Forex · British pound vs Chinese yuan (offshore)

GBPCNH price

CNH+0.00457 (+0.05%) today
Bid 8.90862Ask 8.91280Spread 0.00418Updated 20:54:59 UTC
Market closedOpens Sun 22:01 UTC
Day range
8.89541 to 8.93281
374.0 pips so far today
Previous close
8.90405
The last session's close
52 week range
8.80020 to 9.61618
High set 27 Jan 2026
Average day range
404.7 pips
Last 90 trading days

How GBPCNH moves through the day

Average GBPCNH range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2023.

Average range by session

Asia 00:00 to 07:000.24% · about 212.0 pips today
London 07:00 to 12:000.30% · about 269.0 pips today
London and New York 12:00 to 16:000.34% · about 304.7 pips today
New York afternoon 16:00 to 21:000.22% · about 195.1 pips today

Busiest hours (UTC)

00 to 11 top row12 to 23 bottom row

GBPCNH moves most from 12:00 to 16:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 04:00 UTC.

Size a GBPCNH trade

One standard lot of GBPCNH is 100,000 units on most brokers. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.

Position size
0.50 lots
Risking 100.00 CNH · 5.00 CNH per pip
Your GBPCNH trades

See your own GBPCNH trades on this chart

Connect your broker once. Every GBPCNH entry and exit lands on the chart, your journal and rules sit beside it, and Edge learns from your trades to show you the one thing to fix next. Then practice it on GBPCNH in the backtester before you trade it live.

Example: your entry (green) and exit (red) drawn where they happened.
EdgeExample: "Most of your GBPCNH losses come in the first 15 minutes after New York opens. Try waiting for the first 15 minute candle to close."

GBPCNH questions

GBPCNH is the price of one GBP in CNH. GBP is the base currency and CNH is the quote currency, so the price tells you how many Chinese yuan one GBP costs.

Each broker quotes its own bid and ask from its own liquidity providers, so prices can differ a little from broker to broker. The prices here are indicative bid quotes. Spreads also widen around big news and when the market opens.

GBPCNH trades 24 hours a day, five days a week, from 17:00 New York time on Sunday to 17:00 New York time on Friday. It is busiest when London and New York are both open, roughly 12:00 to 16:00 UTC.

On most brokers one standard lot of GBPCNH is 100,000 GBP, so a one pip move (0.0001) is worth 10.00 CNH a lot, and 0.01 lots moves 0.10 CNH a pip. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.

Mostly what traders expect the Bank of England to do with interest rates, inflation and jobs data from both economies, and how much risk markets want to take.