CurrenlyzerForex Market Hours in Tokyo (JST)
The forex week opens on Sunday evening and closes on Friday evening, UTC. The table converts every session and the weekly open and close to Tokyo (JST) for today’s date.
If you trade from Tokyo, the sessions are not where the guides put them. The times below are converted for today’s date, including the daylight saving rules, and the busiest hours are shown in your own browser time zone as well.
The week in Tokyo (JST)
The forex week opens on Monday at 06:00 and closes on Saturday at 06:00 (Tokyo (JST), for the coming week; the hours are 21:00 UTC on Sunday and Friday).
The sessions in Tokyo (JST) today
| Session | Opens | Closes | In UTC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 06:00 | 16:00 | 21:00 to 07:00 |
| Tokyo | 09:00 | 19:00 | 00:00 to 10:00 |
| London | 16:00 | 02:00 | 07:00 to 17:00 |
| New York | 22:00 | 08:00 | 13:00 to 23:00 |
| London and New York overlap | 22:00 | 02:00 | 13:00 to 17:00 |
Times are converted for today’s date, so they follow the daylight saving rules of the time zone. The live strip and the chart below show your own browser time.
Which sessions are open right now
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The sessions by hour (UTC)
| Session | Opens (UTC) | Closes (UTC) |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 21:00 | 07:00 |
| Tokyo | 00:00 | 10:00 |
| London | 07:00 | 17:00 |
| New York | 13:00 | 23:00 |
These are the hours Currenlyzer draws on its charts. Sessions move one hour with daylight saving time in New York and London, so check the clock for your own date.
How busy each hour really is
Across the seven major pairs the busiest hour is 12:00–13:00 UTC (1.57 times a normal hour), followed by 14:00–15:00 UTC and 13:00–14:00 UTC. The quietest hour is 20:00–21:00 UTC (0.60 times a normal hour). The sessions have names, but the hours inside them are not equal, and the overlap of London and New York is where the chart usually rises.
How to use this table
Look for the row you care about, note the local time, and put it in your calendar. Remember that your time zone and the sessions both change with daylight saving time, on different dates, so the times in the table are for today’s date and may differ by an hour in a few weeks. The activity chart above shows the hours in UTC; the live strip and the highlighted hours convert to the time zone of your browser.
The busiest window in your time
For most major pairs the busiest window is the overlap of London and New York. The table gives it in your time zone. For yen pairs there is a second window in the Tokyo session, for the Australian and New Zealand dollars the Sydney and Tokyo hours.
How to check this in Currenlyzer
- Open the scanner. It lists every symbol with its reading for the current hour: Busy, Normal or Quiet.
- Sort by the busiest now or by the usual range, and filter by currency.
- Click a symbol to open its analyzer, where the hours of every weekday and the number of days counted are shown.
How we count
The numbers come from the live price feed of Currenlyzer: one-minute prices are built into hourly and daily candles, all in UTC. The range of a candle is its high minus its low. We use finished candles only, and we leave out hours when the market is closed and days that are too thin to count (the first hours of the Sunday open, short holiday days), so a closed hour is never averaged in as zero. Averages cover the last 30 days for the daily range and the last 60 days for hours, unless the text says otherwise. Pips follow the dashboard: one pip is 0.0001 on most pairs, 0.01 on yen pairs and 0.10 on gold. The same method is used in the dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
What time does the forex market open in Tokyo?
The week opens on Sunday evening UTC. The table gives the local time for today’s date.
What time does it close?
On Friday evening UTC. The table gives the local time.
Which hours are busiest in Tokyo?
The overlap of London and New York is the busiest window for most major pairs. The table gives it in Tokyo (JST).
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