New Zealand Exchange Rate Against the US Dollar
How many US dollars one New Zealand dollar buys.
US$0.5612 per NZ$1
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Jan 1971 to Oct 2026
Source: FRED series DEXUSNZ (Federal Reserve H.10) · end-of-month rate, the current month shows the latest daily rate; shown as US$ per NZ$1, as published.
New Zealand Exchange Rate Against the US Dollar in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In New Zealand, the exchange rate against the US dollar fell by 2.0% over the year to Oct 2026, from US$0.5728 per NZ$1 in Oct 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from US$0.5596 per NZ$1 in Dec 2024 to US$0.7158 per NZ$1 in Oct 2021.
New Zealand is 22nd of 27 countries in our Currency Change Against the US Dollar by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- FRED
- Series
- DEXUSNZ
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- US$ per NZ$1
- 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 New Zealand dollar.
Data refreshed 2026-10-07. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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