Exchange identity
single-session exchange with early-close risk
London Stock Exchange (LSE) is modeled in London, United Kingdom, with exchange-local zone Europe/London, currency GBP, and 1 regular session window.
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LSE
See whether the London market is open now, the next LSE session, and how London hours line up with New York, Dubai, Singapore, and more.
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 May 25, 5:18 AM UTC.
Live market countdown
LSE closed for Spring bank holiday
Compact: --:--:--
Opens at (market local)
Tuesday, May 26 · 8:00 AM
Europe/London
In your local timezone
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Resolving timezone…
Regular session: 8:00 AM–4:30 PM London 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 London, United Kingdom. The session clock is evaluated in the exchange timezone, not the viewer’s browser timezone.
Modeled session windows
1
Modeled regular time
8h 30m
Trading weekdays
5
LSE times are shown in the exchange timezone, Europe/London. 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 London Stock Exchange / holiday calendar. It does not model a separate lunch break for this exchange. 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.
Early May bank holiday
Mon, May 4, 2026Full-day closure for Early May bank holiday.
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: London Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange / holiday 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
single-session exchange with early-close risk
London Stock Exchange (LSE) is modeled in London, United Kingdom, with exchange-local zone Europe/London, currency GBP, and 1 regular session window.
1 source host
Visible source hosts: londonstockexchange.com. They define the boundary for hours, holidays, early closes, and special notices.
8 full closures, 2 half-days
The forward 12-month model estimates 253 regular trading days and 42h 30m of regular trading per week before holiday/half-day adjustments.
closed at snapshot
LSE was closed at render time; the next modeled regular open is Tuesday, May 26 · 08:00 AM.
DST-sensitive conversions
Europe/London observes seasonal DST in the forward model, so viewer-city conversions can move even when the exchange-local session stays fixed.
10 city views, 4 overlap peers
4 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 LSE 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.
LSE is closed in the page snapshot. Use the next-open timer for planning, then confirm unusual closures or notices on London Stock Exchange.
LSE is a single-session exchange with early-close risk; the regular window is simpler than a split-session exchange, but auctions and extended phases remain outside this model.
LSE has 8 tracked full-day closures and 2 tracked half-days in the forward window, against about 253 regular trading days (3.1% of trading days).
Anchor the exchange session to Europe/London; converted times for New York City, Los Angeles, London can shift when either side changes DST.
Compare LSE with NYSE, Nasdaq, JPX Tokyo, NSE India when you need overlap minutes; use a city card when you need a local open/close answer.
United Kingdom 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 LSE to its exchange-local timezone, regular session model, official source trail, forward closure density, city translations, and cross-market overlap set.
London Stock Exchange (LSE); London, United Kingdom; currency GBP; tags london, uk stocks, europe market hours, lse open
weekday model 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; regular window 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM; phases Regular session 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM local; weekly regular load 42h 30m
8 full-day closures; 2 half-day sessions; 253 estimated regular trading days; 3.1% of trading days closed
Spring bank holiday on Mon, May 25, 2026; Summer bank holiday on Mon, Aug 31, 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; Early May bank holiday on Mon, May 3, 2027
NYSE: 2h (13:30 to 15:30 UTC); Nasdaq: 2h (13:30 to 15:30 UTC); JPX Tokyo: No same-day cash-session overlap (No overlap); NSE India: 3h (07:00 to 10:00 UTC)
New York City: 03:00 AM to 11:30 AM (-5h); Los Angeles: 12:00 AM to 08:30 AM (-8h); London: 08:00 AM to 04:30 PM (+0h); Paris: 09:00 AM to 05:30 PM (+1h); Mumbai: 12:30 PM to 09:00 PM (+4h 30m); Singapore: 03:00 PM to 11:30 PM (+7h); Tokyo: 04:00 PM to 12:30 AM (+8h); Sydney: 05:00 PM to 01:30 AM (+9h)
snapshot date 2026-05-25; snapshot closed; snapshot next open Tuesday, May 26 · 08:00 AM
Source and model boundaries
Holiday calendar source
London Stock Exchange / holiday calendarTracked closure calendar for the main UK exchange holidays. Always confirm late-breaking notices on the official London Stock Exchange calendar.
Timezone model
Europe/London · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
Exchange-local time observes 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.
