Exchange identity
split-session exchange day
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is modeled in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, with exchange-local zone Asia/Hong_Kong, currency HKD, and 2 regular session windows.
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HKEX
Follow Hong Kong cash-market hours, including the midday break, and see when HKEX opens and closes in major cities worldwide.
Schedule reviewed Apr 30, 2026. Regular sessions and recurring closures are content-reviewed; the live open/closed badge is computed from the exchange timezone. This page is not investment or trading advice and should be checked against official exchange notices before trading.
Live values rendered at Jun 4, 12:46 PM UTC.
Live market countdown
HKEX opens in
Compact: --:--:--
Opens at (market local)
Friday, Jun 5 · 9:30 AM
Asia/Hong_Kong
In your local timezone
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Resolving timezone…
Regular session: 9:30 AM–4:00 PM Hong Kong time
Client countdowns use the regular-session model from the server snapshot; refresh near open/close boundaries and verify official exchange notices for half-days, halts, or emergency changes.
Regular-session scope
Trading days are modeled as Monday-Friday in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The session clock is evaluated in the exchange timezone, not the viewer’s browser timezone.
Modeled session windows
2
Modeled regular time
5h 30m
Trading weekdays
5
HKEX times are shown in the exchange timezone, Asia/Hong_Kong. Daylight-saving changes are handled through the IANA zone database. When the exchange changes offset, converted city times can shift even though the local exchange session label stays the same.
The model includes curated full-day closures from HKEX / trading calendar. Midday breaks are represented as separate sessions. Half-days, opening/closing auctions, pre-market or after-hours trading, halts, severe-weather arrangements, and emergency notices should be checked with the exchange before trading.
New Year's Day
Thu, Jan 1, 2026Full-day closure for New Year's Day.
Good Friday
Fri, Apr 3, 2026Full-day closure for Good Friday.
Easter Monday
Mon, Apr 6, 2026Full-day closure for Easter Monday.
Labour Day
Fri, May 1, 2026Full-day closure for Labour Day.
The page is optimized for regular-session planning and timezone conversion. It should not be used as a trading instruction, brokerage clock, or substitute for the official exchange notice feed.
Official sources: HKEX securities-market trading hours and HKEX / trading calendar. This is a scheduling reference, not investment or trading advice.
Market evidence
This page is kept because the exchange has enough modeled and source-visible signals to answer an hours query without pretending to be a broker screen: exchange identity, official source trail, calendar coverage, city conversions, overlap context, and a visible planning boundary.
Evidence score
12/12
split-session exchange day
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is modeled in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, with exchange-local zone Asia/Hong_Kong, currency HKD, and 2 regular session windows.
1 source host
Visible source hosts: hkex.com.hk. They define the boundary for hours, holidays, early closes, and special notices.
8 full closures, 3 half-days
The forward 12-month model estimates 253 regular trading days and 27h 30m of regular trading per week before holiday/half-day adjustments.
closed at snapshot
HKEX was closed at render time; the next modeled regular open is Friday, Jun 5 · 09:30 AM.
stable exchange-local offset
Asia/Hong_Kong does not observe seasonal DST in the forward model; remaining conversion risk comes from the viewer city, not this exchange-local clock.
10 city views, 4 overlap peers
2 other tracked markets were open at the page snapshot. City and overlap cards support planning, not trading recommendations.
Market workflow
These notes make the page more specific to HKEX while keeping the boundary clear: regular sessions, modeled closures, and local-time planning are covered; investment advice, instrument calendars, execution cutoffs, and emergency notices are not.
HKEX is closed in the page snapshot. Use the next-open timer for planning, then confirm unusual closures or notices on HKEX securities-market trading hours.
HKEX is a split-session exchange day; the midday break means an apparent same-day market window can contain a closed interval.
HKEX has 8 tracked full-day closures and 3 tracked half-days in the forward window, against about 253 regular trading days (3.1% of trading days).
Asia/Hong_Kong stays stable in the forward model, so converted-time drift usually comes from cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, London.
Compare HKEX with NYSE, Nasdaq, LSE, JPX Tokyo when you need overlap minutes; use a city card when you need a local open/close answer.
