Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026 · updated 1:40 p.m.
The dollar today
Bringing money into Uruguay? This is the rate that matters: what an exchange house gives you in pesos for each dollar you change in.
Change dollars to pesos
40,05
pesos for each US$1 you bring in
Change pesos back to dollars
40,45
to buy one dollar back
Spread
0,40 · 1.0%
What this means today
The casas de cambio are shut today, so these are Monday’s closing quotes carried forward — an aggregate of 44 exchange houses, not a live rate. Nothing here is a rate you can transact at until they reopen.
At Banco República (BROU) · the state bank counter
Cash dollars
BROU buys at
39,15
pesos per US$1 you sell
BROU sells at
41,35
pesos to buy one back
eBROU buys
39,65
app rate, tighter spread
eBROU sells
40,85
app rate, tighter spread
Banco República is the state bank and where many newcomers open their first account. Its counter rate for cash dollars runs a little wider than the exchange houses above; the preferential eBROU rate, done in the app, narrows the spread. Read directly from BROU each business day.
Other currencies · Banco Central official close
Pesos to one unit
Euro
46,86
pesos to the euro
Pound
54,76
pesos to the pound
Canadian $
29,01
pesos to the C$
Australian $
28,72
pesos to the A$
The Banco Central del Uruguay publishes an official peso rate for around thirty currencies, updated every business day — these are its official close, read directly from the BCU. It is a reference rate, not a counter price: a place to actually sell an Australian or Canadian dollar exists at only a handful of exchange houses and at wide spreads, so for anything beyond the US dollar it is usually cheaper to convert through dollars or pay by card and let the network settle.
Also quoted here
Argentine peso, per 100
2,66
official close
Brazilian real
7,80
official close
30 days, buy and sell
The shaded band is the spread between what exchange houses buy at and what they sell at.
Where the number comes from
Source
Buy
Sell
Note
Casas de cambio, 44 houses
40,05
40,45
Friday’s close, carried forward.
Mid-market
A mid-market cross, kept only as a fallback if the Banco Central close can't be reached.
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Not yet one of our automated sources; we publish the exchange-house aggregate instead.
Practical notes, not advice
Rates differ meaningfully between exchange houses a few hundred meters apart, and the spread is where the cost sits — the sell figure is the one that matters if you are bringing dollars in. Airport and hotel desks are reliably the worst rates in the country, and card transactions convert at a rate you do not control.
We publish the aggregate and the spread so you can see whether a quoted rate is normal for the day. What we will not do is tell you when to change money. That is a decision about your own circumstances, and we are a news site, not a financial adviser.
Aggregate from cambio-uruguay.com across 44 exchange houses. Inflation and wage figures from INE. Nothing on this page is financial advice.
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4.25%
rent adjustment
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coefficient
August coefficientNot yet published
Inflation, 12 months4.27%
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This month
Today40,45 sell
We read the dollar twice a day, but a logged 30-day history isn’t stored yet — the chart above shows the typical shape, not recorded data. Real logging is on the way.
Prices and wages
Inflation, 12 months to July4.27%
Median wage index, to June5.16%
INE headline indicators, unchanged this week.
Reading the two numbers
Uruguayan exchange houses quote compra and venta from their own side of the counter. Compra is what they pay you for a dollar. Venta is what they charge you for one. If you are arriving with dollars, the compra figure is your rate.
Updated every weekday morning and evening. The dollar figures are an aggregate of the exchange houses; the euro, pound, Canadian and Australian dollars and the real are the Banco Central del Uruguay official close, read directly from the BCU each business day. When a Banco Central rate can't be reached we fall back to a labeled mid-market cross rather than presenting one as the other.