BTCUSD (Bitcoin) 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 3,096 recorded 1 minute bars across 14 recent sessions: for each hour of the day, the average distance between a bar's high and its low.
| Hour | Avg 1 minute range | |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 AM ET | 125.09 pts | |
| 5:00 AM ET | 116.47 pts | |
| 6:00 AM ET | 74.97 pts | |
| 7:00 AM ET | 54.99 pts | |
| 8:00 AM ET | 56.62 pts | |
| 9:00 AM ET | 103.06 pts | |
| 10:00 AM ET | 69.44 pts | |
| 11:00 AM ET | 75.05 pts | |
| 12:00 PM ET | 48.68 pts | |
| 1:00 PM ET | 40.41 pts | |
| 2:00 PM ET | 33.70 pts | |
| 3:00 PM ET | 32.44 pts | |
| 4:00 PM ET | 34.03 pts | |
| 5:00 PM ET | 33.68 pts | |
| 6:00 PM ET | 43.29 pts | |
| 7:00 PM ET | 54.70 pts |
How to read this
The most active hours in this window were 4:00 AM, 5:00 AM, 9:00 AM ET, and the quietest were 3:00 PM and 5:00 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 4× the ground of the quietest.
These figures shift with volatility regimes — they describe the recorded window above, not a guarantee of the next session.