BTCUSD 1-Minute Range by Time of Day
How much does the Bitcoin actually move on the 1-minute chart at different times of day? The table below is measured from 1,612 recorded 1-minute bars across 13 recent sessions: for each hour of the day, the average distance between a bar's high and its low.
| Hour | Avg 1-minute range | |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00 AM ET | 82.44 pts | |
| 7:00 AM ET | 84.67 pts | |
| 8:00 AM ET | 82.31 pts | |
| 9:00 AM ET | 143.57 pts | |
| 10:00 AM ET | 118.14 pts | |
| 11:00 AM ET | 111.18 pts | |
| 12:00 PM ET | 98.98 pts | |
| 1:00 PM ET | 91.67 pts | |
| 2:00 PM ET | 68.46 pts | |
| 3:00 PM ET | 66.51 pts | |
| 4:00 PM ET | 62.46 pts | |
| 5:00 PM ET | 56.93 pts | |
| 6:00 PM ET | 76.69 pts | |
| 7:00 PM ET | 73.63 pts |
How to read this
The most active hours in this window were 9:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM ET, and the quietest were 5:00 PM and 4:00 PM ET. A wider bar means each interval covers more ground. The takeaway is purely observational: a fixed number of points represents a very different share of typical movement at different hours — in this window, the most active hour covered roughly 3× the ground of the quietest.
These figures shift with volatility regimes — they describe the recorded window above, not a guarantee of the next session.