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Global stock market trading hours

Global/trading hours · major exchanges · 1 source · data as of 31 Jul 2026

Stock markets are not open all the time. Currency markets more or less are, but equities run in defined sessions, and those sessions are staggered around the world by nothing more deliberate than time zones. Line them all up and global equity trading turns out to be close to continuous, but never quite.

This page has the session times for the major exchanges, in local hours and in GMT, plus where they overlap, where they don't, and which of those gaps actually matters. Tokyo opens at 00:00 GMT and New York closes at 21:00, which leaves roughly two to three hours a day when no major equity market is open at all. The only substantial overlap between two major regions is London and New York, from 14:30 to 16:30 GMT.

I put it together because the hours themselves are the boring part and the gaps between them are where the useful information sits. Overnight moves, price gaps at the open, thin handovers between regions, all of that falls straight out of this table. There's also a divide most people never notice, which is that Asian exchanges close for lunch and Western ones don't, and that has real consequences for where volume clusters. One source, linked at the bottom, and there's a warning about daylight saving further down that you should read before you rely on any GMT figure here.