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📊 African currency rates today

Mid-market US dollar exchange rates for the currencies of the markets Rateweb covers, plus the major currencies money arrives from.

Mid-market rates as of Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:02:31 +0000 · refreshed daily · Rates by Exchange Rate API (exchangerate-api.com), open endpoint

African currencies

Code	Currency	1 USD buys	1 unit in USD
ZAR	South African rand	16.0924	0.0621
NGN	Nigerian naira	1,338.68	0.000747
KES	Kenyan shilling	129.46	0.007725
GHS	Ghanaian cedi	11.2533	0.0889
TZS	Tanzanian shilling	2,642.80	0.000378
UGX	Ugandan shilling	3,725.44	0.000268
RWF	Rwandan franc	1,477.29	0.000677
ZMW	Zambian kwacha	19.0802	0.0524
MWK	Malawian kwacha	1,746.71	0.000573
XAF	Central African CFA franc	565.01	0.001770
BWP	Botswana pula	13.7381	0.0728
SSP	South Sudanese pound	5,804.74	0.000172
SDG	Sudanese pound	544.85	0.001835

Major currencies

Code	Currency	1 USD buys	1 unit in USD
EUR	Euro	0.86135	1.1610
GBP	British pound	0.73787	1.3553
CNY	Chinese yuan	6.7421	0.1483
INR	Indian rupee	95.5339	0.0105
AED	UAE dirham	3.6725	0.2723
SAR	Saudi riyal	3.7500	0.2667
CAD	Canadian dollar	1.3888	0.7201
AUD	Australian dollar	1.3946	0.7171

Converting an actual amount? The currency converter uses these same rates and handles any pair directly — including cross rates like naira to shillings.

How to read this table

"1 USD buys" is how many units of the currency one US dollar exchanges for at the mid-market rate. A rising number over time means that currency is weakening against the dollar; a falling number means it is strengthening.
"1 unit in USD" is the same rate from the other side — what a single rand, naira or shilling is worth in dollars.
These are mid-market reference rates — the midpoint of global buying and selling prices. No bank, bureau or transfer service deals at this rate; each adds a margin. The rate you are offered minus the rate above is that provider's true charge, and it varies far more between providers than most people expect. Our guide to sending money across Africa shows how to compare on the amount that actually arrives.
Wondering what actually moves these numbers? Our guide to how exchange rates work covers the mechanics — inflation gaps, commodity prices, pegs and parallel markets.

Official rates and street rates

For most currencies in this table, the published rate and the rate money genuinely changes hands at are the same thing. For a few — most notably the Sudanese pound, and at times others — an official rate coexists with a parallel market trading at a substantially different level. Where that gap exists, no published feed reflects the street price; treat the figure here as the official reference only.

Where these numbers come from

Rates are fetched once a day from a published mid-market feed (rates by Exchange Rate API), validated against sanity bounds on our own server, and only then published — with the capture date shown above, so you are never reading silently stale figures. If the feed ever fails, this page keeps its last good rates and their date rather than inventing numbers. For local rate boards — lending rates, savings rates, treasury bills — see your country's Rateweb site, which tracks those from national sources.