HMRC exchange rates for December 2016
145 currencies, as HMRC published them for 1 to 31 December 2016. Each figure is the number of units you get for one pound.
Divide, do not multiply
Sterling is the foreign amount divided by the rate in this table. Multiplying instead is wrong by the square of the rate, which on a typical dollar figure is more than half as much again.
HMRC do not prescribe which exchange rate you use. CG78310 expects a reasonable and consistent method, and the monthly rate is the method this calculator applies to every trade. What CG78310 does settle is the date: sterling worth is taken at the date of the acquisition or disposal (Bentley v Pike, Capcount Trading v Evans). A broker's own rate and a market feed are neither published nor consistent, so this site never reads one.
Every rate HMRC published for December 2016
| Code | Currency | Units per £1 | Period covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| AED | UAE dirham | 4.5542 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ALL | Lek | 159.79 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| AMD | Armenian dram | 594.3 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| AOA | Kwanza | 205.51 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ARS | Argentine peso | 19.22 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| AUD | Australian dollar | 1.678 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| AWG | Aruban florin | 2.2194 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| AZN | Azerbaijan manat | 2.1525 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BAM | Convertible mark | 2.3025 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BBD | Barbados dollar | 2.4798 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BDT | Taka | 98.36 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BGN | Bulgarian lev | 2.3026 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BHD | Bahraini dinar | 0.4674 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BIF | Burundi franc | 2,073.11 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BMD | Bermudian dollar | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BND | Brunei dollar | 1.7785 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BOB | Boliviano | 8.5925 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BRL | Brazilian real | 4.2371 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BSD | Bahamian dollar | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BTN | Ngultrum | 84.94 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BWP | Pula | 13.4 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BYR | not held | 2.4891 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| BZD | Belize dollar | 2.4922 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CAD | Canadian dollar | 1.6737 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CDF | Congolese franc | 1,425.87 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CHF | Swiss franc | 1.2618 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CLP | Chilean peso | 844.36 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CNY | Yuan renminbi | 8.5463 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| COP | Colombian peso | 3,965.18 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CRC | Costa Rican colon | 683.8 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CUP | Cuban peso | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CVE | Cabo Verde escudo | 130.25 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| CZK | Czech koruna | 31.81 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| DJF | Djibouti franc | 220.35 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| DKK | Danish krone | 8.7579 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| DOP | Dominican peso | 57.55 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| DZD | Algerian dinar | 137.73 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ECS | Dollar | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| EGP | Egyptian pound | 21.7 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ERN | Nakfa | 18.59 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ETB | Ethiopian birr | 27.85 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| EUR | Euro | 1.1773 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| FJD | Fiji dollar | 2.6051 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| GEL | Lari | 3.0687 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| GHS | Ghana cedi | 5.0464 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| GMD | Dalasi | 53.19 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| GNF | Guinean franc | 11,413.24 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| GTQ | Quetzal | 9.3098 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| GYD | Guyana dollar | 257.9 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| HKD | Hong Kong dollar | 9.6173 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| HNL | Lempira | 28.78 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| HRK | Kuna | 8.8631 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| HTG | Gourde | 82.94 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| HUF | Forint | 364.75 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| IDR | Rupiah | 16,716.9 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ILS | New Israeli sheqel | 4.8077 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| INR | Indian rupee | 84.94 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| IQD | Iraqi dinar | 1,466.79 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ISK | Iceland krona | 141.26 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| JMD | Jamaican dollar | 160.19 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| JOD | Jordanian dinar | 0.8793 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| JPY | Yen | 140.02 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KES | Kenyan shilling | 126.34 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KGS | Som | 85.7 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KHR | Riel | 4,984.37 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KMF | Comorian franc | 579.17 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KRW | Won | 1,458.3 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KWD | Kuwaiti dinar | 0.3784 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KYD | Cayman Islands dollar | 1.0167 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| KZT | Tenge | 416.16 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| LAK | Lao kip | 10,173.33 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| LBP | Lebanese pound | 1,870 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| LKR | Sri Lanka rupee | 183.87 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| LRD | Liberian dollar | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| LSL | Loti | 17.67 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| LYD | Libyan dinar | 1.7669 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MAD | Moroccan dirham | 12.54 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MDL | Moldovan leu | 25.04 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MGA | Malagasy ariary | 4,081.11 