Commodity family · Gold
Gold futures trading hours: SHFE, COMEX, OSE 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 gold futures open and close?
Gold futures trade on 3 exchanges: Gold (SHFE AU) Day 09:00–15:00; Night 21:00–02:30 (+1 day) Beijing time; Gold (COMEX GC) CME Globex winter 07:00–06:00 (+1 day) · summer 06:00–05:00 (+1 day) Beijing time; Gold Standard (OSE JAU) Day 07:45–14:45; Night 16:00–05:00 (+1 day) Beijing time.
- In exchange-local time: Gold 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)); Gold 17:00 (prev day)–16:00 (US Central Time); Gold Standard Day 08:45–15:45 · Night 17:00–06:00 (+1 day) (Japan Standard Time).
- Overlap windows and one-sided hours are on the comparison pages: Gold vs Gold, Gold vs Gold Standard.
- 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
Gold futures sessions by exchange
| Products | Session | Local | Beijing / Singapore | UTC | London | New York |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold · SHFE | 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 | |
| Gold · COMEX | 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 |
| Gold Standard · OSE | Day | 08:45–15:45 | 07:45–14:45 | 23:45 (prev day)–06:45 | W 23:45 (prev day)–06:45S 00:45–07:45 | W 18:45 (prev day)–01:45S 19:45 (prev day)–02:45 |
| Night | 17:00–06:00 (+1 day) | 16:00–05:00 (+1 day) | 08:00–21:00 | W 08:00–21:00S 09:00–22:00 | W 03:00–16:00S 04:00–17:00 |
W / S = winter / summer offsets; values can differ by an hour during the weeks when regions switch DST on different dates.