Currency

The rates here are indicative mid-market rates from a public exchange-rate feed, refreshed hourly. That is the rate currencies trade at between banks. The rate you are offered at a bureau de change, a bank counter or through mobile money will be less favourable, because those services add a margin.

Use these converters to see what an amount is worth right now, and to judge whether a quoted rate is reasonable. When you actually exchange money, compare the total you receive rather than the headline rate — commission, rounding and the spread often matter as much as the rate itself.

One feed drives every conversion on the site. Rates come from a single public source quoted against the US dollar, refreshed at most once an hour and cached on the server, so the provider is not hit once per visitor and a brief outage serves the last known rates instead of a broken page. Cross-rates such as shillings to Kenyan shillings are calculated through that dollar base rather than quoted directly, which is why a figure here can differ slightly from one a bank shows you. Everything on these pages is an indicative reference rate, not an offer to deal. The Bank of Tanzania publishes the official reference rates that banks and bureaux price against.