Indian rupee against the US dollar
Is the rupee weak by historical standards, or just in the news?
Very high 93.49th percentile of the last five years
The number is rupees per dollar, so a high reading means a weak rupee — it takes more rupees to buy one dollar. At the 98th percentile the rupee is near the weakest it has been against the dollar in five years.
Reading for — 1 days ago.
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Indian rupee against the US dollar since 1973
INR per USD. 13490 observations. Record high 96.82 on 20 May 2026.
Reading the bands
Each band is a percentile rank against this series' own trailing five years, computed using only data available at the time. A reading of 93.49 means the value has been lower than this on 93.49% of days in that window. The bands describe position, not direction — see above for what a high reading means here.
What each band means five bands, by percentile
| Band | Percentile | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Very high | 80–100 | Higher than it has been on four days in five over the past five years. |
| High | 60–80 | Above its own recent range, though not at an extreme. |
| Typical | 40–60 | Around the middle of its own five-year range. |
| Low | 20–40 | Below its own recent range. |
| Very low | 0–20 | Lower than it has been on four days in five over the past five years. |
Year by year
Year by year average, high and low for the last 15 years
| Year | Average | High | Low |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 94.11 | 96.82 | 89.9 |
| 2025 | 87.15 | 91.03 | 84.27 |
| 2024 | 83.66 | 85.55 | 82.72 |
| 2023 | 82.57 | 83.4 | 80.99 |
| 2022 | 78.58 | 82.95 | 73.77 |
| 2021 | 73.94 | 76.38 | 72.37 |
| 2020 | 74.14 | 76.95 | 70.69 |
| 2019 | 70.38 | 72.2 | 68.4 |
| 2018 | 68.37 | 74.33 | 63.38 |
| 2017 | 65.07 | 68.39 | 63.64 |
| 2016 | 67.16 | 68.86 | 66.05 |
| 2015 | 64.11 | 67.1 | 61.32 |
| 2014 | 61 | 63.67 | 58.3 |
| 2013 | 58.51 | 68.8 | 52.99 |
| 2012 | 53.37 | 57.13 | 48.65 |
Full history from January 1973 in the CSV.
Sources · every one re-fetchable
The CSV link is the exact endpoint the pipeline calls, so any reading ever published here can be reproduced.
Sources publisher, series and fetch link
| Series | Publisher | Role | Observed | Fetch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian rupee against the US dollar DEXINUS · INR per USD | Federal Reserve Board via FRED; latest from the ECB | history | CSV | |
| ECB euro reference rates — INR cross via USD ECB-EXR-INR-per_usd · INR per USD | European Central Bank | observations after the history's last date | CSV |
The headline figure comes from the ECB's daily reference rates, which publish about a day behind. Everything before it comes from FRED, which runs roughly four days behind. Both are named above and both can be re-fetched.
Why the direction is confusing
This series is quoted as rupees per dollar. When it rises, the rupee has weakened — the same move that a headline would report as “the rupee fell”. The percentile bands on this page describe the number, not the currency’s health, so a “Very high” reading means a weak rupee.
Two sources, and why
The history comes from the Federal Reserve’s daily series through FRED, which runs about four days behind. The most recent observation comes from the European Central Bank’s daily reference rates, published every working day about a day behind, as a cross through the euro: rupees per euro divided by dollars per euro.
Both legs of that cross come from the same ECB publication on the same day, so it is one source consistently applied rather than two stitched together. Both are named in the sources table with links to the raw data.
What this page will not tell you
Whether the rupee is about to move. The percentile says where today sits against recent history; it carries no forecast, and a currency can sit at an extreme for years. The stress index is the broader read on whether trade conditions are deteriorating.
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