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Night Arrivals · Currency Exchange Guide · Last checked 22 October 2026

Landing at Night: Are Airport Currency Exchange Counters Open?

A late flight may raise a practical question. Are the currency exchange counters still open after your arrival at midnight? The answer varies by airport, and some airports in our set give no hours. Our sources are diverse and often contradictory. A few airports list 24-hour counters, but with a catch: a nightly maintenance closure at Haneda, limited hours at Narita, or differing ranges on the operator's own page at Abu Dhabi. The hours we found mostly come from travel guides, not the bank or operator. ATMs have the best record for night time, with Changi's own page listing its ATMs as open 24 hours daily and the Cambodian and Taiwanese sources describing 24-hour machines. The safest plan is to treat any counter as possibly closed and to bring a card that works abroad. If you can get a little local cash before you fly, carry it for a taxi. This post collects what the sources say, shows where hours differ, and presents a fallback plan that requires no counter to be open. We read these sources in October 2026, and hours are known to change, so check on the day.

The short version

What published hours look like

We group the airports by the strength of the evidence, not the answer.

Airport page with printed hours. Haneda and Narita publish counters with hours in a table. These are the best sources in our set, and both are undated.

Operator or bank page. At Abu Dhabi, the LuLu Exchange branch page for Terminal A says open 24 hours in one place and lists midnight to 11:59 PM for each day in its FAQ. At Phnom Penh's Techo airport, Canadia Bank's announcement lists the branch as open daily from 7:00 AM to midnight, with 24-hour self-service machines in the arrival hall.

Travel guide only. For Changi, Taipei, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur and Doha the hours come from a guide, a blog or a directory.

No hours found. For Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Istanbul, Cebu and others we found no hours at all, and our earlier pages' claims were removed in the absence of a source.

Airport by airport

Tokyo Haneda. The airport's exchange page lists Terminal 3 counters of Japan Airport Terminal Foreign Currency Exchange as 24 hours, on the 2nd floor Arrival Lobby and 3rd floor Departure Lobby, and Shinhan Bank Japan as 24 hours on the 3rd floor airside. The page states even 24-hour exchange facilities close during the night for maintenance. An airport notice of 8 April 2024 sets the closures for the two Japan Airport Terminal counters at 1:00 to 2:00 AM and 2:00 to 3:00 AM. Travelex at Terminal 3 is listed until 1:30 AM. Terminals 1 and 2 retain daytime or evening hours, with a Pocket Change machine at Terminal 2 that is listed as 24 hours. Pocket Change is not a cash exchange.

Tokyo Narita. The airport's page lists most staffed counters as closing between 18:00 and 23:00. The page offers two machines for the hours when the counters are closed: a Terminal 2 Main Building machine listed 0:00 to 24:00 and a Terminal 1 Central Building machine listed 17:00 to 6:50. The second is not round the clock. The ATM page lists SevenBank units that have varying hours, such as 6:00 to 23:00 in Terminal 1 North Wing and 0:00 to 24:00 in the Terminal 2 Main Building basement, and a Japan Post Bank unit in Terminal 1 listed 0:00 to 24:00.

Singapore Changi. A travel guide states the money changers are supposed to be open 24 hours, in wording that suggests the author did not check each one. Changi's own page gives hours only for ATMs, all open 24 hours daily.

Taipei Taoyuan. A travel blog's tables list the Bank of Taiwan counters at the arrival halls of both terminals as 00:00 to 24:00, with lesser hours for others, and the tables contradict elsewhere. The same blog states ATMs and foreign-currency ATMs are open 24 hours. We found no airport page.

Abu Dhabi. Travelex and LuLu both list counters in Terminal A. LuLu's page says 24 hours and also lists midnight to 11:59 PM. We found no hours for the Travelex points.

Kuala Lumpur klia2. Two information pages and a travel guide state CIMB at Gateway@klia2 and an AmBank booth are open 24 hours. For KLIA we found no hours at all.

Phnom Penh Techo. Canadia Bank's announcement gives 7:00 AM to midnight for the branch and around-the-clock self-service machines in the arrival hall. The airport's page gives no hours, and we do not know whether the departure-hall counters follow the branch.

Hanoi Noi Bai. The airport's page gives no hours. A travel guide states BIDV exchanges currency daily from 6:30 AM to midnight, and that Maritime Bank and Techcombank are open weekdays and Saturday mornings and closed on Sunday. If it is correct, a late arrival may find only BIDV open, and not beyond midnight.

Jaipur. A forex seller states counters operate only around scheduled international flights, opening two to three hours before departures and closing soon after, while an area guide lists an airport counter as 24 hours. They disagree, and neither is the airport.

