US stock market hours for world time zones

US stock market hours dey run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. New York time, Monday to Friday. If you convert am to other clocks, na 14:30 to 21:00 for London, 21:30 to 04:00 the next morning for Singapore, and 22:30 to 05:00 for Tokyo, as of July 2026. This page map the regular and extended US sessions across major world time zones, explain the daylight saving changes wey shift the conversion two times every year, and show how holiday calendar fit affect am.

US market hours for major world time zones

Everything wey US market do dey follow Eastern Time, wey be the clock New York dey use. Eastern Time dey run at UTC-5 for winter and UTC-4 during daylight saving. The panel below convert the four boundaries of one US trading day: 4:00 a.m. premarket start, 9:30 a.m. opening bell, 4:00 p.m. closing bell, and 8:00 p.m. after-hours cutoff, into ten local clocks. The rows na fixed example for July 2026, when New York dey use daylight time. Winter figures go come later for this page.

SELECT
    w.1 AS city,
    w.2 AS local_premarket_open,
    w.3 AS local_regular_open,
    w.4 AS local_regular_close,
    w.5 AS local_after_hours_close,
    w.6 AS hours_ahead_of_new_york
FROM
(
    SELECT arrayJoin([
        ('Los Angeles', '01:00', '06:30', '13:00', '17:00', -3),
        ('New York',    '04:00', '09:30', '16:00', '20:00',  0),
        ('Sao Paulo',   '05:00', '10:30', '17:00', '21:00',  1),
        ('London',      '09:00', '14:30', '21:00', '01:00',  5),
        ('Frankfurt',   '10:00', '15:30', '22:00', '02:00',  6),
        ('Moscow',      '15:00', '20:30', '03:00', '07:00',  7),
        ('Dubai',       '12:00', '17:30', '00:00', '04:00',  8),
        ('Singapore',   '16:00', '21:30', '04:00', '08:00', 12),
        ('Tokyo',       '17:00', '22:30', '05:00', '09:00', 13),
        ('Sydney',      '18:00', '23:30', '06:00', '10:00', 14)
    ]) AS w
)

Read the last column first. Singapore dey 12 hours ahead of New York during this period, and the opening bell dey happen there at 21:30 local time, while the closing bell dey happen at 04:00 the next morning. Tokyo dey one hour further ahead at 13. London, wey dey 5 hours ahead, get the easiest conversion among the ten: US market open at 14:30 leave full London afternoon alongside New York morning, and US close at 21:00 happen before midnight.

The extended windows make the same trading day much longer. Sydney reader wey follow the full electronic session go see am start at 18:00 for evening and end at 10:00 the next morning, crossing local midnight for sixteen hours. For Los Angeles, wey dey three hours behind New York, the full regular session fit enter one local working day, from 06:30 to 13:00.

Which session you dey convert?

One US trading day get three windows, and conversion only useful if e clear which one e dey convert.

• Regular session, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. Na the six and a half hours between the opening and closing bells. Official opening and closing prices come from auctions for both ends.
• Premarket, 4:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET. Electronic trading before the opening bell.
• After-hours, 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET. Electronic trading after the closing bell.

Na the regular session index levels, closing price for your statement, and evening news dey describe. The two extended windows get thinner trading, wider bid-ask spreads, and retail brokers usually allow limit orders only. Premarket and after-hours trading measure those differences on the tape. For every boundary wey dem state clearly in Eastern Time, see stock market hours.

Daylight saving dey shift half of the conversions

US market time-zone conversions no dey remain the same throughout the year, and na one side dey cause the instability. United States dey observe daylight saving from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. For 2026, na March 8 to November 1. Plenty Asian countries no dey observe am at all. Europe get its own daylight saving dates. Three patterns come out from this mix.

• Europe mostly dey move together with New York. London and Frankfurt shift their clocks for the same direction, so their local reading of the 9:30 a.m. bell remain 14:30 and 15:30 for most of the year.
• Asia no dey move, so the conversion dey move. Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai keep one clock throughout the year. When New York move forward, local time for US open become one hour earlier in each city.
• Sydney dey move the opposite way. Australian eastern daylight time dey run during southern summer, roughly October to April. Na the opposite part of the calendar from the US shift. The two changes add together instead of cancelling out.

