Sydney session

Sydney opens the trading week and sets the tone for the Asian hours. It is the thinnest of the four majors, which makes its ranges small and its spreads wide — and makes any move that does happen worth a second look, because it happened without much help.

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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	—	—	—

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When the Sydney session runs

The Sydney session is defined by the hours Sydney keeps: 08:00 to 17:00 local. That never changes. What changes is where those hours land on your clock.

Length, most of the year

9 hours

UTC, northern winter

21:00 – 06:00

UTC, northern summer

22:00 – 07:00

SAST, all year round trip

23:00 / 00:00

What the Sydney session is like

AUD and NZD pairs see their most active hours here, because this is when their domestic data lands.
Ranges are narrow. A strategy calibrated on London volatility will find nothing to do, and a mean-reversion approach often finds more.
The first two hours of the week are Sydney alone. Gaps from weekend news get filled — or do not — in very thin liquidity.

What else is open while it runs

Measured on a northern-summer day. The figures shift by an hour when the hemispheres fall out of step, which is exactly why the live clock above is the authority and this table is the summary.
Session	Hours shared	What that means
Tokyo	7h	A long overlap: liquidity from both centres, and the deepest book of the day.
London	none	No overlap — these two never trade at the same time.
New York	none	No overlap — these two never trade at the same time.

Sydney session in every major timezone

A row where the two columns match is a timezone that moves in step with Sydney — or one where neither moves at all.
Timezone	Northern winter	Northern summer
SAST South Africa	23:00 – 08:00	00:00 – 09:00
GMT Reference time	21:00 – 06:00	22:00 – 07:00
EST / EDT United States	16:00 – 01:00	18:00 – 03:00
IST India	02:30 – 11:30	03:30 – 12:30
GST United Arab Emirates	01:00 – 10:00	02:00 – 11:00
CET / CEST Europe	22:00 – 07:00	00:00 – 09:00
EET / EEST Europe	23:00 – 08:00	01:00 – 10:00
JST Japan	06:00 – 15:00	07:00 – 16:00
AEST / AEDT Australia	08:00 – 17:00	08:00 – 17:00
WAT West Africa	22:00 – 07:00	23:00 – 08:00
EAT East Africa	00:00 – 09:00	01:00 – 10:00
PST / PDT United States	13:00 – 22:00	15:00 – 00:00

The other sessions

Tokyo sessionThe Asian session proper. JPY pairs lead; ranges are defined and often respected.London sessionThe largest session by volume. Most of the day’s range is built here.New York sessionUS data, US equities, and the close that ends the trading day.London – New York overlapThe hours London and New York are open together — the deepest liquidity of the day.

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