Tools Forex market hours
Live session map

Forex market hours

See each major dealing centre in its own time zone, the current overlap, and the next opening or closing event on a 24-hour timeline.

Clock settings

Session calculations follow each city’s daylight-saving rules automatically.

Custom session hours

Hours are local to each city. Use these to match a broker or research convention.

Current core-session overlapCalculating…

Conventional Monday–Friday liquidity windows.

Finding the next session change…

Your local time
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24-hour session timeline

Today in your local time

Major forex session timelineBars show the Sydney, Tokyo, London, and New York core sessions over a 24-hour day.
SydneyAustralia/Sydney
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TokyoAsia/Tokyo
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LondonEurope/London
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New YorkAmerica/New_York
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Why overlap matters

Forex trades throughout the working week, but liquidity is not constant. London and New York overlap often concentrates activity in EUR-, GBP-, and USD-linked pairs. Quieter handovers and rollover can produce wider spreads or thinner order books.

Check costs again near a session change

A mathematically correct position size can still lose more than planned when spread or slippage expands. Use the position size calculator with a realistic slippage allowance.