Currency Converter

The rates here are the European Central Bank's daily reference rates, published once each working day. They are the closest thing there is to a neutral answer to "what is this worth", which is why news reports and accounting systems quote them.

What they are not is what you will get. A bank, a card or a transfer service gives you a slightly worse rate than the reference, and that margin is how they are paid for the transaction. Treat the figure here as what a fair rate looks like, so you can judge whether a quoted rate is reasonable — not as a prediction of what will land in your account.

The rate table is downloaded once when the page opens, through this site rather than directly from the source. Your browser never contacts a third party, and the conversion itself happens here, which means the amount you type is never transmitted anywhere. For a tool people use to work out salaries, invoices and transfers, that is worth stating plainly.

Around thirty currencies are covered — the ones the ECB publishes, which includes everything commonly needed: the dollar, euro, pound, rupee, yen and the major Asian, European and American currencies. It does not include every currency in the world, and it does not cover cryptocurrencies, which have no official reference rate.

If the rates cannot be fetched, the tool says so and refuses to convert rather than falling back on a stale or invented number. A currency converter that quietly guesses is worse than one that admits it does not know.