Malaysia Exchange Rate Against the US Dollar
How many US dollars one ringgit buys.
$0.2450 per RM1
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Jan 1981 to Oct 2026
Source: FRED series DEXMAUS (Federal Reserve H.10) · end-of-month rate, the current month shows the latest daily rate; shown as US$ per RM1, 1 ÷ the published MYR per US$.
Malaysia Exchange Rate Against the US Dollar in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the exchange rate against the US dollar rose by 2.6% over the year to Oct 2026, from $0.2389 per RM1 in Oct 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from $0.2096 per RM1 in Apr 2024 to $0.2571 per RM1 in Feb 2026.
Malaysia is 4th of 26 countries in our Currency Change Against the US Dollar by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- FRED
- Series
- DEXMAUS
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- $ per RM1
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, exchange rates are market prices and are not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Oct 2026
- Revision status
- Market price, not revised
A rising number means a stronger ringgit.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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