Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: April 1, 2013

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 MARCH 2013 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 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 March 2012
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0345 1.0310 1.0500 1.0526
BRAZIL REAL 1.9842 1.9729 2.0281 1.7953
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0244 1.0098 0.9921 0.9938
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2154 6.2323 6.2215 6.3125
DENMARK KRONE 5.7552 5.5894 5.6087 5.6294
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2953 1.3347 1.3304 1.3208
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7592 7.7552 7.7530 7.7620
INDIA RUPEE 54.4229 53.8079 54.2290 50.3635
JAPAN YEN 94.7700 93.0016 89.0581 82.4659
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1074 3.0964 3.0407 3.0444
MEXICO PESO 12.5000 12.7249 12.6964 12.7523
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8284 0.8385 0.8370 0.8201
NORWAY KRONE 5.7806 5.5648 5.5500 5.7074
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2466 1.2382 1.2282 1.2590
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.1927 8.8766 8.7978 7.6071
SOUTH KOREA WON 1102.8710 1087.3084 1066.5205 1126.1700
SRI LANKA RUPEE 126.7005 126.7342 126.7200 125.6605
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4455 6.3756 6.4801 6.7319
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9466 0.9212 0.9234 0.9131
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.7448 29.6321 29.1000 29.5158
THAILAND BAHT 29.4948 29.8105 30.0410 30.7036
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5080 1.5474 1.5965 1.5824
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 6.2842 5.6554 4.2893 4.2895
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.6782 99.7849 98.9354 98.6969
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 76.1993 74.5691 73.5437 72.9137
3) OITP JAN97=100 126.5803 126.7199 126.1646 126.4755

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
  • = 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
  • = 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: April 1, 2013