- The Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2026 runs 13 to 16 October 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, organised by HKTDC.
- electronicAsia, the components and technology counterpart, runs on the same dates at the same venue.
- The separately organised Global Sources consumer electronics show runs 11 to 14 October 2026 at AsiaWorld-Expo, near the airport.
- HKTDC reports 2,898 exhibitors and 60,000 physical buyers for the 2025 edition of the autumn fair.
- This is a new-product and components show. Its value to secondary-market traders is upstream intelligence, not graded stock on the floor.
When and where is the Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2026?
The HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2026 runs from Tuesday 13 October to Friday 16 October 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. It is organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the territory's statutory trade promotion body, and is a trade-only event. HKTDC also runs an online matching component, Click2Match, from 6 to 23 October 2026, and its hktdc.com Sourcing platform from 13 September to 12 November 2026.
Those online windows are worth noting before you plan flights. The matching component opens a week ahead of the physical fair, which means the productive way to use it is to shortlist and message suppliers before you land rather than after you get home. Details and registration are on the official HKTDC event site.
Hong Kong October 2026 at a glance
| Event | Dates (2026) | Venue | Organiser |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Sources consumer electronics show | 11 to 14 October | AsiaWorld-Expo | Global Sources |
| Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) | 13 to 16 October | Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre | HKTDC |
| electronicAsia | 13 to 16 October | Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre | HKTDC |
| Click2Match (online) | 6 to 23 October | Online | HKTDC |
| hktdc.com Sourcing (online) | 13 September to 12 November | Online | HKTDC |
Sources: HKTDC event pages for the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) and electronicAsia; Global Sources show listings. Confirm all dates with the organisers before booking.
What the fair actually is
The Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) is a manufacturer-facing sourcing exhibition. Exhibitors are factories, brand owners, ODMs and OEMs presenting current and forthcoming product; buyers are importers, distributors, retail chains, e-commerce operators and trading companies looking for supply. HKTDC reported 2,898 exhibitors from 17 countries and regions and 60,000 physical buyers from 142 countries and regions for the 2025 autumn edition.
The autumn edition sits deliberately in the pre-holiday ordering window. By mid-October, buyers are placing orders that need to clear factories for the following spring, which is why the show reveals next year's specification direction more clearly than most events in the calendar.
The floor is organised into themed zones rather than a flat grid of booths. HKTDC lists a Hall of Fame, RISE Avenue, a Tech Hall, a Startup Zone, a RoboPark and an Immersive Experience Zone. That structure is useful: it lets a buyer with limited time cover a category cluster in an afternoon instead of walking the whole venue.
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Who exhibits, and what that means for buyers
Exhibitors skew heavily toward mainland Chinese and Hong Kong manufacturers, with representation from Taiwan, Korea, Japan and a smaller international contingent. The product mix runs across audio, home and kitchen electronics, wearables, smart home and connected products, computer peripherals, gaming, auto electronics, and mobile accessories. electronicAsia, running concurrently, covers components, semiconductors, production technology and electronic manufacturing services.
For a wholesale buyer the important read is that this is a supply-side show. Nearly everyone with a booth is trying to sell you manufacturing capacity or finished product from a factory. That makes it excellent for accessory and component sourcing, for finding an ODM to build a house brand, and for benchmarking what a category should cost at volume. It is not a market for graded used handsets, and expecting one is the most common mistake first-time secondary-market attendees make.
If your interest is the mainland supply base behind those booths, the fair is also a practical staging point. Many buyers pair the Hong Kong week with factory visits over the border, which our guide to Shenzhen sourcing covers in detail. The rail link from Hong Kong to Shenzhen makes a day trip realistic if you build it into the schedule rather than improvising it.
How it differs from the other Hong Kong October shows
Hong Kong's October week is not one event. Two separate organisers run overlapping fairs at two venues on opposite ends of the territory. HKTDC runs the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) and electronicAsia at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai from 13 to 16 October 2026. Global Sources runs its consumer electronics show at AsiaWorld-Expo, adjacent to the airport, from 11 to 14 October 2026.
