Chinese Yuan exchange rate today
The yuan is not freely floating. Each morning the People's Bank of China publishes a midpoint and the currency may trade only within a band around it, so daily moves are smaller and smoother than those of any major floating currency. There are also two yuan — onshore (CNY) and offshore (CNH) — which do not always trade at the same price.
CNY against other currencies
How much of each currency one CNY buys, and how that has changed over the past year.
| Currency | Per 1 CNY | Inverse | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUREuro | 0.1283 | 7.7936 | +7.29% |
| USDUS Dollar | 0.1490 | 6.7105 | +6.25% |
| GBPPound Sterling | 0.1100 | 9.0898 | +6.12% |
| CHFSwiss Franc | 0.1209 | 8.2691 | +8.41% |
| JPYJapanese Yen | 22.9932 | 0.043491 | +10.89% |
| AUDAustralian Dollar | 0.2066 | 4.8413 | −2.96% |
| CADCanadian Dollar | 0.2057 | 4.8610 | +6.25% |
| SEKSwedish Krona | 1.4309 | 0.6989 | +8.77% |
| PLNPolish Zloty | 0.5540 | 1.8050 | +9.02% |
CNY against EUR — one year
- 52-week high
- 0.1299 EUR
- 28/07/2026
- 52-week low
- 0.1189 EUR
- 17/09/2025
- Change over a year
- +7.29%
- against EUR
Frequently asked questions
Not purely by the market. Each morning the People’s Bank of China publishes a central parity rate against the US dollar, taking a basket of trading-partner currencies into account, and onshore trading may move only within a band of 2 percent either side of it. That band was widened to its present width in 2014. The euro rate shown here follows from that dollar fixing.
CNY is the yuan traded inside mainland China, inside the daily band. CNH is the same currency traded offshore, mostly in Hong Kong, where there is no band and the rate is set freely. The two usually sit within a fraction of a percent of each other, and a wider gap is read as a sign of pressure. The ECB reference rate is the onshore one.
The rate at the top of the page is the ECB fix for the latest working day, published once at around 16:00 CET. It is a single daily value rather than a live quote, so it will not match an intraday rate you see on a trading platform. The twelve-month chart and the year-on-year change on this page are built from the same daily series.
It has been part of the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Right basket since October 2016, alongside the dollar, euro, yen and pound. That is official recognition rather than free convertibility. Capital controls still limit how money moves in and out of the mainland, which is the main reason the yuan’s share of global reserves stays small next to the size of the Chinese economy.