How to Set TradingView Time Zone Easily 2026

Open any symbol on TradingView — the example here uses BTCUSD on the weekly timeframe with TEMA moving averages plotted — and locate the timestamp control in the bottom-right corner of the chart, next to the price scale. This is a small clock-style control that's easy to miss among the drawing tools and indicator panel, but it's the entry point for every time zone change on the chart.

Clicking that timestamp control opens a dropdown list of time zones, starting with UTC and Exchange at the top, followed by a long alphabetical-by-offset list of cities — Honolulu, Anchorage, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, New York, and onward through every major UTC offset. The current selection is marked with a checkmark, so you can confirm exactly what your chart is set to before changing anything.

Selecting Exchange sets the chart to the local time of whatever venue the symbol actually trades on — Bitstamp, in this example, or NYSE hours for a US stock — which is the standard choice if you're timing entries around a specific market's open and close. Selecting a city instead, like New York or Chicago, displays candle times converted to that zone, which is more convenient if you think in your own local time but don't need to track exchange-specific session boundaries precisely.

After picking a time zone, switch to a lower timeframe like 15 minutes and check the x-axis timestamps at the bottom of the chart — they should now read in the zone you selected, and the timestamp readout near your cursor confirms the exact time of any candle you hover over. On the example chart here, after the change the candle timestamps read against a specific date and time in the new zone, which is the confirmation that the setting actually applied rather than just closing the menu.

Time zone changes matter most on daily and weekly charts, where a shift of even a few hours can move which calendar day a candle's open and close get attributed to — this can make a candle that closed at 11 PM in one zone appear to close the next day in another. If your strategy depends on daily candle closes, recheck your higher-timeframe charts specifically after any time zone change, since this is the timeframe where a mismatch is most likely to distort your read of the market.

A common mistake is setting TradingView to one time zone while a broker platform, alert service, or trading journal runs on another — session-based indicators, economic calendar alerts, and manually logged trade times can all drift out of sync with your chart if they're not aligned. Once you've picked a time zone in TradingView, standardize on the same one everywhere else you track time-sensitive market activity.