Market hours
Trading time on FOREX does not stop for a minute. In calendar days they begin the work in the Far East, in New Zealand, passing consistently time zones in Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Moscow, Frankfurt am Main, London and finishing day in New York and Los Angeles.
Readout of time zones is conducted from the zero meridian passing through Greenwich (suburb of London), time carries the name "world time" or GMT - Greenwich Mean Time. Depending on a season (summer or winter), time in the various world financial centers will differ from world time GMT.
| Region | Town | Winter time | Summer time | ||||
| Summer time | |||||||
| Open | Close | Open | Close | ||||
| Asia | Tokyo | 0:00 | 8:00 | 0:00 | 8:00 | ||
| Hong Kong | 1:00 | 9:00 | 1:00 | 9:00 | |||
| Singapore | 1:00 | 9:00 | 1:00 | 9:00 | |||
| Europe | Frankfurt | 6:00 | 14:00 | 5:00 | 13:00 | ||
| Zurich | 6:00 | 14:00 | 5:00 | 13:00 | |||
| Paris | 6:00 | 14:00 | 5:00 | 13:00 | |||
| London | 7:00 | 15:00 | 6:00 | 14:00 | |||
| America | New York | 13:00 | 21:00 | 12:00 | 20:00 | ||
| Chicago | 14:00 | 22:00 | 13:00 | 21:00 | |||
Stock exchanges
Operating time of the basic stock exchanges (local time) and a deviation of local time zone from UTC*
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Stock exchange
(city, country)
| Stock exchange site | Time of trading session* | Deviation from UTC | Deviation from UTC at transition to summer time | Current time** | ||
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New-Zealand stock exchange (Wellington, New Zealand) |
09:00 - 16:45 |
+12 |
+13 |
summer |
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Australian stock exchange (Sydney, Australia) |
09:00 - 16:00 |
+10 |
+11 |
summer |
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Tokyo stock exchange (Tokyo, Japan) |
09:00 - 15:00 |
+9 |
+9 |
- |
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Singapore stock exchange (Singapore, Malaysia) |
09:00 - 17:00 |
+8 |
+8 |
- |
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Shanghai stock exchange (Shanghai, China) |
09:30 - 15:00 |
+8 |
+8 |
- |
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Dubai Financial Market (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) |
11:30 - 17:00 |
+4 |
+4 |
- |
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Johannesburg stock exchange (Johannesburg, Southern Africa) |
09:00 - 17:00 |
+2 |
+2 |
- |
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Moscow interbank currency stock exchange (Moscow, Russia) |
10:30 - 17:45 |
+3 |
+4 |
summer |
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Frankfurt stock exchange (Frankfurt, Germany) |
09:00 - 18:00 |
+1 |
+2 |
summer |
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Swiss stock exchange (Zurich, Switzerland) |
09:00 - 17:30 |
+1 |
+2 |
summer |
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London stock exchange (London, England) |
08:00 - 16:30 |
0 |
+1 |
summer |
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New York stock exchange (New York, the USA) |
09:30 - 16:00 |
-5 |
-4 |
summer |
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Stock exchange of Toronto (Toronto, the USA) |
09:30 - 16:00 |
-5 |
-4 |
summer |
*Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a time standard based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation. Leap seconds are used to allow UTC to closely track UT1, which is mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The difference between UTC and UT1 is not allowed to exceed 0.9 seconds, so if high precision is not required the general term Universal Time (UT) (without a suffix) may be used.
In casual use, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) can be considered equivalent to UTC or UT1 when fractions of a second are not important. Owing to the ambiguity as to whether UTC or UT1 is meant, GMT is generally avoided in technical contexts.
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