The differences that matter in practice are venue distance, exhibitor profile and overlap. AsiaWorld-Expo and the Wan Chai convention centre are roughly forty minutes apart by rail, so a single day covering both is possible but costly in time. The exhibitor bases only partially overlap: the HKTDC fair leans toward established brands and larger manufacturers, while the Global Sources floor is traditionally heavier on accessories, mobile-adjacent product and smaller factories. And because 13 and 14 October fall inside both events in 2026, those two days are the pinch point for anyone trying to cover the whole week.
We cover the other side of that week in our guide to Global Sources Hong Kong in October 2026. Read both before building a schedule.
How wholesale and secondary-market traders work the week
Traders in used and refurbished devices do not come to Hong Kong in October to buy from the halls. They come because everyone else in the supply chain is in the same city for one week, and because the show floor is the clearest available signal on what is entering the channel next. The fair is the reason people are there; the deals happen around it.
Four patterns are worth borrowing.
- Use the floor as a forecasting tool. What launches into the primary market this autumn is what hits the secondary market in two to three years. Walking the zones tells you which specifications, battery capacities and connectivity standards will define grading and repair economics later. Our note on the relationship between the primary and secondary markets sets out why that lag is so predictable.
- Book meetings outside the halls. Hong Kong's density is the real asset. Trading houses, freight forwarders, testing labs and inspection firms all have people in town that week, and a hotel lobby meeting costs you thirty minutes instead of half a day.
- Source the adjacent categories. Accessories, cables, chargers, cases and replacement parts are genuinely well served on the floor and travel well alongside a device business. Our guide to buying accessories in bulk covers what to check before committing to a container.
- Treat Hong Kong itself as the destination, not just the fair. The territory is a standing hub for device trading, with established re-export flows, testing capacity and warehousing. Our overview of Hong Kong as a wholesale electronics hub explains why so many secondary flows route through it year-round.
Practical logistics for October week
October is Hong Kong's peak exhibition season and the calendar is compressed. Hotel availability tightens well before the fairs open, and the two main venues sit at opposite ends of the MTR network. Planning the week as a routing problem rather than a list of events saves more time than any other preparation step.
A workable structure for covering both venues in 2026: land the weekend before 11 October, spend the first two days at AsiaWorld-Expo while the Global Sources show runs on its own, use 13 and 14 October for the HKTDC halls in Wan Chai, and reserve 15 and 16 October for meetings, warehouse visits and any Shenzhen crossing.
Two more details worth planning for. Both venues are trade-only, so bring the business documentation that supports a trade registration rather than assuming a business card will do. And badge collection queues on the opening morning are the largest avoidable time loss of the week, which is the practical argument for registering online in advance.
What to prepare before you go
The buyers who leave Hong Kong with signed business are almost always the ones who arrived with a defined position and complete paperwork. The fair compresses months of supplier conversations into four days, and a supplier who has to wait two weeks for your company documents will have filled the capacity by the time you send them.
- Company documentation, digitised. Registration certificate, VAT or tax number, proof of address, bank details and any trade licences, in one folder you can send from your phone. Our checklist of the documents wholesale counterparties normally ask for covers the standard set.
- A written buying brief. Categories, target specifications, quantities, target landed cost and destination market. Precision is what gets you a serious quote.
- Your landed-cost math done in advance. A quoted unit price at a fair means very little until duty, freight and handling are on top of it. Work it before you negotiate, not after.
- A shortlist from the online components. Click2Match opens 6 October, a week before the halls. Use it to book the meetings you actually want.
- A follow-up system. Photograph every booth card against the product it relates to, and write the note the same evening. A week of booth cards with no context is worth almost nothing by November.
The wider point is that a trade fair solves the discovery problem for one week a year. For the other fifty-one, discovery is the constraint that shapes how fast a trading business can move.
That is where Aikon fits. Aikon is a discovery platform for registered trading companies: members post buy and sell offers, browse a live feed of what other verified companies are trading, and connect directly with each other. Aikon holds no funds and takes no part in the transaction itself. It is free to join, and it means the counterparties you meet in Hong Kong stay reachable year-round. Our calendar of electronics trade shows in 2026 covers the rest of the year.