ECB Meeting Dates 2026 & 2027

The ECB’s Governing Council sets interest rates for the euro area at monetary policy meetings held roughly every six weeks. Each meeting runs over two days and the decision is published on the second day. Every date below is shown in 14:15 Frankfurt time and converted to your time zone, including daylight-saving changes in both places. Past meetings are greyed out and the next one is highlighted.

Remaining ECB dates in 2026

ECB meeting dates 2027

8 decisions published for 2027 so far.

What the ECB announces, and when

• 14:15 Frankfurt time: the monetary policy decision is published, covering the ECB’s three key interest rates: the deposit facility rate, the main refinancing operations rate and the marginal lending facility rate. Markets focus on the deposit facility rate, the rate the ECB uses to steer short-term money-market rates.
• 14:45: the ECB President holds a press conference, explaining the decision and taking questions. Comments on the outlook here often move the euro as much as the decision itself.
• Four times a year (March, June, September and December) the meeting comes with new staff macroeconomic projections for growth and inflation.

Euro area flash inflation (HICP), published by Eurostat around the start of each month, is the main data release ahead of each meeting. See them all on the economic calendar, or this week’s schedule on the forex week ahead.

What a ECB decision moves

Rate decisions are among the biggest scheduled events for the EUR. The pairs that usually react most are EUR/USD, EUR/GBP and EUR/JPY. Spreads often widen in the minutes around the announcement and price can move fast in both directions, so many traders check the time in their own zone in advance and decide whether to hold positions through it.

To see the decision on your chart, switch on economic events in TradingView’s chart settings (our TradingView economic calendar guide shows how). To compare how the EUR is moving against the other majors, use the currency strength meter.

Other central bank meeting dates

• Federal Reserve (FOMC)
• Bank of England (BoE)
• Bank of Japan (BoJ)
• Bank of Canada (BoC)
• Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)
• Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)
• Swiss National Bank (SNB)
• All central bank dates on one page

Source: ECB Governing Council meeting calendar and the ECB press release on the timing of monetary policy announcements. Checked October 2026. Central banks occasionally move a meeting; the official schedule always wins. ChartWatch is independent, not affiliated with the European Central Bank, and doesn’t give trading advice.

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