World Stock Market Hours
Nine major exchanges, live: which ones are trading right now, when the next one opens or closes, and what that means in your own local time.
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About This Data
Each row shows a market's standard regular trading session, converted live from that exchange's own local time — the same underlying technique as the rest of this site, reading from the IANA Time Zone Database rather than a fixed table of UTC times. This matters because exchange hours are tied to local wall-clock time, not a fixed UTC offset: when a region's clocks shift for daylight saving, the equivalent UTC time for "9:30am local" shifts right along with it, and this page follows that automatically.
What isn't computed live is each exchange's session schedule and holiday calendar themselves — those are small, hand-verified tables, since there's no live API for either the way there is for timezone offsets. Each exchange's 2026 full-market-closure dates are built in and checked against the current date automatically, sourced from that exchange's own published calendar rather than a national-holiday proxy (which doesn't always match — Good Friday isn't a US federal holiday, but the NYSE still closes for it). It's also worth knowing exchange hours themselves do occasionally change: the Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its afternoon close from 3:00pm to 3:30pm JST in November 2024, its first change to closing time in 70 years. Holiday data is current as of August 27, 2026 and gets re-verified annually; scheduled early or half-day closes (like the day after Thanksgiving) aren't tracked.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which stock markets does this page cover?
Nine major exchanges: the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), London Stock Exchange (LSE),
Euronext Paris, Deutsche Börse Xetra (Frankfurt), National Stock Exchange of India
(NSE), Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Tokyo Stock
Exchange (TSE), and Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
Does this account for exchange holidays or early closes?
Holidays, yes — each exchange's own published 2026 full-market-closure calendar is
built in (not a national-holiday proxy, since those don't always match; Good Friday
isn't a US federal holiday but the NYSE still closes for it). Scheduled early or
half-day closes aren't tracked. Holiday data is current as of August 27, 2026 and needs
re-verifying annually — always check the exchange's own calendar for anything
time-sensitive.
Why do some markets have a midday break and others don't?
Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong all pause trading for a traditional midday break between
a morning and afternoon session — a long-standing structure across several major Asian
markets. Western exchanges like the NYSE, LSE, and the European markets run one
continuous session instead.
How is "open now" calculated?
Each exchange's current local time is read live from the IANA Time Zone Database, then
compared against its session hours and the current day of the week — markets are always
closed Saturday and Sunday regardless of session hours. The status updates automatically
every 30 seconds.