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AUD/USD (AUDUSD) volatility by hour, day and month
When AUD/USD moves, how much, and on which days — measured on 1513 trading days of real one-minute data from our broker feed, 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-30. Descriptive statistics of the past, not a forecast.
Volatility by hour
Over the last 12 months, the hour with the widest average range on AUD/USD was 15:00–16:00 UTC (29.8 bp), and the quietest was 21:00–22:00 UTC (7.6 bp): 3.9 times smaller.
Average range of each one-hour bar, in basis points of price. Hours without prices in our feed are not drawn.
Table: range by hour, UTC, last 12 months
| Hour (UTC) | Mean, bp | Median, bp | Hours measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 17.8 | 14.2 | 89 |
| 01:00 | 18.5 | 16.7 | 89 |
| 02:00 | 16.9 | 13.4 | 89 |
| 03:00 | 15.4 | 12.4 | 88 |
| 04:00 | 13.2 | 11.1 | 88 |
| 05:00 | 13.1 | 11.2 | 88 |
| 06:00 | 14.1 | 11.7 | 88 |
| 07:00 | 16.4 | 14.8 | 88 |
| 08:00 | 17.5 | 16.7 | 88 |
| 09:00 | 17.5 | 14.0 | 88 |
| 10:00 | 14.4 | 12.4 | 88 |
| 11:00 | 13.2 | 11.5 | 88 |
| 12:00 | 15.7 | 13.2 | 88 |
| 13:00 | 21.3 | 18.1 | 88 |
| 14:00 | 23.7 | 21.6 | 88 |
| 15:00 | 29.8 | 25.2 | 88 |
| 16:00 | 20.8 | 17.3 | 88 |
| 17:00 | 16.8 | 13.9 | 88 |
| 18:00 | 14.9 | 11.5 | 88 |
| 19:00 | 13.3 | 9.9 | 88 |
| 20:00 | 12.0 | 9.1 | 88 |
| 21:00 | 7.6 | 6.6 | 88 |
| 22:00 | 11.1 | 9.8 | 89 |
| 23:00 | 13.2 | 10.5 | 89 |
Day of the week
Thursday has the widest average daily range (1.01%), Monday the narrowest (0.88%). Only Monday shows an average open-to-close return that is distinguishable from zero at 95% confidence (marked •). Even then it is one measurement over a few years: check the year-by-year table before reading anything into it.
| Day | Average range | Open → close, mean ± 95% CI | Up days | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 0.88 % | +0.138 % ± 0.063 • | 59.8 % | 301 |
| Tuesday | 0.96 % | +0.019 % ± 0.067 | 51.6 % | 304 |
| Wednesday | 1.00 % | +0.068 % ± 0.074 | 54.6 % | 302 |
| Thursday | 1.01 % | +0.026 % ± 0.071 | 53.3 % | 302 |
| Friday | 0.97 % | −0.028 % ± 0.080 | 50.7 % | 304 |
Average open → close return, year by year (%)
| Year | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +0.148 | −0.027 | +0.052 | −0.032 | −0.072 |
| 2022 | −0.078 | +0.112 | +0.259 | −0.056 | −0.087 |
| 2023 | +0.210 | −0.040 | −0.029 | +0.091 | +0.014 |
| 2024 | +0.062 | −0.082 | −0.075 | +0.157 | −0.044 |
| 2025 | +0.241 | +0.050 | +0.156 | +0.002 | −0.005 |
| 2026 | +0.267 | +0.119 | +0.036 | −0.014 | +0.038 |
Monthly seasonality
Return of each calendar month, from the first open to the last close. With only 6 years per month, one unusual year moves the average a lot: the median and the year-by-year table are there to show it.
| Month | Mean | Median | Positive | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | +0.28 % | −0.15 % | 50 % | 6 |
| February | +0.24 % | +0.93 % | 67 % | 6 |
| March | −0.03 % | −0.15 % | 50 % | 6 |
| April | +0.21 % | +0.45 % | 50 % | 6 |
| May | +0.56 % | +0.38 % | 67 % | 6 |
| June | −0.84 % | −1.35 % | 50 % | 6 |
| July | −0.38 % | −0.56 % | 50 % | 6 |
| August | +0.22 % | +0.74 % | 50 % | 6 |
| September | −1.36 % | −0.96 % | 33 % | 6 |
| October | −0.30 % | −0.52 % | 33 % | 6 |
| November | +0.91 % | +0.12 % | 60 % | 5 |
| December | +0.56 % | +2.04 % | 80 % | 5 |
Every month, year by year (%)
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | −0.7 | +1.0 | −1.5 | +1.5 | +0.2 | −3.0 | −2.0 | −0.3 | −1.2 | +4.0 | −5.1 | +2.0 |
| 2022 | −2.6 | +2.8 | +3.0 | −5.6 | +1.5 | −3.8 | +1.3 | −1.9 | −6.5 | −0.0 | +6.2 | +0.5 |
| 2023 | +3.8 | −4.6 | −0.6 | −1.0 | −1.6 | +2.6 | +0.9 | −3.5 | −0.7 | −1.3 | +4.3 | +3.1 |
| 2024 | −3.6 | −1.0 | +0.3 | −0.6 | +2.8 | +0.3 | −2.1 | +3.4 | +2.2 | −4.8 | −1.0 | −5.0 |
| 2025 | +0.4 | +0.8 | +0.5 | +2.5 | +0.6 | +2.3 | −2.2 | +1.8 | +1.1 | −1.0 | +0.1 | +2.1 |
| 2026 | +4.4 | +2.4 | −2.0 | +4.5 | −0.1 | −3.5 | +1.8 | +1.8 | −3.1 | +1.3 | — | — |
Trading sessions
How much of the day's range happens inside each session, over the last 12 months. Sessions overlap, so the shares do not add up to 100%. A session with no prices in our feed is not listed.
| Session | Average range | Median share of the day's range | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo 09:00–15:00 Tokyo time | 37.4 bp | 49 % | 258 |
| London 08:00–16:30 London time | 53.5 bp | 70 % | 258 |
| New York 08:00–17:00 New York time | 53.1 bp | 68 % | 258 |
Volatility over the last year
ATR (14) as a percentage of the price, one point per trading day.
How it is measured
- One-minute bid prices from the cTrader broker feed we use for our own backtests: 1513 complete trading days, 2021-01-04 to 2026-10-30.
- A trading day is the broker's: it closes at 17:00 New York time, as in cTrader. Partial days (holidays) are left out.
- Range = high − low of the period, as a share of its opening price. 1 bp (basis point) = 0.01%. ATR is Wilder's 14-day average true range.
- The hourly profile is measured in UTC and kept separately for US summer and winter time, so the hours shown in your time zone stay right all year.
- Updated every day after the market data sync. These are descriptive statistics of the past: they are not a forecast and not a trading signal.