BTC: Spot Volume Share: East vs West Hours
Shown as its 3 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 sample; the latest readings and full history are included with Plus.
Share of each UTC day's BTC spot volume that traded in the 22:00 to 10:00 UTC hours (the Asia-Pacific working day) and in the 10:00 to 22:00 UTC hours (Europe and the Americas).
Why use it. Shows where the day's activity sits. Sustained shifts to one side have often gone with regional flows, such as Asia-led rallies or US-led selling. How to read it. The two lines add up to 100%. The hours are fixed clock hours, so they are a proxy: many traders are active outside their region's working hours. The summary value is the East share.
Calculation. Each hour of the UTC day is assigned to the East (22:00-10:00 UTC) or the West (10:00-22:00 UTC); 100 x the hours' US-dollar volume / the whole day's volume. Complete days only: at least 23 of the day's 24 hours must have been captured, and the open day is not shown. Source: our own capture of the public spot trade feeds of Binance, Bybit, OKX, Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Gemini, KuCoin, Gate, Bitget, HTX and Crypto.com (taker side as each venue publishes it; Binance from its one-minute candles, which carry taker-buy volume). Trades missed during a reconnect are not estimated. Venues we do not collect are not included, so totals understate the whole market. History starts when our collection began on 14 October 2026; no earlier values are reconstructed.