Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: May 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 APRIL 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 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 April 2012
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0380 1.0345 1.0310 1.0350
BRAZIL REAL 2.0011 1.9842 1.9729 1.8522
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0187 1.0244 1.0098 0.9928
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.1861 6.2154 6.2323 6.3043
DENMARK KRONE 5.7235 5.7552 5.5894 5.6529
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3025 1.2953 1.3347 1.3160
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7631 7.7592 7.7552 7.7621
INDIA RUPEE 54.3236 54.4229 53.8079 51.6900
JAPAN YEN 97.7582 94.7700 93.0016 81.2524
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0480 3.1074 3.0964 3.0586
MEXICO PESO 12.2061 12.5000 12.7249 13.0559
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8479 0.8284 0.8385 0.8180
NORWAY KRONE 5.7935 5.7806 5.5648 5.7521
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2380 1.2466 1.2382 1.2510
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.1007 9.1927 8.8766 7.8329
SOUTH KOREA WON 1120.8977 1102.8710 1087.3084 1135.0238
SRI LANKA RUPEE 125.9673 126.7005 126.7342 128.4248
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4867 6.4455 6.3756 6.7359
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9366 0.9466 0.9212 0.9133
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.8268 29.7448 29.6321 29.4433
THAILAND BAHT 29.0573 29.4948 29.8105 30.8614
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5311 1.5080 1.5474 1.6000
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 6.2842 6.2842 5.6554 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.3465 100.6782 99.7849 99.0122
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 76.1837 76.1993 74.5691 72.7917
3) OITP JAN97=100 125.8563 126.5803 126.7199 127.3667

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: May 1, 2013