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Best time to trade silver, hour by hour

Silver has moved most from 08:00 to 11:00 New York time, 2.9 times its quietest hour, and most on Thursdays. Measured on 3,413 hour candles from 29 March 2026 to 23 October 2026, with the hours on UTC, UK and India time.

18:00 New York: $0.486 on average19:00 New York: $0.385 on average20:00 New York: $0.603 on average21:00 New York: $0.839 on average22:00 New York: $0.610 on average23:00 New York: $0.430 on average00:00 New York: $0.333 on average01:00 New York: $0.631 on average02:00 New York: $0.553 on average03:00 New York: $0.511 on average04:00 New York: $0.487 on average05:00 New York: $0.401 on average06:00 New York: $0.420 on average07:00 New York: $0.502 on average08:00 New York: $0.793 on average09:00 New York: $0.921 on average10:00 New York: $0.819 on average11:00 New York: $0.631 on average12:00 New York: $0.495 on average13:00 New York: $0.470 on average14:00 New York: $0.468 on average15:00 New York: $0.451 on average16:00 New York: $0.295 on average
Average move in each hour, New York time. The hour now is marked.

The busy hours

From 08:00 to 11:00 New York time, an hour's candle of silver has averaged $0.793, $0.921, $0.819 from high to low: 2.9 times the quietest hour. US data comes out at 08:30 New York, and the US stock market opens at 09:30. The table below puts every hour on four clocks.

The quiet hours

The quietest hour is 16:00 to 17:00 New York, at $0.295 on average (0.44% of the price). Silver stops from 17:00 to 18:00 New York every weekday; the 18:00 hour after it has averaged $0.486.

Every hour on four clocks

New YorkUTCUKIndia (IST)Average moveMedianOf the priceCandles
18:0022:00 to 23:0022:00 to 23:003:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.$0.486$0.3360.71%149
19:0023:00 to 00:0023:00 to 00:004:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m.$0.385$0.3190.56%149
20:0000:00 to 01:0000:00 to 01:005:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.$0.603$0.5170.89%149
21:0001:00 to 02:0001:00 to 02:006:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.$0.839$0.7041.24%149
22:0002:00 to 03:0002:00 to 03:007:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.$0.610$0.5300.91%149
23:0003:00 to 04:0003:00 to 04:008:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.$0.430$0.3900.64%149
00:0004:00 to 05:0004:00 to 05:009:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.$0.333$0.2900.49%149
01:0005:00 to 06:0005:00 to 06:0010:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.$0.631$0.5700.93%149
02:0006:00 to 07:0006:00 to 07:0011:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.$0.553$0.4610.83%149
03:0007:00 to 08:0007:00 to 08:0012:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.$0.511$0.4630.76%149
04:0008:00 to 09:0008:00 to 09:001:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.$0.487$0.4170.73%149
05:0009:00 to 10:0009:00 to 10:002:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.$0.401$0.3560.59%149
06:0010:00 to 11:0010:00 to 11:003:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.$0.420$0.3560.62%149
07:0011:00 to 12:0011:00 to 12:004:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.$0.502$0.4060.74%148
08:0012:00 to 13:0012:00 to 13:005:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.$0.793$0.6521.18%148
09:0013:00 to 14:0013:00 to 14:006:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.$0.921$0.8011.36%148
10:0014:00 to 15:0014:00 to 15:007:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.$0.819$0.7181.21%148
11:0015:00 to 16:0015:00 to 16:008:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.$0.631$0.5550.93%148
12:0016:00 to 17:0016:00 to 17:009:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.$0.495$0.4380.73%148
13:0017:00 to 18:0017:00 to 18:0010:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.$0.470$0.4020.69%148
14:0018:00 to 19:0018:00 to 19:0011:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.$0.468$0.3730.69%148
15:0019:00 to 20:0019:00 to 20:0012:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m.$0.451$0.3680.67%146
16:0020:00 to 21:0020:00 to 21:001:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.$0.295$0.2360.44%146

Times as they run now; the page moves them when a clock changes. 17:00 New York is the daily pause.

Range by day of the week

Trading dayBarAverage rangeMedianOf the priceDays
Monday$2.583$2.1933.79%30
Tuesday$3.044$2.8164.47%30
Wednesday$3.151$2.7624.73%30
Thursday$3.240$2.8794.81%30
Friday$2.920$2.2544.26%28

A trading day runs from 18:00 to 17:00 New York time and takes the date it ends, so Monday starts on Sunday evening. 28 to 30 days of each.

How we measured

We took the hour candles of Hyperliquid's silver market (xyz:SILVER) from 29 March 2026 to 23 October 2026: 3,413 candles, only the hours the real market trades. Each hour figure is the average distance from a candle's high to its low; each day figure is the high to low of a whole trading day (148 of them). Across a whole day silver moved $2.989 on average in that span, 4.41% of the price. We computed this on 23 October 2026. Busy hours come and go with the news, so treat this as a map of the usual day, not a promise for tomorrow.

Questions and answers

What is the best time to trade silver?

If you want silver moving, it has moved most from 08:00 to 11:00 New York time. An hour candle there has averaged $0.793, $0.921, $0.819 from high to low, against $0.295 in the quietest hour.

When is silver quietest?

From 16:00 to 17:00 New York time, at $0.295 on average, 0.44% of the price. It also pauses from 17:00 to 18:00 New York every weekday.

Which day of the week does silver move most?

Thursday: a trading day has averaged $3.240 from high to low, against $2.583 on Monday. Each weekday has only about 30 days in this data, so one big news day can tilt its figure.

Is silver open 24 hours?

Silver trades from Sunday 18:00 to Friday 17:00 New York time, with a one-hour pause from 17:00 each day and early stops on some US holidays. Only those hours count here, so there are no weekend candles.

Where silver is today, with the levels and the day's schedule: XAGUSD today. The chart: the silver price chart, or Silver on Pravex, free. The next US releases, with a countdown: economic calendar.

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