Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: February 1, 2017

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 JANUARY 2017 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 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 January 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7465 0.7346 0.7532 0.7011
BRAZIL REAL 3.1901 3.3540 3.3369 4.0556
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3183 1.3339 1.3434 1.4208
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8907 6.9198 6.8402 6.5726
DENMARK KRONE 6.9919 7.0524 6.8973 6.8743
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.0635 1.0545 1.0792 1.0855
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7560 7.7586 7.7560 7.7812
INDIA RUPEE 68.0474 67.8052 67.6395 67.3332
JAPAN YEN 114.8721 115.9981 108.4430 118.2258
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.4550 4.4573 4.3259 4.3388
MEXICO PESO 21.3911 20.4992 20.0086 18.0648
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7132 0.7039 0.7153 0.6534
NORWAY KRONE 8.4570 8.5617 8.4147 8.8194
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4276 1.4358 1.4105 1.4325
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.5446 13.8377 13.9125 16.3250
SOUTH KOREA WON 1179.1074 1183.0700 1162.7080 1203.3179
SRI LANKA RUPEE 149.8342 148.8152 147.8100 143.5505
SWEDEN KRONA 8.9451 9.2070 9.1266 8.5483
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0075 1.0194 0.9963 1.0082
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.6458 32.0005 31.7495 33.4332
THAILAND BAHT 35.4289 35.7776 35.3345 36.1226
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2367 1.2483 1.2432 1.4392
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9756 6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 127.6180 127.7405 125.8049 124.9293
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 94.6655 95.4259 93.6646 95.0619
3) OITP JAN97=100 162.9528 162.2527 160.1957 156.5086

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: February 01, 2017