Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Foreign Exchange Rates The table below shows the average rates of exchange in JULY 2011 together with comparable figures for other months. Averages are based on daily noon buying rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (Currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
Release Date: August 1, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in JULY 2011 together with comparable figures for other months. Averages are based on daily noon buying rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

COUNTRY CURRENCY July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 July 2010
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0781 1.0617 1.0675 0.8786
BRAZIL REAL 1.5625 1.5854 1.6136 1.7689
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9553 0.9766 0.9680 1.0422
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.4575 6.4746 6.4957 6.7762
DENMARK KRONE 5.2230 5.1782 5.2030 5.8179
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4275 1.4403 1.4335 1.2811
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7892 7.7850 7.7742 7.7753
INDIA RUPEE 44.3960 44.8109 44.9024 46.7617
JAPAN YEN 79.2425 80.4259 81.1257 87.5005
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.9924 3.0269 3.0127 3.2035
MEXICO PESO 11.6741 11.8055 11.6542 12.8038
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8480 0.8157 0.7959 0.7145
NORWAY KRONE 5.4502 5.4366 5.4766 6.2633
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2158 1.2336 1.2387 1.3756
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.7871 6.7859 6.8556 7.5212
SOUTH KOREA WON 1057.4250 1080.4523 1084.3619 1203.8095
SRI LANKA RUPEE 109.4570 109.5391 109.7629 112.9571
SWEDEN KRONA 6.3957 6.3273 6.2526 7.4066
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.8214 0.8401 0.8740 1.0530
TAIWAN DOLLAR 28.8350 28.8118 28.7262 32.0935
THAILAND BAHT 30.0475 30.4995 30.2210 32.2895
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6158 1.6219 1.6332 1.5304
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.1464 4.2896
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 94.8379 95.4767 95.4866 103.5441
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 69.3436 69.7637 69.8523 77.0063
3) OITP JAN97=100 122.5113 123.4082 123.2974 131.7955

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5.
For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-8, (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect with the May 2009 release of this report. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg.
* U.S. dollars per currency unit.
1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.
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The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-area currencies. These currency rates can be derived from the dollar/euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below:

1 EURO

  • = 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS
  • = 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS
  • = .585274 CYPRUS POUND
  • = 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
  • = 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
  • = 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
  • = 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
  • = .787564 IRISH POUNDS
  • = 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
  • = 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
  • = .429300 MALTESE LIRA
  • = 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
  • = 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
  • = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
  • = 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
  • = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR
Last update: August 1, 2011