Currency Trackers

Major foreign-exchange pairs against the U.S. dollar — euro, pound, yen, Canadian dollar, and Swiss franc — pulled fresh from the European Central Bank's reference rates.

The U.S. dollar's exchange rate against the world's major currencies is one of the cleanest signals of relative economic strength. When the dollar strengthens against the euro or yen, U.S. interest rates are usually relatively higher, U.S. growth relatively stronger, or global risk-aversion relatively elevated. When the dollar weakens, the opposite is in play. Exchange rates move in real time on every macroeconomic data point.

Our Currency trackers cover the major dollar pairs — EUR/USD (the world's most-traded pair), GBP/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, and USD/CHF. Each tracker shows the live rate, day-over-day change, year-over-year change, and a multi-year history chart. Rates pull from the European Central Bank's daily reference fixings via the free Frankfurter API.

These rates matter in concrete ways. If you're traveling abroad, you're negotiating the exchange-rate spread with your bank or card. If you're an exporter, the dollar's strength against your customer's currency can swing the price competitiveness of your product by 10% in a year. If you hold international stocks or bonds, currency moves change your dollar-denominated returns. Watch the dollar to understand the price of global participation.

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Major exchange-rate pairs versus the U.S. dollar.

EUR / USD Exchange Rate European Central Bank reference rate — Euros per U.S. Dollar. LIVE 1.1600 -0.0034 GBP / USD Exchange Rate Cable — the dollar value of one British pound sterling. LIVE 1.2745 +0.0028 USD / JPY Exchange Rate Dollar-yen — the second-most traded crosspair globally. LIVE 148.65 0 USD / CAD Exchange Rate The loonie — Canadian dollars per U.S. dollar. Tracks crude oil closely. LIVE 1.3675 -0.0035 USD / CHF Exchange Rate Swissie — safe-haven Swiss franc per U.S. dollar. LIVE 0.8945 -0.0024

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Who Watches These Trackers?

Travelers

See how your dollars convert against the euro, pound, yen, and other major currencies before a trip.

Importers / Exporters

Track the pairs you settle in and watch trend strength to time invoicing and hedging.

Investors

Monitor dollar strength as a relative-performance indicator for international stocks, bonds, and emerging markets.

Frequently Asked Questions

The rate we show is the wholesale interbank fixing rate — the rate banks settle large international transfers at. Retail banks and card networks add a spread (typically 1% to 4%) when converting your money. The interbank rate is the benchmark; your retail rate is always less favorable. Compare your bank's exchange rate to ours to see how big a cut they're taking.

It means 1 euro buys 1.08 U.S. dollars (the dollar is the quote currency). Equivalently, 1 U.S. dollar buys 1 / 1.08 = ~0.93 euros. When EUR/USD rises, the euro is strengthening (or the dollar weakening). When EUR/USD falls, the dollar is strengthening against the euro.

Because the yen is a smaller-denominated unit by historical convention — 1 dollar buys 148.50 yen at that quote. There's no economic significance to the absolute number; it's just the convention. To compare yen strength across periods, watch the percentage change, not the level.

The European Central Bank publishes reference rates once per business day around 16:00 CET, and our trackers refresh from Frankfurter daily after that. For real-time intraday rates, use a forex broker or international transfer service. Our purpose is the historical and trend view, not minute-by-minute trading data.

EUR/USD is the most-traded pair in the world and the most-cited measure of the dollar's strength. The dollar index (DXY) is a weighted basket of six currencies (euro 58%, yen 14%, pound 12%, Canadian dollar 9%, Swedish krona 4%, Swiss franc 4%). Watching EUR/USD gives you 58% of the dollar index story. We may add the dollar index as a future tracker.