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MKD | Denar | 72.49 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MMK | Kyat | 1,629.34 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MNT | Tugrik | 3,035.88 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MOP | Pataca | 9.9058 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MRO | Ouguiya | 444.6 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MUR | Mauritius rupee | 44.45 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MVR | Rufiyaa | 19.09 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MWK | Malawi kwacha | 894.37 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MXN | Mexican peso | 25.71 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MYR | Malaysian ringgit | 5.5082 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| MZN | Mozambique metical | 91.79 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| NGN | Naira | 390.87 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| NIO | Cordoba oro | 36.17 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| NOK | Norwegian krone | 10.69 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| NPR | Nepalese rupee | 135.9 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| NZD | New Zealand dollar | 1.7713 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| OMR | Rial Omani | 0.4774 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PAB | Balboa | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PEN | Sol | 4.2497 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PGK | Kina | 3.9322 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PHP | Philippine peso | 61.82 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PKR | Pakistan rupee | 129.97 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PLN | Zloty | 5.2111 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| PYG | Guarani | 7,205.83 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| QAR | Qatari rial | 4.5145 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| RON | Romanian leu | 5.3119 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| RSD | Serbian dinar | 145.21 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| RUB | Russian rouble | 80.19 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| RWF | Rwanda franc | 1,006.06 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SAR | Saudi riyal | 4.6505 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SBD | Solomon Islands dollar | 9.6678 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SCR | Seychelles rupee | 16.73 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SDG | Sudanese pound | 8.0537 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SEK | Swedish krona | 11.52 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SGD | Singapore dollar | 1.7785 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SLL | Leone | 6,943.41 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SOS | Somali shilling | 676.98 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SRD | Surinam dollar | 9.0252 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| STD | Dobra | 29,013.53 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SVC | El Salvador colon | 10.85 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| SZL | Lilangeni | 17.67 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| THB | Baht | 44.1 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TMT | Turkmenistan new manat | 4.352 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TND | Tunisian dinar | 2.8555 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TOP | Pa'anga | 1.678 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TRY | Turkish lira | 4.2331 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TTD | Trinidad and Tobago dollar | 8.3841 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TWD | New Taiwan dollar | 39.51 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| TZS | Tanzanian shilling | 2,702.97 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| UAH | Hryvnia | 31.75 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| UGX | Uganda shilling | 4,488.42 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| USD | US dollar | 1.2399 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| UYU | Peso uruguayo | 36.01 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| UZS | Uzbekistan sum | 3,914.96 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| VEF | Bolívar | 12.39 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| VND | Dong | 28,071.27 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| VUV | Vatu | 138.82 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| WST | Tala | 3.1525 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| XAF | CFA franc BEAC | 772.23 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| XCD | East Caribbean dollar | 3.3477 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| XOF | CFA franc BCEAO | 772.23 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| XPF | CFP franc | 140.48 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| YER | Yemeni rial | 310.09 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ZAR | Rand | 17.67 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ZMW | Zambian kwacha | 12.16 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
| ZWL | Zimbabwe dollar | 448.71 | 1 to 31 December 2016 |
Rates are shown exactly as published and are not rounded, because the calculator divides by the same figure. A currency with no name against it is one this server holds only by code.
Where this month came from
Months before January 2021 come from HMRC's own XML archive, which is what the gov.uk collection links to for monthly rates up to December 2020. This is the file for December 2016:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/rates/exrates-monthly-1216.XML
The same file is also served with a lower case extension, at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/softwaredevelopers/rates/exrates-monthly-1216.xml, and HMRC's own index is inconsistent about which. The host is case sensitive, so both spellings are tried. The file carries a Period attribute and a rate is kept only when that attribute names the month asked for, because a wrong month URL still answers 200 with a complete and valid looking file.
The collection that lists both is Exchange rates for customs and VAT on gov.uk. Nothing here is taken from a mirror. A rate comes from HMRC or it does not come at all.
Using this month on a return
- A trade made in December 2016 converts at the rate on this page. A trade made in another month uses that month's page, on the buy and on the sale alike.
- If the rate for a currency is not on this page, HMRC did not publish one for it that month, or this server has not loaded it. The calculator names the currency and the month and refuses rather than borrowing another currency's rate.
- A pence quoted London price is not a foreign currency. Pence are converted by dividing by 100, and that happens before any of this.
Upload a broker export and every foreign trade in it is converted at the HMRC rate for its own month, with the month named in the report. The guide explains the matching rules that decide which cost a disposal takes.