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Montevideo Insider
Monday, Aug. 24, 2026 · updated 8:10 a.m.
The dollar today
You sell dollars at
40,00
You buy dollars at
40,60
Spread
0,60 · 1.5%
What this means today
These are Friday’s closing quotes carried forward — it is Sunday and the casas de cambio are shut. The Banco Central’s official close could not be reached this morning, so the figures above are an aggregate of 41 exchange houses rather than the official rate. Nothing here is a rate you can transact at until tomorrow.
If you hold Australian or Canadian dollars
Mid-market rate, XE
Australian dollar
28.68
pesos to the Australian dollar
Mid-market rate from XE, read at 8:14 a.m.. This is what the currency is worth, not what anyone will pay you for it.
Local counter25.09 / 30.75
Houses quoting itOne, La Favorita
You lose, sellingAbout 13%
Canadian dollar
29.02
pesos to the Canadian dollar
Mid-market rate from XE, read at 8:14 a.m.. This is what the currency is worth, not what anyone will pay you for it.
Local counter23.54 / 31.78
Houses quoting itOne, La Favorita
You lose, sellingAbout 19%
Why we lead with the mid-market rate for these two
The Banco Central publishes an official peso rate for four currencies only: the dollar, the euro, the Argentine peso and the real. There is no official Australian or Canadian rate, so the honest number is the mid-market rate — the midpoint of what the currency trades at internationally, before anyone takes a margin.
You cannot transact at it. One exchange house in the country quotes the Canadian dollar and one quotes the Australian, and their spreads run to 20 and 30 percent. Converting through U.S. dollars, or paying by card and letting the network settle near the mid-market rate, is almost always cheaper than selling either currency over a Montevideo counter.
Pound sterling
A local quote exists, but thinly
54.59
mid-market
Counter
51.92 / 58.76
Houses quoting
5
Counter spread
12.4%
Also quoted here
Euro
46.73
mid-market · 38 houses
Argentine peso, per 100
2.67
cross via the dollar
Brazilian real
7.74
cross via the dollar
30 days, buy and sell
The shaded band is the spread between what exchange houses buy at and what they sell at. Hover any day for the pair.
Where the number comes from
Source
Buy
Sell
Note
Casas de cambio, 41 houses
40,00
40,60
Friday’s close, carried forward.
XE mid-market
Mid-market
Used only for GBP, CAD and AUD, which have no official peso rate.
BROU
—
—
Closed. Publishes its own rate on working days.
Banco Central, official close
Unreachable
Unreachable
The BCU document path failed this morning. We say so rather than substituting.
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 41 exchange houses. Inflation and wage figures from INE. Nothing on this page is financial advice.
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If you rent
4.25%
rent adjustment
coefficient
coefficient
For contracts adjusting in July 2026. Decree 187/026.
August coefficientNot yet published
Inflation, 12 months4.27%
Average rent paid$21,400
The coefficient is the lower of two indexes — wages or prices — so it tracks inflation when wages run ahead. Whether it binds your contract depends on the contract and on whether the building predates June 1968.
This month
30 days ago40,15 sell
Today40,60 sell
Change+1.1%
Range39,80 – 40,75
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. When the Banco Central rate cannot be reached we publish the aggregate and label it, rather than presenting one as the other. Cross rates for the pound, Canadian and Australian dollars are computed from the dollar rate and labeled as cross rates, because no official peso rate for them exists.