Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: April 1, 2016

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 2016 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 2016 February 2016 January 2016 March 2015
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7504 0.7134 0.7011 0.7724
BRAZIL REAL 3.6980 3.9644 4.0556 3.1414
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3226 1.3797 1.4208 1.2618
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5027 6.5501 6.5726 6.2386
DENMARK KRONE 6.6986 6.7287 6.8743 6.8954
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1134 1.1092 1.0855 1.0819
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7604 7.7829 7.7812 7.7584
INDIA RUPEE 66.8909 68.2395 67.3332 62.4805
JAPAN YEN 112.9317 114.6155 118.2258 120.3945
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.0644 4.1780 4.3388 3.6793
MEXICO PESO 17.6303 18.4332 18.0648 15.2375
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6745 0.6633 0.6534 0.7460
NORWAY KRONE 8.4754 8.6127 8.8194 7.9952
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3724 1.4052 1.4325 1.3770
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 15.3792 15.7622 16.3250 12.0884
SOUTH KOREA WON 1181.5730 1216.2285 1203.3179 1112.9005
SRI LANKA RUPEE 145.1335 143.6390 143.5505 132.9500
SWEDEN KRONA 8.3394 8.4804 8.5483 8.5448
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9811 0.9920 1.0082 0.9798
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.5874 33.2385 33.4332 31.4382
THAILAND BAHT 35.2117 35.5955 36.1226 32.6245
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4249 1.4290 1.4392 1.4958
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 8.6912 6.2842 6.2842 6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 121.4930 124.0358 125.1504 116.2852
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 91.4980 93.1671 95.2895 91.7395
3) OITP JAN97=100 153.4873 157.0112 156.8206 141.8970

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, 2016