Birr to dollar exchange rate today

On 29 August 2026, one Ethiopian birr is worth about 0.0061 USD at the best rate published by any of the 30 banks tracked here. The birr is a low-denomination currency against the United States Dollar, so a single birr is a fraction of a unit - the figure is more useful multiplied up to the amount you are actually changing.

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, at 163.44 ETB per USD on 29 August 2026. This is the opposite question to the one most rate tables answer: buying dollar you want the bank charging the least, where somebody selling dollar wants the bank paying the most. The two are rarely the same bank, and the table on this page is ranked for buying.

Across the 22 banks quoting USD on 29 August 2026, the price of one dollar runs from 163.44 to 168.17 ETB. On 1,000 USD that is a difference of about 4,737.30 birr for the same transaction, which is why it is worth checking rather than walking into the nearest branch.

Most sites quote a mid-market rate, which is the midpoint between what banks buy and sell at and is a price nobody is actually offered. A bank buys dollar from you at its buying rate and sells it to you at its selling rate; the gap between the two is the spread, and it is how the bank makes money on the transaction. Every figure on this page is a published bank rate rather than a midpoint, so it is the number a branch will apply.

Banks publish a selling rate for USD, which is what they charge when they sell it to you, and the boards on this page are those rates. Availability is a separate question from price: foreign currency purchases are subject to National Bank of Ethiopia rules, larger amounts require identification and supporting documents such as a visa or travel booking, and a smaller branch may not hold enough physical notes to fill a large cash request. Check with the branch before travelling to it.

Official rates only, taken from the boards Ethiopian commercial banks publish themselves. ET-Forex does not collect, quote or estimate parallel (black market) rates. The figures here are what a bank branch will apply, subject to that branch's own limits and documentation requirements.