Historical exchange rates
Pick a date, an amount and two currencies and see what the amount was worth on that day, using the European Central Bank's reference rate. Below it a chart shows how the same pair moved over the last month to year, with the lowest, highest and average. About 30 major currencies are covered, from 4 January 1999.
Rate on a date
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Rate chart: USD / EUR
Reference rates published once per business day by the European Central Bank (via Frankfurter). They are not what a bank or card charged on that day, and fees are not included.
How it works
- •Choose the amount, the currency you start with and the one you want, then pick a date. The result shows the rate of that day and the converted amount.
- •The bank publishes rates only on business days. If you pick a weekend or a holiday, the page uses the previous business day and tells you which date it used.
- •The chart below draws the same pair for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year. Move over it, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to read the rate of a day. The lowest, highest, average and the change from the first to the last day are listed under it.
- •Prefer numbers? Open the table under the chart to see every day in the period.
What it does and what it cannot do
- •Only the roughly 30 currencies the European Central Bank publishes are available, such as USD, EUR, GBP, JPY and CNY. Others, and some currencies before they were added, return no rate.
- •These are reference rates fixed once per business day, not the rate a bank or card actually used and not including fees. Do not use them as proof of a transaction rate.
- •The chart covers at most about one year, and only business days, so weekends appear as straight stretches between Friday and Monday.
- •Rates before 1999 and for the euro's predecessors are not included.
Questions
- Where do the historical rates come from?
- From the European Central Bank's euro foreign exchange reference rates, served through the free Frankfurter service. The page shows the source with a link.
- Why does the page show a different date from the one I picked?
- The bank publishes rates only on business days. For a weekend or a holiday the page uses the last business day before it, and says so above the result.
- Which currencies are covered?
- About 30: AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CNY, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, HUF, IDR, ILS, INR, ISK, JPY, KRW, MXN, MYR, NOK, NZD, PHP, PLN, RON, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, USD and ZAR. The list is set by the bank and can change.
- How far back can I go?
- To 4 January 1999, when the euro started. Some currencies were added to the bank's list later and have no rate before that.
- How is a rate between two non-euro currencies worked out?
- The bank states every rate against the euro. The service divides one by the other to get the pair you asked for, for example USD to CNY.
- Is the rate on a given day the rate I would have got?
- No. It is the mid-market reference rate fixed that day. A bank or card would have used its own rate with a margin and perhaps a fee.