AUD/CAD Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Australian Dollar vs Canadian Dollar (AUD/CAD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly AUD/CAD candles reach back to 1992-11-18 — around 34 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2006-01-03. A complete AUD/CAD 1-minute series is roughly 7.6M rows, about 378 MB as CSV.
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Windows, macOS, Linux · €9 one-time for the entry licence · get the app
What the app fetches for AUD/CAD
| Symbol | AUD/CAD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Australian Dollar vs Canadian Dollar |
| Asset class | Forex Crosses |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2006-01-03 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2006-01-03 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2006-01-03 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1992-11-18 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask (with volume) |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 1992-11-18 → 2026-11-02 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
AUD/CAD timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
AUD/CAD coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
AUD/CAD does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1992-11-18, but the tick archive only reaches 2006-01-03, roughly 14 years later. Each row below gives that timeframe's own start date and scale, current through 2026-11-02:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2006-01-03 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2006-01-03 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2006-01-03 | ~7.6M | ~378 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2006-01-03 | ~1.5M | ~76 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2006-01-03 | ~504K | ~25 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2006-01-03 | ~252K | ~13 MB |
| 1 hour | 2006-01-03 | ~126K | ~6 MB |
| 4 hours | 2006-01-03 | ~31,500 | ~2 MB |
| Daily | 1992-11-18 | ~8,600 | ~428 KB |
| Monthly | 1992-11-18 | ~410 | ~20 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from forex session hours across the available history. Tick and 1-second runs are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. See the data methodology for how candles are built.
Working with the AUD/CAD series
Two commodity currencies, two different commodities: iron-ore-and-China exposure on one leg, crude-and-US exposure on the other. The pair is effectively a relative-commodity spread, and it is at its most informative when those complexes diverge — 2014-16, when oil collapsed while iron ore held longer, is the textbook window. Treating it as a generic "risk pair" misses what it actually prices.
AUD/CAD historical data — two commodity currencies, two hemispheres
AUD/CAD tick and 1-minute data
Ticks and 1-minute candles both start 2006-01-03; the full 1-minute run is 7.6M rows, about 378 MB as CSV. Daily candles reach back to 1992-11-18, and the complete daily file is 8,600 rows, about 428 KB as CSV.
Two central banks, and both move in UTC
The Reserve Bank of Australia announces at 2:30 pm Sydney time, at eight meetings a year since February 2024 (eleven before). The Bank of Canada announces at 9:45 am Eastern, on eight fixed dates a year; it moved the time forward from 10:00 with its January 2024 decision. In UTC both shift with daylight saving — in opposite hemispheres. Sydney's summer time runs from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April, Toronto's from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. So an RBA decision lands at 03:30 UTC in the southern summer and 04:30 UTC in its winter, and a BoC decision at 13:45 or 14:45 UTC. An event study that hard-codes one UTC minute for either catches the wrong bar for months at a time, and one that reaches back before 2024 needs 10:00 Eastern for the Bank of Canada, not 9:45.
Where the spread lives
Most AUD and CAD liquidity trades against the US dollar, and a cross like AUD/CAD is priced off those two legs, so its spread is wider than either and varies through the day. It is widest around the daily rollover at 17:00 New York time, when liquidity thins for a few minutes before Sydney takes over. The tick file shows this directly: compute askPrice − bidPrice per row and average it by hour of the day (in New York time, so the rollover stays put). A strategy that enters at the day change pays the widest spread of the day, and a candle backtest, built from one side of the quote, never sees it.
Is AUD/CAD historical data free?
The app is a free download and the data comes straight from Dukascopy Bank SA to your disk, never through our servers. Every licence, including the €9 entry tier, reaches the whole AUD/CAD archive at every timeframe — tiers differ by software features, never by history.
What's inside the AUD/CAD file
timestamp,open,high,low,close,volumeOne row per candle, stamped with the bar's opening time; tick files instead carry timestamp,askPrice,bidPrice,askVolume,bidVolume on every quote — ask first. Timestamps are epoch milliseconds in UTC, which pd.to_datetime(df.timestamp, unit="ms", utc=True) or =A2/86400000+DATE(1970,1,1) turns into a date. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Australian Dollar vs Canadian Dollar
Australian Dollar vs Canadian Dollar (AUD/CAD) is a spot forex pair with 34 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting forex trading strategies and expert advisors (EAs), spread and volatility analysis, training algorithmic and machine-learning models, and charting currency-pair history. Pick any date range from 1992-11-18 onward, choose a timeframe and the bid or ask side, and the app fetches and writes the files locally — no scripting.
Frequently asked questions
- How far back does AUD/CAD data go?
- AUD/CAD daily and monthly candles reach back to 1992-11-18 — roughly 34 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2006-01-03. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does AUD/CAD tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly AUD/CAD candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1992-11-18, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2006-01-03, about 14 years later. If your study needs the full 34-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2006-01-03 is the earliest AUD/CAD start date available.
- How large is a full AUD/CAD download?
- The complete AUD/CAD 1-minute history is roughly 7.6M rows, about 378 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 8,600 rows, 428 KB. Tick and 1-second runs are larger again and are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. Sizes are approximate; nothing is priced by volume.
- What columns are in the AUD/CAD CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns (with volume); tick files contain a timestamp with bid and ask prices. All timestamps are UTC. The files import directly into Excel, Google Sheets, Python (pandas read_csv), R, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- Do you sell AUD/CAD data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Australian Dollar vs Canadian Dollar (AUD/CAD) on your own machine, under your instruction, directly from the source; we never host, cache or relay it. Your use of the retrieved data is subject to the source's terms.
Guides
- Get the app — Windows, macOS, Linux
- How to download historical forex data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- Import into MetaTrader
- Load in Python (pandas)
- How far back data goes
- vs HistData
- Import into NinjaTrader
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