Hong Kong has an airport-country page, useful when a market-hours check turns into a travel or arrival-side local-time question.
Market-specific dossier
This dossier binds HKEX to its exchange-local timezone, regular session model, official source trail, forward closure density, city translations, and cross-market overlap set.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX); Hong Kong, Hong Kong; currency HKD; tags hong kong market, hkex hours, asia stocks
weekday model 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; regular window 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM; phases Morning session 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM local; Afternoon session 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM local; weekly regular load 27h 30m
8 full-day closures; 3 half-day sessions; 253 estimated regular trading days; 3.1% of trading days closed
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day on Wed, Jul 1, 2026; National Day on Thu, Oct 1, 2026; Christmas Day on Fri, Dec 25, 2026; Boxing Day (observed) on Fri, Dec 25, 2026; New Year's Day on Fri, Jan 1, 2027; Good Friday on Fri, Mar 26, 2027; Easter Monday on Mon, Mar 29, 2027; Labour Day (observed) on Fri, Apr 30, 2027
NYSE: No same-day cash-session overlap (No overlap); Nasdaq: No same-day cash-session overlap (No overlap); LSE: 1h (07:00 to 08:00 UTC); JPX Tokyo: 1h 30m (05:00 to 06:30 UTC)
New York City: 09:30 PM to 12:00 AM (-12h); Los Angeles: 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM (-15h); London: 02:30 AM to 05:00 AM (-7h); Paris: 03:30 AM to 06:00 AM (-6h); Mumbai: 07:00 AM to 09:30 AM (-2h 30m); Singapore: 09:30 AM to 12:00 PM (+0h); Tokyo: 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM (+1h); Sydney: 11:30 AM to 02:00 PM (+2h)
snapshot date 2026-06-04; snapshot closed; snapshot next open Friday, Jun 5 · 09:30 AM
Source and model boundaries
Official schedule source
HKEX securities-market trading hourshttps://www.hkex.com.hk/Services/Trading-hours-and-Severe-Weather-Arrangements/Trading-Hours/Securities-Market
Holiday calendar source
HKEX / trading calendarTracked closure calendar for the main Hong Kong market holidays. Check the official HKEX schedule for special notices and exchange arrangements.
Timezone model
Asia/Hong_Kong · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
Exchange-local time does not observe seasonal DST in the forward model.
Scope boundary
Regular sessions and modeled closures
Pre-market, after-hours, auctions, halts, emergency notices, instrument-level calendars, and broker execution cutoffs are intentionally not modeled.
Official-source checkpoints
The live clock is designed for schedule planning. These exchange-specific checkpoints keep the page precise without turning market-hours content into trading, legal, or broker execution advice.
HKEX securities trading is modeled as morning and afternoon continuous sessions. Opening auctions, closing auctions, and product-specific windows are not treated as regular open-now time.
Check HKEX securities-market trading hoursHong Kong severe-weather arrangements can alter normal exchange operations, so this page keeps a visible official-source boundary for typhoon or black-rainstorm cases.
Check HKEX trading hours and severe weather arrangementsMarket planning depth
Session phases reference
These are the regular-session windows tracked for HKEX, expressed in the exchange-local clock. Pre-market, post-market, opening or closing auctions, and other phase windows are not modeled here and should be checked on HKEX securities-market trading hours.
Morning session
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM local
01:30 - 04:00 UTC
2h 30m window
Part of a split trading day; the gap between phases is not open trading time.
Afternoon session
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM local
05:00 - 08:00 UTC
3h window
Part of a split trading day; the gap between phases is not open trading time.
Weekly regular-session load: about 27h 30m across 5 trading days per week. Asia/Hong_Kong does not observe seasonal DST, so converted viewer-local times stay stable year-round.
Year-of-trading-calendar
The forward 12-month sweep returned 8 tracked full-day closures and 3 tracked half-day sessions against an estimated 253 regular trading days (3.1% of trading days). Auction-only days, halts, and emergency notices are not modeled — confirm them on HKEX / trading calendar.