The page models the LSE main cash-equities day in Europe/London. UK bank-holiday closures and December half-days are kept separate from the live open-now calculation.
Check London Stock Exchange business daysThe exchange-local session stays on London clock time, while converted times for New York, Dubai, Singapore, and Sydney move when either side changes DST.
Check London Stock Exchange business daysMarket planning depth
Session phases reference
These are the regular-session windows tracked for LSE, 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 London Stock Exchange.
Regular session
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM local
07:00 - 15:30 UTC
8h 30m window
Regular continuous session only; pre-market, post-market, and auction phases are outside this model.
Weekly regular-session load: about 42h 30m across 5 trading days per week. Europe/London observes seasonal DST, so converted viewer-local times shift twice a year.
Year-of-trading-calendar
The forward 12-month sweep returned 8 tracked full-day closures and 2 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 London Stock Exchange / holiday calendar.
Full-day closures
8
Half-day sessions
2
Early-close days in the next 12 months
Estimated trading days
253
3.1% of trading days closed
May 2026
August 2026
December 2026
January 2027
March 2027
May 2027
Half-day sessions
Scheduled early-close trading days in the next 12 months. Times are exchange-local (Europe/London). Confirm against London Stock Exchange / holiday calendar before relying on these for execution.
Christmas Eve
LSE main order book closes at 12:30 London time on Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday.
Thu, Dec 24, 2026
Early close 12:30 PM
New Year's Eve
LSE main order book closes at 12:30 London time on New Year's Eve when it falls on a weekday.
Thu, Dec 31, 2026
Early close 12:30 PM
Source: London Stock Exchange / holiday 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 LSE 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.
ASX
Sydney · Australia/Sydney
In regular session until Monday, May 25 · 04:00 PM
JPX Tokyo
Tokyo · Asia/Tokyo
In afternoon session until Monday, May 25 · 03:30 PM
HKEX
Hong Kong · Asia/Hong_Kong
In afternoon session until Monday, May 25 · 04:00 PM
NSE India
Mumbai · Asia/Kolkata
In regular session until Monday, May 25 · 03:30 PM
London, United Kingdom
Exchange-local live clock · snapshot date Monday, May 25, 2026
Timezone
GMT+1
Europe/London · UTC+01:00
Regular schedule
Regular session: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Next open
Tuesday, May 26 · 08:00 AM
Snapshot current session
Market is closed
LSE is the anchor European market for many cross-border trading-hours queries and a useful bridge between U.S. and Asia sessions.
Official source: London Stock Exchange
These city-local pages are the fastest way to answer “what time does this exchange open where I am?”
United States
Regular session: 03:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -5h
United States
Regular session: 12:00 AM to 08:30 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: -8h
United Kingdom
Regular session: 08:00 AM to 04:30 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +0h
France
Regular session: 09:00 AM to 05:30 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +1h
India
Regular session: 12:30 PM to 09:00 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +4h 30m
Singapore
Regular session: 03:00 PM to 11:30 PM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +7h
Japan
Regular session: 04:00 PM to 12:30 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +8h
Australia
Regular session: 05:00 PM to 01:30 AM
Local clock: --:--:-- · gap vs market: +9h
Exchange location
The globe highlights LSE’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 LSE. 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.
Early May bank holiday
Full-day closure for Early May bank holiday.
Spring bank holiday
Full-day closure for Spring bank holiday.
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.
Closed today for Spring bank holiday
Closed today for Spring bank holiday. The next regular session opens Tuesday, May 26 · 08:00 AM.
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.
Early May bank holiday
Mon, May 4, 2026
Full-day closure for Early May bank holiday.
Spring bank holiday
Mon, May 25, 2026
Full-day closure for Spring bank holiday.
Source: London Stock Exchange / holiday calendar. This calendar is focused on major recurring closures and is not a substitute for the exchange's current special notices.
Overlap
LSE and NYSE share about 2h of regular-session overlap on the next common trading day, which is the cleanest window for live cross-market monitoring.
Overlap
LSE and Nasdaq share about 2h of regular-session overlap on the next common trading day, which is the cleanest window for live cross-market monitoring.
Overlap
LSE and JPX Tokyo 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
LSE and NSE India share about 3h of regular-session overlap on the next common trading day, which is the cleanest window for live cross-market monitoring.