Currency Converter

Which rate this uses

Every working day around 16:00 Central European Time the European Central Bank publishes euro foreign exchange reference rates for about 30 currencies. They come from a daily concertation between central banks and are the standard reference for contracts, accounting and statistics in Europe. This converter uses the latest published table and shows its date next to every result.

Reference rates are mid-market rates: the midpoint between buying and selling. Your bank, card or exchange office adds a spread or fee on top, so the amount you actually receive will usually be a little lower. On weekends and TARGET holidays no new table is published and the previous working day's rates stay current.

Worked example

With EUR/USD at 1.1650 and EUR/BRL at 6.3000, 100 US dollars is worth 100 × 6.3000 ÷ 1.1650 ≈ 540.77 Brazilian reais. The converter first turns dollars into euros, then euros into reais, exactly as the ECB's cross-rate method does.

For amounts that matter — invoices, rent abroad, tax filings — use the rate your bank or the tax authority specifies for the date in question; many tax authorities publish their own official rates.

The ECB publishes how many units of each currency one euro buys (for example USD 1.1650). To convert between two non-euro currencies the converter goes through the euro:

rate(from → to) = rate_EUR→to ÷ rate_EUR→from
result = amount × rate(from → to)

Rates are fetched from the ECB at most once an hour; one lookup per currency pair counts towards the daily limit, and changing the amount is recalculated in your browser. Results are not rounded until they are displayed.