Commodity family · Crude oil
Crude oil futures trading hours: INE, NYMEX, ICE side by side
The same commodity on every exchange it trades on, one table: each row in exchange-local time and converted to Beijing, UTC, London and New York. The strip shows which are open right now.
What time do crude oil futures open and close?
Crude oil futures trade on 3 exchanges: Crude Oil (INE SC) Day 09:00–15:00; Night 21:00–02:30 (+1 day) Beijing time; WTI Crude (NYMEX CL) CME Globex winter 07:00–06:00 (+1 day) · summer 06:00–05:00 (+1 day) Beijing time; Brent Crude (ICE B) Day winter 09:00–07:00 (+1 day) · summer 08:00–06:00 (+1 day) Beijing time.
- In exchange-local time: Crude Oil Day 09:00–10:15, 10:30–11:30, 13:30–15:00 · Night 21:00–02:30 (+1 day) (China Standard Time (UTC+8)); WTI Crude 17:00 (prev day)–16:00 (US Central Time); Brent Crude 23:00 (prev day)–23:00 · 01:00–23:00 (London time).
- Overlap windows and one-sided hours are on the comparison pages: Crude Oil vs Brent Crude, Crude Oil vs WTI Crude, WTI Crude vs Brent Crude.
- Every session is checked against the exchange's official schedule (reviewed 2026-09-04); conversions use standard winter/summer offsets, and holiday early closes and closures are on the 2026 calendar.
Source: Futures Clock, reviewed 2026-09-04
Crude oil futures sessions by exchange
| Products | Session | Local | Beijing / Singapore | UTC | London | New York |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude Oil · INE | Day | 09:00–15:00 | 09:00–15:00 | 01:00–07:00 | W 01:00–07:00S 02:00–08:00 | W 20:00 (prev day)–02:00S 21:00 (prev day)–03:00 |
| Night | 21:00–02:30 (+1 day) | 21:00–02:30 (+1 day) | 13:00–18:30 | W 13:00–18:30S 14:00–19:30 | W 08:00–13:30S 09:00–14:30 | |
| WTI Crude · NYMEX | CME Globex | 17:00 (prev day)–16:00 | W 07:00–06:00 (+1 day)S 06:00–05:00 (+1 day) | W 23:00 (prev day)–22:00S 22:00 (prev day)–21:00 | 23:00 (prev day)–22:00 | 18:00 (prev day)–17:00 |
| Brent Crude · ICE | Day | 01:00–23:00 | W 09:00–07:00 (+1 day)S 08:00–06:00 (+1 day) | W 01:00–23:00S 00:00–22:00 | 01:00–23:00 | 20:00 (prev day)–18:00 |
W / S = winter / summer offsets; values can differ by an hour during the weeks when regions switch DST on different dates.