Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: February 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 JANUARY 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 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 January 2012
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0500 1.0465 1.0405 1.0415
BRAZIL REAL 2.0281 2.0775 2.0662 1.7850
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9921 0.9898 0.9970 1.0130
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2215 6.2328 6.2338 6.3172
DENMARK KRONE 5.6087 5.6864 5.8100 5.7599
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3304 1.3119 1.2837 1.2910
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7530 7.7501 7.7505 7.7622
INDIA RUPEE 54.2290 54.6470 54.7845 51.0015
JAPAN YEN 89.0581 83.7905 81.0305 76.9640
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0407 3.0537 3.0555 3.1092
MEXICO PESO 12.6964 12.8651 13.0639 13.3829
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8370 0.8312 0.8195 0.8015
NORWAY KRONE 5.5500 5.6103 5.7180 5.9424
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2282 1.2204 1.2232 1.2777
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.7978 8.6116 8.7994 8.0025
SOUTH KOREA WON 1066.5205 1075.2225 1086.9525 1140.3275
SRI LANKA RUPEE 126.7200 128.0360 130.2340 113.8195
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4801 6.5936 6.7059 6.8463
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9234 0.9213 0.9388 0.9376
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.1000 29.0445 29.1145 29.9900
THAILAND BAHT 30.0410 30.6155 30.6945 31.5060
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5965 1.6145 1.5968 1.5524
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 98.9354 99.0074 99.5862 99.8333
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.5437 73.0996 73.5981 73.3481
3) OITP JAN97=100 126.1646 126.9327 127.5777 128.4884

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 1, 2013