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Forex market hours in GMT
Every session time on this page is shown in Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0, all year).
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Today, in your timezone
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Sessions in GMT
| Session | Status | Your time | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney08:00 – 17:00 Sydney | — | — | — |
| Tokyo09:00 – 18:00 Tokyo | — | — | — |
| London08:00 – 17:00 London | — | — | — |
| New York08:00 – 17:00 New York | — | — | — |
| London – New York overlapthe busiest window of the day | — | — | — |
Candle close and rollover
Triple swap tonight. The close that ends the Wednesday session carries three days of swap, because the spot value date rolls over the weekend. A position you would happily hold through any other rollover costs — or pays — three times as much through this one.
The market is shut for the weekend, so no candle is forming. Trading resumes in —.
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What GMT is, and what it does to your session times
GMT here means the fixed UTC reference, not London local time. London runs on GMT in winter and British Summer Time in summer, so from late March to late October the two are an hour apart — which is exactly the mistake most session tables make.
The GMT trading day, week and year
This page is for anyone who keeps time in UTC, whether that is a trading server, a trade log or a habit. In UTC the daily candle closes at 22:00 through the northern winter and at 21:00 through the northern summer, and the dividing dates are the ones New York uses: 8 March and 1 November in 2026, 14 March and 7 November in 2027. London moves on its own dates, 29 March and 25 October in 2026, so its 08:00 open sits at 08:00 UTC in winter and 07:00 UTC in summer.
Those two calendars matter most when your records are in UTC. A log keyed to UTC shows the London open and the candle close each drifting by an hour twice a year, on different weekends, and between 8 and 29 March 2026, and again from 25 October to 1 November, the candle closes at 21:00 UTC while London still opens at 08:00 UTC. A year of results grouped by a fixed UTC window for the London session mixes these regimes unless it is split at the change dates.
The London Stock Exchange trades continuously from 08:00 to 16:30 London time, which is 08:00 to 16:30 UTC in winter and 07:00 to 15:30 UTC in summer, with auctions either side. The American data calendar, which clusters at 08:30 New York time, lands at 13:30 UTC in winter and 12:30 UTC in summer, an hour before the US equity open.
Read against a 09:00 to 17:00 UTC day, London covers the whole morning and New York joins at 13:00 UTC in winter and 12:00 UTC in summer, so a UTC working day spends its afternoon in the overlap. Tokyo has closed by then all year, because its 18:00 close is 09:00 UTC. The forex week closes at 22:00 UTC on Friday in the northern winter and 21:00 UTC in the northern summer, and reopens at the same hour on Sunday, which is the time to use when a broker's weekend gap needs placing on a UTC chart.
Session times in GMT
| Session | GMT, northern winter | GMT, northern summer | Moves? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney 08:00 – 17:00 Sydney | 21:00 – 06:00 | 22:00 – 07:00 | Yes |
| Tokyo 09:00 – 18:00 Tokyo | 00:00 – 09:00 | 00:00 – 09:00 | No |
| London 08:00 – 17:00 London | 08:00 – 17:00 | 07:00 – 16:00 | Yes |
| New York 08:00 – 17:00 New York | 13:00 – 22:00 | 12:00 – 21:00 | Yes |
| London – New York overlap the busiest window of the day | 13:00 – 17:00 | 12:00 – 16:00 | Length changes too |
| Daily candle close 17:00 New York, where swap is charged | 22:00 | 21:00 | Yes |
Exchange hours in GMT
| Exchange | GMT, winter | GMT, summer | Local hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| JSE | 07:00 – 14:50 | 07:00 – 14:50 | 09:00 – 16:50 Johannesburg |
| NYSE | 14:30 – 21:00 | 13:30 – 20:00 | 09:30 – 16:00 New York |
| LSE | 08:00 – 16:30 | 07:00 – 15:30 | 08:00 – 16:30 London |
The week's fixed events in GMT
In UTC every London-set event moves with London's clock, so the Bank of England's midday decision is 12:00 UTC in winter and 11:00 UTC in summer, and the 16:00 fix is 16:00 or 15:00. The American events move on New York's dates instead: the jobs report at 13:30 or 12:30 UTC and the Federal Reserve at 19:00 or 18:00. The Tankan is the only one of the seven that never moves in UTC, at 23:50 on the evening before the Tokyo date it carries, because Japan keeps one clock.
| Event | GMT, January | GMT, July |
|---|---|---|
| Australian data, 11:30 Canberra | 00:30 | 01:30 |
| Reserve Bank of Australia decision, 2.30 pm Sydney | 03:30 | 04:30 |
| Bank of Japan Tankan, 8:50 Tokyo | 23:50 day before | 23:50 day before |
| Bank of England decision, midday London | 12:00 | 11:00 |
| US jobs report, 8:30 New York | 13:30 | 12:30 |
| WM/Reuters closing rates, 16:00 London | 16:00 | 15:00 |
| Federal Reserve statement, 2:00 pm New York | 19:00 | 18:00 |
Every other clock
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