GBP/CHF Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Pound Sterling vs Swiss Franc (GBP/CHF) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. Daily and monthly GBP/CHF candles reach back to 1990-09-06 — around 36 years — while quote-level tick history begins 2003-08-04. A complete GBP/CHF 1-minute series is roughly 8.3M rows, about 417 MB as CSV.
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What the app fetches for GBP/CHF
| Symbol | GBP/CHF |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Pound Sterling vs Swiss Franc |
| Asset class | Forex Crosses |
| Tick & 1-second data from | 2003-08-04 |
| 1–30 minute candles from | 2003-08-04 |
| Hourly & 4-hour candles from | 2003-08-04 |
| Daily & monthly candles from | 1990-09-06 |
| 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 | 1990-09-06 → 2026-08-01 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
GBP/CHF timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
GBP/CHF coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
GBP/CHF does not start at the same date at every granularity: daily candles begin 1990-09-06, but the tick archive only reaches 2003-08-04, roughly 13 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) | 2003-08-04 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2003-08-04 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2003-08-04 | ~8.3M | ~417 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2003-08-04 | ~1.7M | ~83 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2003-08-04 | ~556K | ~28 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2003-08-04 | ~278K | ~14 MB |
| 1 hour | 2003-08-04 | ~139K | ~7 MB |
| 4 hours | 2003-08-04 | ~34,800 | ~2 MB |
| Daily | 1990-09-06 | ~9,000 | ~452 KB |
| Monthly | 1990-09-06 | ~430 | ~22 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 GBP/CHF series
The unlucky pair that caught both of the decade's great FX shocks: the SNB floor abandonment in January 2015 and the Brexit vote in June 2016, from opposite legs. Its daily archive back to 1990 also spans sterling's 1992 ERM ejection. Three regime breaks in one series make it a genuine stress-test bench for risk models — and a terrible pair to fit a single volatility estimate across.
What's inside the GBP/CHF 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 Pound Sterling vs Swiss Franc
Pound Sterling vs Swiss Franc (GBP/CHF) is a spot forex pair with 36 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 1990-09-06 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 GBP/CHF data go?
- GBP/CHF daily and monthly candles reach back to 1990-09-06 — roughly 36 years. Tick and intraday history is shorter: it begins 2003-08-04. Both run up to the last completed trading day, and every licence tier reaches all of it.
- Why does GBP/CHF tick data start later than its daily candles?
- Because they come from different parts of the archive. Daily and monthly GBP/CHF candles are reconstructed from long-run end-of-day records going back to 1990-09-06, while the tick archive — every individual bid/ask quote — only begins 2003-08-04, about 13 years later. If your study needs the full 36-year span, work in daily candles; if it needs quote-level detail, 2003-08-04 is the earliest GBP/CHF start date available.
- How large is a full GBP/CHF download?
- The complete GBP/CHF 1-minute history is roughly 8.3M rows, about 417 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 9,000 rows, 452 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 GBP/CHF 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 GBP/CHF data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Pound Sterling vs Swiss Franc (GBP/CHF) 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
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