Doha. Wise shows every Travelex Al Dar location as open 24 hours, seven days a week. The airport's page gives none, so it is one third-party source.

Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Istanbul, Cebu. None of the sources we read gives hours for the exchange counters. The Heathrow page we read also gives none. For Istanbul, a concession covering many branches suggests round-the-clock hours, but that is not certain.

Why "24 hours" needs a second look

A 24-hour label can indicate several things. It can mean the counter is staffed all night. It can mean a machine runs all night but a staffed desk does not. It can mean the airport is open, not the exchange. The Haneda page demonstrates a fourth meaning: open 24 hours except for a daily maintenance break.

Three habits help. First, look for a source that is the operator or the airport. Second, look for a time range, not a label. Third, check for a closure note. At Haneda, the notice with the closure times was on a separate airport page from the table.

A made-up example of a night arrival

The figures below are invented. They only illustrate how a fixed fee can affect the cost of a small night withdrawal.

Say you land at 2:30 AM and every counter is closed. You need cash for a taxi, and there is an ATM that is open.

If you can pay the taxi by card, you may need no cash at all. We cannot say that for any airport in this list, because we do not know whether the taxi rank takes cards.

What to carry for a night arrival

This is our advice, not a sourced fact.

  1. A debit or credit card that works abroad, with its fee schedule checked before you travel.
  2. A small amount of local cash, bought before you fly if your own bank or a home airport counter can supply it, enough for a first ride and a meal.
  3. A second card, kept in a different place, in case one is declined or blocked.
  4. The address of your first stop in the local script or on your phone, and an offline map.
  5. A rough idea of the taxi fare, so a small withdrawal is enough.

Buying a small sum at home can cost you in the rate. For a few thousand rupees or a few hundred dollars' worth, the difference is small. We did not measure it for any airport here.

If the ATM is the fallback

ATMs are more often open at night than counters, but they are not a free option. Our airport guides found these limits and fees, with the source type.

Check your card's own fee and choose the local currency if the machine offers to charge you in your home currency. Our guide to dynamic currency conversion explains why.

Reading unusual hour notation

Some pages print hours in ways that look like typing errors. They are not, and they matter at night.

When two notations for one counter disagree, assume the shorter one until you see the sign.

Staffed counters, machines and ATMs are different things

At night the useful question is often whether anything is open, not whether a counter is.

If the staffed counter is closed, the machines are a separate route. If you plan to use one, check the page for the currencies it takes before you rely on it, because we could not confirm that for Narita or Haneda.

What a closed counter does and does not mean

This section is our reading. It is not a sourced fact. A closed counter at a quiet hour does not mean the airport has failed you. We found no source that says why any counter closes.

What it does mean is that you have a decision to make about price. The counters that are open at night are, in some places, the only ones. If a guide says one counter is open and it is the only one, you have no one to compare against. In that case the question is not which counter, but whether to change at all before morning.

For a small sum, the simplest choice is a small ATM withdrawal or a card payment. For a larger sum, waiting for a city branch is more likely to cost less, though we did not measure it. If you must change a larger sum at a night counter, ask for the final amount first, because the same percentage gap costs more on a larger sum.

What we could not confirm

A simple plan

  1. Before you fly, search for the airport's own page on money exchange and note any hours it prints.
  2. Treat a "24 hours" label from a guide as unconfirmed, and look for a time range.
  3. Bring a card that works abroad and a small amount of local cash if you can.
  4. On arrival, check the counter sign and the time, and use an ATM if the counter is closed.
  5. Choose the local currency on any machine that offers a choice, and keep the withdrawal as large as you are comfortable carrying to limit a fixed fee.

FAQ

Can I rely on a 24-hour label?
Not on its own. Haneda's page lists 24-hour counters and notes a nightly maintenance closure.

Which source is best for hours?
The airport's own page or the operator's page, with a time range. Where there is none, a guide is the fallback.

Are ATMs better at night?
They are more often open, but they have limits and fees. Changi's own page lists its ATMs as 24 hours.

Should I change money before I fly?
A small amount for the first ride can avoid a search at night. Compare the rate against the mid-market rate, because a home counter has its own margin.

What if I land and nothing is open?
Use a card where it is accepted and an ATM for a small cash amount, and change more in the city.

Sources and how we checked them

Checked on 22 October 2026. Where we call something confirmed, an official source says so directly or at least two sources agree. Many of the hours below come from guides, not operators.

Editorial note: The counter, rate and airport information in this guide is editorial and is not paid for. Rates and fees change, so confirm the final rate at the counter before exchanging.

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