Ethiopian Exchange Rate & Currency Tracker

Track the birr against the US Dollar, Euro, Pound Sterling, and UAE Dirham. Convert an amount at the reference rate or at an indicative bank rate, then compare what the National Bank of Ethiopia, CBE, and the commercial banks quote. Nothing about your amounts is uploaded, and the conversion happens in this tab.

Runs in your browser Live reference rates NBE, CBE, and commercial banks

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Bank comparison

Reference, buying, and selling rates per bank for the selected currency
Bank	Reference rate	Bank buys	Bank sells	Spread

Currency converter

Choose the pair and the amount. The result uses the selected bank rate when you keep the bank switch on, and the reference rate when you turn it off.

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All currencies against ETB

Birr per unit, and the selected bank rate for each currency.

Exchange rates for USD, EUR, GBP, and AED against ETB
Currency	1 unit in ETB	1,000 in ETB	Bank buys	Bank sells

Reference rates come from a public exchange rate feed and are not an official NBE rate. Bank buying and selling rates move through the working day.
Cash rates at a counter are usually worse than card and transfer rates. Treat these numbers as planning figures, then confirm at the branch.