Forex session overlap times in your time zone

In an overlap, two trading centres are open at once

An overlap is when two trading centres are both in business hours. It runs from the later city’s opening to the earlier city’s close. Why it matters, more prices and orders arrive at once, so a weak connection shows then.

The table gives each overlap in city time and in UTC, so you can put it in any calendar.

The base hours come from Axi’s session table. The seasonal UTC windows are our arithmetic from each city’s clock rules. Session hours are a convention, and other sources differ by an hour.

So treat each edge as roughly an hour either way.

Find the overlap in your own time, so you are ready before it starts

For London and New York, read your zone from this table. We worked it out from the UTC hours above and each zone’s rules in the IANA time zone database.

For any other zone, or another overlap, use a world clock.

Clock changes move each overlap by an hour, twice a year

Each session follows local business hours. So its UTC window moves an hour when that city changes its clocks. Japan does not change its clocks at all.

The US changes on the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November (NIST’s clock rules). The UK changes on the last Sunday of March and October (GOV.UK clock changes). Between those dates, the overlap lasts five hours.

So a fixed reminder in UTC can be an hour out for half the year.

Which forex session is open now lists each city’s hours and change dates.

London and New York trade the most forex, and the US jobs report lands in their overlap

They are the two largest centres. The UK handles about 38% of foreign exchange trading and the US about 19% (BIS survey, April 2025). The US jobs report also lands in the overlap, at 8:30 am New York time (BLS schedule).

So it is the overlap to test your connection in.

Test your connection in an overlap and outside one

This page tells you when two trading centres are both open, not how your connection behaves then. For that, check your delay in an overlap and outside one. Check your delay hour by hour shows how.

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