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Hong Kong stock market historical data

2,572 listings across HKEX. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

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HKEX trading day, Monday to Friday

09:30 to 12:00, 13:00 to 16:00 HKT01:30 to 04:00, 05:00 to 08:00 UTC

Hang Seng, priced in HKD, settling T+2.

1891
Founded in Hong Kong
2,600
Listed companies
2,572
Symbol pages on DataCedar

Hong Kong key facts

  • Hong Kong's stock market trades on HKEX, priced in HKD; its headline indices are Hang Seng.
  • Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (Stock Exchange of Hong Kong), founded 1891 in Hong Kong, trades 09:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00 HKT, pre opening from 09:00, closing auction to 16:10, Monday to Friday, regulated by Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
  • DataCedar covers 2,572 Hong Kong listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About HKEX

Full name
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (Stock Exchange of Hong Kong)
Location
Hong Kong
Founded
1891
Regulator
Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
Trading hours
09:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00 HKT, pre opening from 09:00, closing auction to 16:10
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Asia/Hong Kong
Currency
HKD
Settlement
T+2
Ticker convention
Numeric codes up to five digits (0700 Tencent, 9988 Alibaba)
Headline indices
Hang Seng
Listed
about 2,600 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 4.5 trillion (2025)
  • The listing venue for most large mainland Chinese companies outside China (H shares and red chips).
  • Stock Connect links it to the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, letting each side trade the other's stocks.
  • The Hang Seng Index, run by Hang Seng Indexes, is the benchmark.
  • HKEX sells historical data through its data services; daily quotations are published on its website.

About Hong Kong market data on DataCedar

Hong Kong trades on HKEX, priced in HKD, and its headline indices are Hang Seng. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 2,572 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

Hong Kong stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/0001/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesHong Kong exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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Hong Kong market data

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