Stanley Market Opening Hours — When to Go, Every Day of the Week

Last updated: October 2026. The hours below are the normal trading window, and individual shops set their own, so treat them as a guide and confirm on the day — especially around Chinese New Year.

Stanley Market opening hours at a glance

Every shop arranges its own hours; the table above is the normal trading window. While you are there, the bus fare and the rest of what the day costs are set out in our Stanley Market prices and bus fares page.

What time does Stanley Market open and close?

It opens at about 10:00 and the stalls start closing around 18:30. That is the answer for a normal day, and it is worth saying plainly because there is no official schedule hanging over a gate: Stanley Market is a lane of independent shops and stalls, not a ticketed attraction, so no single opening or closing time is set for the whole market.

In practice the lane follows a steady rhythm. A few shops open as early as about 09:00, most are trading by 10:00, and a handful of stragglers keep serving until about 19:00. Because the street itself is a public throughway, you can walk it at any hour — it is the shops that open and shut, not the lane. If you arrive in the evening expecting to shop, you will find most of it already packed up.

Why there is no single set of opening hours

There is no operator that sets hours for the market as a whole, and no official body publishes a schedule you can quote — which is why the sources you find online disagree by thirty minutes or an hour. Even the Hong Kong Tourism Board's Stanley Market page gives the address and a website but no hours, because there are none to give. The practical upshot is simple: plan around the core window of 10:00 to 18:30, which nearly every shop keeps on a normal day, and do not build a tight plan around an exact minute at either end.

Is Stanley Market open on Sundays and public holidays?

Yes. The market is open seven days a week, on Saturdays and Sundays and on public holidays such as Christmas, Boxing Day and Easter. Weekends and public holidays are, in fact, its busiest days, so if you want quiet browsing the weekday mornings are calmer.

The one regular exception is Chinese New Year. Some shops — often the smaller, family-run ones — close or shut early for the first day or two of the holiday, and the market is busiest around the New Year period once they reopen. The pattern varies by shop and year, so check before you travel if your visit falls on those dates; our Chinese New Year guide and the seasonal guide cover the details.

What stays open after the market closes?

The market is a daytime market — it winds down through the late afternoon — but Stanley does not. Once the lane has packed up, the waterfront keeps going: the promenade restaurants and bars along Stanley Main Street serve on into the evening well past the last stall. That is the reason to build your day here as an afternoon rather than a morning: shop the lane while it is open, then stay on for dinner with the harbour in front of you.

For the choice of places to eat, see the restaurant index; for the heritage building itself, and for why there is nothing to eat inside it, see the Murray House guide. No single closing time applies to these venues — each keeps its own hours — so check with the venue if you are planning a late meal.

The Waterfront Mart and Stanley Plaza keep different hours

Two things in Stanley keep hours of their own, and neither matches the market lane.

The Stanley Waterfront Mart — the covered public-market building run by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, on the promenade — is posted as open 07:00 to 22:00 daily. Its hours are much longer than the lane's, but the building is all but empty: FEHD's figures show all 20 stalls unlet at the end of 2025, against occupancy of 65% in 2023 and 20% in 2024, and in 2026 a single snack kiosk is the only stall we have found open. FEHD has been trying since February 2026 to hand the whole site to one operator, and no operator has been announced, so a visitor should not count on it for shopping or a meal. The building's status is covered on our Waterfront Mart page.

Stanley Plaza, the air-conditioned Link REIT mall beside the waterfront, keeps longer hours than the lane — generally from early morning to late evening — and individual shops within it set their own. It is the practical rainy-day or beat-the-heat option when the open-air lane is uncomfortable.

Getting there: bus 6 and 6X times and fares

There is no MTR station in Stanley, so most visitors arrive by bus. Citybus routes 6 and 6X both run from Central (Exchange Square) to Stanley Market. The 6X uses the Aberdeen Tunnel and is usually the quicker of the two; the 6 goes over the hill via Wong Nai Chung Gap, which takes longer but gives you the scenery.

Fares are the current Citybus adult fares, paid with Octopus card or cash. Get off at the Stanley Village stop — several stops along the route carry "Stanley" in their name, so watch the announcements. Timings are the normal service window and can vary, so confirm the exact departure on the Citybus app on the day. The step-by-step version is on the bus 6 to Stanley Market page and the getting there hub, which also covers routes from every district.

Best time to visit

Arrive at about 10:30. By then everything is open, you have the morning light for photographs, and you are ahead of the heat and the crowds. Mornings midweek are the calmest; weekend and public-holiday afternoons are the busiest, and the lane can feel crowded and slow then.

The market street is covered, so a rainy day is workable, but the cover also traps heat and Hong Kong summers are hot and humid — the morning start is the comfort argument as well as the crowd one. If you want the waterfront restaurants for dinner, arrive in the afternoon, shop the lane while it is open, then walk down to the promenade in the early evening.

Questions visitors ask

What time does Stanley Market open?

About 10:00 for most shops and stalls. A few open earlier, from around 09:00, but 10:00 is the time to plan around.

What time does Stanley Market close?

Stalls start closing around 18:00 to 18:30, and a few stay until about 19:00. The nearby restaurants and bars stay open later, into the evening.

Is Stanley Market open every day?

Yes — seven days a week, including weekends and public holidays. The only regular closures are around Chinese New Year, when some shops shut for a day or two.

Is Stanley Market open on Sundays?

Yes. Sunday hours are the same as any other day: roughly 10:00 to 18:30.

Is there an entrance fee?

No. Stanley Market is a public market lane, not a ticketed attraction — there is no gate, and entry is free. You pay only for what you buy.

Plan the rest of the trip

• Stanley Market — the main guide
• When to go: weather, seasons and the best time of day
• Getting to Stanley, from every district
• Bus 6, 6A, 6X and 260 to Stanley Market
• What to buy at Stanley Market
• Where to eat in Stanley
• Murray House
• The Stanley Waterfront Mart
• The seasonal guide with the festival calendar

Editorial note: Stanley Market has no single operator and no officially published hours — it is a lane of independent shops. The window above (about 10:00 to 18:30) is the normal trading pattern agreed across this site and independent guides, not a quoted schedule. Bus fares are the current Citybus adult fares; departure times are the normal service window and should be confirmed on the Citybus app on the day.