The interest rate decisions of the world’s major central banks on the timelines of your cities: the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Canada, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Swiss National Bank, each at the time it is announced where you are.
Every bank decides at a fixed time on its own clock. A day can bring several of them: on 18 March 2027 the Bank of Japan, the ECB, the Bank of England and the SNB all announce within hours of one another, from Tokyo at midday to Frankfurt in the afternoon. The Fed and ECB press conferences follow their decisions and often move markets more than the decision itself.
The dates follow the schedules each bank publishes for 2026 and 2027. When clocks change in the US, Europe or Australia on different dates, the decisions move in your local time for a week or two; the timeline already accounts for that. The Bank of Japan has no set time and is shown at its usual hour, around noon in Tokyo.
Select a decision to see what is announced, the local time, whether new forecasts come with it, and a link to the bank’s official schedule. US inflation and jobs data are in the [US economic calendar](/us-economic-calendar), and forex sessions with these decisions in the [forex calendar](/forex).
Each bank announces at its own local time: the Fed at 2:00 pm New York time, the ECB at 14:15 Frankfurt time, the Bank of England at 12:00 London time, the Bank of Canada at 9:45 am Ottawa time, the RBA at 2:30 pm Sydney time and the SNB at 9:30 Zurich time. The timeline shows each of them at your local time.
There is no set time. The Bank of Japan publishes its statement as soon as the meeting ends on the second day, usually around noon Tokyo time, so the calendar shows it at 12:00 with a note.
The Fed, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada and RBA have eight scheduled decisions a year each, roughly every six weeks. The SNB decides once a quarter, in March, June, September and December.
The Fed’s dot plot comes in March, June, September and December, as do the ECB staff projections. The Bank of England and the Bank of Canada publish their Monetary Policy Report, the Bank of Japan its Outlook Report and the RBA its Statement on Monetary Policy four times a year. These meetings are marked on the timeline.
Yes. Central banks can move a meeting or add an unscheduled one, and some treat future dates as provisional until they are confirmed. Each event links to the bank’s own schedule.
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