rand ZAR
One dollar buys 16.55 ZAR · one ZAR buys $0.0604.
3,688 tracked days · 1961-02-28 to 2026-08-02 · refreshed daily
Now
16.55
per USD · 2026-08-02
1-year
-8.2%
52w range 15.82–18.04
5-year
+14.8%
from 14.42 in 2021
Weakest ever
19.86
per USD · 2023-06
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Units per US dollar - up means a weaker ZAR. Strongest ever: 0.6667 (1974-06); weakest: 19.86 (2023-06).
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About this chart
Rates are units per US dollar: month-end observations to 1970, near-daily after, and the site's own daily snapshots from August 2026 onward. Each series starts at the currency's modern era - its introduction or latest redenomination - rather than splicing rebased legacy units onto today's scale, so the euro begins in 1999 and the real at the Plano Real, not at numbers no one ever paid. None of this is investment advice; all of it is geography with a time axis.