SELECT
    d.1 AS city,
    d.2 AS january_local_open,
    d.3 AS july_local_open,
    d.4 AS hours_moved_across_the_year
FROM
(
    SELECT arrayJoin([
        ('London',    '14:30', '14:30', 0),
        ('Frankfurt', '15:30', '15:30', 0),
        ('Mumbai',    '20:00', '19:00', 1),
        ('Singapore', '22:30', '21:30', 1),
        ('Tokyo',     '23:30', '22:30', 1),
        ('Sydney',    '01:30', '23:30', 2)
    ]) AS d
)

The last column show the size of the yearly swing. London and Frankfurt read 0: their January and July conversions dey identical. Tokyo read 1, with the opening bell moving from 23:30 in January to 22:30 in July. Sydney read 2, the widest swing among the six, with the bell at 01:30 the next morning in January and 23:30 that same evening in July.

The weeks wey Europe and US clocks no agree

United Kingdom and European Union dey change their clocks on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. United States dey change am on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November. Two mismatch periods happen every year. For 2026, dem run from March 8 to March 29, when New York don enter daylight time but London never enter, and from October 25 to November 1, when London don move back but New York never move. During both periods, London time for the 9:30 a.m. bell na 13:30 instead of 14:30, and every US session boundary reach one hour earlier than London reader expect. Calendar entries and price alerts wey you set months ahead go shift by that one hour two times every year.

Overlap with your local exchange

Local exchange hours and US hours overlap only for some places. London Stock Exchange dey run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time, and its final two hours overlap with the first two hours of New York regular session in July 2026. Tokyo Stock Exchange dey run from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. local time, with lunch break, entirely inside US overnight period. Reader for Singapore or Tokyo wey wan trade US regular session go face late night, early morning, or order wey remain active.

Order wey you place while US market dey closed no just wait quietly. Market order wey enter overnight go queue for the next opening auction, and the price wey e meet na the price set by traders wey show up at 9:30 a.m. ET, no be the last after-hours print. Mutual fund orders dey behave differently: dem execute once every day at the net asset value calculated after the 4:00 p.m. close, no matter the local time wey you send am, as when mutual funds trade explain.

The days wey this conversion no apply

US exchanges dey close for weekends, roughly ten full holidays every year, and early at 1:00 p.m. ET on some scheduled half days. On half day, every boundary for the first panel move three hours earlier, and after-hours trading end around 5:00 p.m. ET instead of 8:00 p.m. Holidays for other countries no affect US calendar: US-listed stock fit trade on Boxing Day and during Golden Week, but e no go trade on Thanksgiving. Market holidays and early closes get the dated calendar.

US market hours worldwide FAQ

What time US stock market dey open for UK?

The 9:30 a.m. New York open dey reach 2:30 p.m. London time for most of the year, while the 4:00 p.m. close dey reach 9:00 p.m. For about three weeks in late March and one week in late October, when both regions never align their clock changes, the open dey happen at 1:30 p.m. London time instead.

What time US stock market dey open for Tokyo and Singapore?

As of July 2026, New York open dey reach 10:30 p.m. for Tokyo and 9:30 p.m. for Singapore. The close dey happen at 5:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. the next morning. Between early November and early March, each local time move one hour later.

US market dey open at the same local time throughout the year?

Only for places wey change their clocks on the same dates as New York. UK and continental Europe keep the same conversion for most of the year. Asian cities wey no observe daylight saving see the conversion move one hour two times every year, while Sydney see two hours.

How I fit convert US market hours to my own time zone?

Take 9:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Check whether New York dey use UTC-5, from early November to early March, or UTC-4, from early March to early November. Then add your own offset from UTC. The panels above don do that calculation for ten cities as fixed July 2026 reference.

I fit trade US stocks from overseas outside regular hours?

Extended-hours sessions dey run from 4:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET. This cover larger part of the hours wey people for different countries dey awake, but access depend on wetin your broker support. These windows get fewer participants and wider spreads than regular session.

Market hours na schedule, and schedule dey convert cleanly once you know the clock wey dem use write am. To measure how session really behave for any window wey you choose, run the queries yourself on the Strasmore terminal.