Sham Shui Po Opening Hours

Other pages on this site give Sham Shui Po different opening times. They disagree with each other and none of them quotes the market operator. This page is the single place to check: every time below comes from the market operator or a government source, and where an hour could not be confirmed we say so rather than guess. If you only remember one thing, make it this — the government markets open early and shut at 8:00 p.m., and Apliu Street does not really start until midday.

Government public market hours

These are the four public markets the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) lists for the Sham Shui Po district. FEHD publishes one daily trading span for each; it does not list a separate Sunday or public-holiday timetable, so the same hours apply seven days a week.

These are FEHD’s published market hours, and stall-level variation exists: an individual trader within a market may open late or pack up early. Pei Ho Street Market is the largest, with 234 stalls covering fresh fish, vegetables, meat, poultry, fruit and cooked food.

Apliu Street: the hours that actually matter

For the electronics and flea market most visitors come for, the figure that matters is not a shop opening time but the pedestrian-precinct schedule. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board, Apliu Street becomes a pedestrian precinct from noon every day and closes at 9:00 p.m. on weekdays; at weekends and on public holidays it comes alive after dark with extended shopping hours.

That is why you will find different Apliu Street times on this site — “10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.”, “10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Monday–Saturday)” and “11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.”. None of those is an operator-sourced figure; the noon pedestrianisation and the 9:00 p.m. weekday close are. Plan around midday and later, not around a 10:00 a.m. opening.

Apliu Street sells phone accessories, audio and electrical cables, batteries, film cameras, alarm clocks and second-hand devices such as radios and vintage typewriters. Once the stalls begin closing, see what is still open late in the district.

Sundays and public holidays

The question readers actually ask is whether a Sunday trip works. For the government markets the answer is yes: FEHD publishes a single span of 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. with no Sunday exclusion and no separate public-holiday closure. For Apliu Street the tourism board is explicit that weekends and public holidays bring extended hours, so a Sunday evening is the livelier time to go.

What this page will not do is tell you which day is “busiest” or which hour is “best”. No primary source publishes crowd levels by day or hour, so any such claim is guesswork.

Plan around the clock

Everything below is drawn from the verified hours above, so you can time a visit without a shop-by-shop list:

• 6:00 a.m.: the FEHD markets open for the early fresh-produce trade.
• Noon: Apliu Street closes to traffic and the flea market sets up.
• Afternoon: the fabric and jade market inside Tung Chau Street Temporary Market trades through the FEHD window.
• 8:00 p.m.: the FEHD markets close.
• 9:00 p.m.: Apliu Street’s weekday close — later at weekends and on public holidays.
• Until 2:00 a.m.: the cooked food centres at Pei Ho Street and Po On Road keep serving; see the food tour guide.

MTR and getting home

Sham Shui Po station is on the MTR Tsuen Wan Line, and trains run frequently enough that you only need to think about the timetable late at night. The published frequencies are:

For first and last train times at Sham Shui Po, use MTR’s own service-hours search — the operator is the only current source, and we do not print first or last times here. Our transportation hub guide and how to get to Sham Shui Po page cover the walk from each exit to the markets.

What we could not verify

Mall-level opening hours in Sham Shui Po are set by the operators and change without notice. We could not confirm current centre-wide hours for Golden Computer Arcade, Golden Computer Centre or Dragon Centre from the operators at the time of writing, so we have not printed any. Before planning a trip around a particular mall, check the operator’s own website. The same applies to individual shops and cafés: there is no single reliable source for shop-by-shop hours, so this page does not publish a list of them.

Frequently asked questions

What time do Sham Shui Po markets open?

The four FEHD public markets — Pei Ho Street, Tung Chau Street Temporary (including the Jade and Fabric Market), Po On Road and Lai Wan — open at 6:00 a.m. daily. (Source: FEHD.)

Are Sham Shui Po markets open on Sundays?

Yes. FEHD publishes a single daily span of 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. with no Sunday or public-holiday exclusion. (Source: FEHD.)

What time does Apliu Street close?

Apliu Street becomes pedestrian-only from noon and closes at 9:00 p.m. on weekdays, staying open later at weekends and on public holidays. (Source: Hong Kong Tourism Board.)

When is the Sham Shui Po fabric market open?

The fabric market is part of Tung Chau Street Temporary Market, which trades 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily. (Source: FEHD.)

Related guides and sources

More on the district: the full Sham Shui Po markets guide, Apliu Street electronics market, fabric market wholesale shopping, the night market, the food tour guide, how to get here and the events calendar.

Sources: FEHD public markets, Sham Shui Po district; Hong Kong Tourism Board, late-night shopping; MTR train service.