EUR/USD Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Euro vs US Dollar (EUR/USD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly EUR/USD candles reach back to 1973-03-01 — around 53 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2003-05-04. A complete EUR/USD 1-minute series is roughly 8.4M rows, about 422 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for EUR/USD
| Symbol | EUR/USD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Euro vs US Dollar |
| Asset class | Forex Majors |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2003-05-04 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2003-05-04 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2003-05-04 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1973-03-01 |
| 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 | 1973-03-01 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
EUR/USD timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
EUR/USD coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
EUR/USD does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1973-03-01, but the tick archive only reaches 2003-05-04, roughly 30 years later. Each row below gives that timeframe's own start date and scale, current through 2026-08-01:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2003-05-04 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2003-05-04 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2003-05-04 | ~8.4M | ~422 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2003-05-04 | ~1.7M | ~84 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2003-05-04 | ~562K | ~28 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2003-05-04 | ~281K | ~14 MB |
| 1 hour | 2003-05-04 | ~141K | ~7 MB |
| 4 hours | 2003-05-04 | ~35,100 | ~2 MB |
| Daily | 1973-03-01 | ~13,500 | ~673 KB |
| Monthly | 1973-03-01 | ~640 | ~32 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 EUR/USD series
Note that this daily series starts in 1973 but the euro did not exist until 1 January 1999. Anything before that date cannot be a real EUR/USD quote — it is a reconstructed continuation stitched onto the pre-euro European currency unit and its constituent rates. That makes the long series useful for regime and volatility work, but it is not a tradable price history: if your backtest assumes it could have executed at those levels, it is wrong. From 1999 onward the quotes are genuine. Tick data starts 2003, comfortably after the transition, so quote-level studies avoid the question entirely.
What's inside the EUR/USD file
timestamp,open,high,low,close,volumeOne row per candle; tick files instead carry timestamp,bid,ask on every quote. All timestamps are UTC. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Euro vs US Dollar
Euro vs US Dollar (EUR/USD) is a spot forex pair with 53 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 1973-03-01 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 EUR/USD data go?
- EUR/USD daily and monthly candles reach back to 1973-03-01 — roughly 53 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2003-05-04. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does EUR/USD tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly EUR/USD candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1973-03-01, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2003-05-04, about 30 years later. If your study needs the full 53-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2003-05-04 is the earliest EUR/USD start date available.
- How large is a full EUR/USD download?
- The complete EUR/USD 1-minute history is roughly 8.4M rows, about 422 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 13,500 rows, 673 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 EUR/USD 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 EUR/USD data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Euro vs US Dollar (EUR/USD) 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