Currency Converter
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Convert between 30 currencies at the European Central Bank's official daily rate.
- Type an amount and pick the currency you are converting from.
- Pick the currency you want it in — the answer appears as you type.
- Check the rate and publication date shown underneath, and copy either the figure or the whole line.
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About this tool
A currency converter that tells you where its numbers come from. Every rate here is the European Central Bank's daily reference rate, published once each working day at about 16:00 Central European Time and used by accountants, tax authorities and auditors across the EU as the official figure for a given date. That makes it the right tool for converting an invoice, an expense claim or a tax return, where what matters is a defensible published rate rather than the price at this exact second. It is the wrong tool for trading, and this page will not pretend otherwise: the ECB publishes once a day, so a rate here can be up to twenty-four hours old, and it is a mid-market reference rate with no spread or fee in it. Your bank will give you less. Thirty-odd currencies are covered — the euro plus everything the ECB quotes against it, including the dollar, pound, yen, franc and the Nordic and central European currencies. Conversions between two non-euro currencies go through the euro, which is exactly how the ECB's own table works. The rate and the date it was published are shown with every answer, so you can cite them.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the exchange rates come from?
The European Central Bank's daily reference rates, published once each working day at around 16:00 CET. They are the official rates used for accounting and tax purposes across the EU, and the page shows the exact date the set you are seeing was published.
Are these live, real-time rates?
No, and that is deliberate. The ECB publishes once per working day, so a rate can be up to twenty-four hours old, and no new set is published at weekends or on ECB holidays. If you need a live trading price this is the wrong tool; if you need a rate you can defend to an accountant, it is the right one.
Why is the rate different from what my bank charged me?
Because this is a mid-market reference rate with nothing added. A bank or card issuer adds a spread and often a fee on top, so the amount you actually pay is usually one to three per cent worse. Use this to check whether a charge looks reasonable, not to predict it exactly.
Can I convert between two currencies that are not the euro?
Yes. The ECB quotes everything against the euro, so a conversion like pounds to dollars goes through the euro in one step. That is the same arithmetic the ECB's own cross-rate table uses, and the effective rate is shown so you can see it.
Which currencies are supported?
The euro and every currency the ECB quotes against it — around thirty, including the US dollar, British pound, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish krone, Polish zloty, Czech koruna and the major Asian and Pacific currencies. Anything the ECB stops quoting disappears from the list on its own.
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