Currency and formatting
- Currency
- Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
- Symbol
- HK$ — placed before the amount
- Decimal places
- 2
- Formatted example
- HK$ 123,456.78
- Thousands separator
- ,
- Decimal separator
- .
- Digit grouping
- threes (3)
- Live rate
- 1 USD = 7.839713961803 HKD (ecb, 2026-07-16)
Tax
Hong Kong has no single national consumption tax that applies at a checkout. We report this as a null rather than inventing a rate.
Payment methods in Hong Kong
Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.
- 01 card
- 02 alipay hk
- 03 octopus
- 04 payme
- 05 wechat pay hk
- 06 apple pay
Card schemes that work domestically: visa, mastercard, unionpay, amex, jcb. 3-D Secure is standard practice; strong customer authentication is not legally mandated.
Locale
- Primary
- zh-HK
- Also used
- en-HK
- Official languages
- Chinese (Traditional), English
- Direction
- left-to-right
- Date format
- DD/MM/YYYY
- Measurement
- metric
- GDPR applies
- no
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +852
- Mobile format
- +852 XXXX XXXX
- Digits
- 8
Hong Kong: common questions
What currency does Hong Kong use?
Hong Kong uses the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), symbol HK$. It uses 2 decimal places, formatted as HK$ 123,456.78.
How many decimal places does HKD have?
HKD has 2 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.
Is there sales tax in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong has no single national consumption-tax rate that applies to a checkout.
What payment methods are used in Hong Kong?
The methods that matter in Hong Kong, in rough order of use: card, alipay hk, octopus, payme, wechat pay hk, apple pay.
What is the dialling code for Hong Kong?
Hong Kong's country calling code is +852. Mobile numbers are formatted +852 XXXX XXXX (8 digits after the country code).
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