Full-day closures
8
Half-day sessions
3
Early-close days in the next 12 months
Estimated trading days
253
3.1% of trading days closed
July 2026
October 2026
December 2026
January 2027
March 2027
April 2027
Half-day sessions
Scheduled early-close trading days in the next 12 months. Times are exchange-local (Asia/Hong_Kong). Confirm against HKEX / trading calendar before relying on these for execution.
Christmas Eve
HKEX securities market closes after the morning session at 12:00 HKT on Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday.
Thu, Dec 24, 2026
Early close 12:00 PM
New Year's Eve
HKEX securities market closes after the morning session at 12:00 HKT on New Year's Eve when it falls on a weekday.
Thu, Dec 31, 2026
Early close 12:00 PM
Lunar New Year Eve
HKEX securities market closes after the morning session at 12:00 HKT on the eve of Lunar New Year.
Fri, Feb 5, 2027
Early close 12:00 PM
Source: HKEX / trading calendar. Trading-day count is an estimate from the modeled weekday schedule and does not subtract half-day sessions, halts, or short-notice closures.
Snapshot concurrent markets
These exchanges shared regular-session minutes with HKEX when the page snapshot was rendered. Use this as a cross-market planning list, then confirm live status with each exchange page and official exchange notices near session boundaries.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Exchange-local live clock · snapshot date Thursday, June 4, 2026
Timezone
GMT+8
Asia/Hong_Kong · UTC+08:00
Regular schedule
Morning session: 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM · Afternoon session: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Next open
Friday, Jun 5 · 09:30 AM
Snapshot current session
Market is closed
HKEX is a major Asia market-hours reference for Hong Kong equities, China access, and cross-market overlap checks.
Official source: HKEX securities-market trading hours
These city-local pages are the fastest way to answer “what time does this exchange open where I am?”
United States
Morning session: 09:30 PM to 12:00 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -12h
United States
Morning session: 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -15h
United Kingdom
Morning session: 02:30 AM to 05:00 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -7h
France
Morning session: 03:30 AM to 06:00 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -6h
India
Morning session: 07:00 AM to 09:30 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -2h 30m
Singapore
Morning session: 09:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +0h
Japan
Morning session: 10:30 AM to 01:00 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +1h
Australia
Morning session: 11:30 AM to 02:00 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +2h
Exchange location
The globe highlights HKEX’s home exchange on the world map. Drag to spin and explore timezone neighbors with live clocks.
Drag to spin. Release to glide. Click a pin to see that city's local time.
Upcoming closures
Major recurring closures we track for HKEX. Special notices, half-days, and emergency closures should still be checked on the official calendar.
New Year's Day
Full-day closure for New Year's Day.
Good Friday
Full-day closure for Good Friday.
Easter Monday
Full-day closure for Easter Monday.
Labour Day
Full-day closure for Labour Day.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
Full-day closure for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day.
This tracked calendar covers the exchange's major full-day closures so the open-now status and next open countdown stay trustworthy on market holidays.
Next tracked closure: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
Wed, Jul 1, 2026
New Year's Day
Thu, Jan 1, 2026
Full-day closure for New Year's Day.
Good Friday
Fri, Apr 3, 2026
Full-day closure for Good Friday.
Easter Monday
Mon, Apr 6, 2026
Full-day closure for Easter Monday.
Labour Day
Fri, May 1, 2026
Full-day closure for Labour Day.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
Wed, Jul 1, 2026
Full-day closure for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day.
Source: HKEX / trading calendar. This calendar is focused on major recurring closures and is not a substitute for the exchange's current special notices.
Overlap
HKEX and NYSE do not share a live regular-session window on the next common trading day, so teams usually rely on hand-offs rather than simultaneous cash-market trading.
Overlap
HKEX and Nasdaq do not share a live regular-session window on the next common trading day, so teams usually rely on hand-offs rather than simultaneous cash-market trading.
Overlap
HKEX and LSE share about 1h of regular-session overlap on the next common trading day, which is the cleanest window for live cross-market monitoring.
Overlap
HKEX and JPX Tokyo share about 1h 30m of regular-session overlap on the next common trading day, which is the cleanest window for live cross-market monitoring.