Currency Converter — Live Exchange Rates

Mid-market rates refresh hourly from open.er-api.com (with Frankfurter / ECB as fallback). The XAU/USD gold spot used by gold-related pairs refreshes every 60 minutes from our price-feed service. Bank and exchange-house rates differ — they include a margin of 0.5%–4% on top of the mid-market rate.

Our converter shows the interbank mid-market rate — the rate banks themselves use to settle trades between each other. When you walk into a branch or use an exchange office, the institution adds a markup (the 'spread') so they earn a margin. For majors like EUR/USD this is usually 0.5–1%; for emerging-market currencies it can be 2–4%; for MENA pegged currencies (SAR, AED, QAR, BHD, OMR) the spread is tiny because the central bank fixes the rate.

Yes — Saudi Arabia (3.7500 SAR/USD since 1986), UAE (3.6725 AED/USD since 1997), Qatar (3.6400 QAR/USD), Bahrain (0.376 BHD/USD), and Oman (0.3845 OMR/USD) all maintain hard pegs to the US dollar via central-bank interventions. Kuwait (KWD) is the GCC outlier: it tracks an undisclosed currency basket dominated by USD.

Yes. We pull the live XAU/USD spot from our price-feed service and multiply by the USD-to-local-currency rate to deliver gold prices in any of the 50+ supported currencies. For full karat breakdowns (24K/22K/21K/18K/14K per gram and per ounce), use our Live Gold Price hub at /gold-price/.

No. The exchange rates and price levels shown are educational data only — they're indicative mid-market quotes, not bid/ask prices a broker would actually fill at. Always verify with your broker, bank, or exchange house before transacting. Forex and CFD trading involves substantial risk of loss.

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