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Convert UAE Dirham to Sri Lankan Rupee live

The real mid-market AED→LKR rate — no bank markup, no hidden spread, updated every 60 seconds.

89,363.50 LKR
1 AED = 89.3635 LKR

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Send UAE Dirham to Sri Lankan Rupee

UAE→Sri Lanka is a significant remittance corridor.

A large Sri Lankan community works in the UAE, and the World Bank ranks the UAE among the leading sources of remittances to Sri Lanka — so AED→LKR is checked closely by families sending money home.

Structurally, the dirham is pegged to the US dollar at 3.6725 by the Central Bank of the UAE, while the Sri Lankan rupee has traded on a managed float since Sri Lanka abandoned its dollar peg during the 2022 economic crisis, with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka intervening only to smooth volatility. So AED→LKR moves with the market rather than a fixed rate.

Sources: World Bank · Central Bank of the UAE · Central Bank of Sri Lanka

As of 4:31 PM GST, 1 AED = 89.3635 LKR. 1 LKR = 0.01119 AED. Mid-market rate — the converter above updates it every 60 seconds.

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AED to LKR

100 AED8,936.35 LKR
500 AED44,681.75 LKR
1,000 AED89,363.50 LKR
5,000 AED446,817.49 LKR
10,000 AED893,634.98 LKR

LKR to AED

100 LKR1.12 AED
500 LKR5.60 AED
1,000 LKR11.19 AED
5,000 LKR55.95 AED
10,000 LKR111.90 AED

What it really costs to send

The rate on this page is the mid-market rate — the midpoint between the interbank buy and sell price, with no markup added. It is the fairest reference point, but it is usually not the rate you are offered: banks, exchange houses and money-transfer apps set their own rate a little below the mid-market rate and may charge a separate fee, so the amount that actually reaches an account in Sri Lanka is normally a little less than a straight mid-market conversion suggests. We don’t publish any single provider’s rate or promise a saving — compare the mid-market rate here against the all-in total your service quotes, fee included, to judge the real cost.

Rate history

The dirham is up 8.7% against the Sri Lankan rupee over the past year.

Today’s rate is 0.1% above its 30-day low, 3.6% above its 52-week average, and has moved about 0.10% a day over the last month.

7 dayslow 89.2716 30 Aug 2026high 89.372 2 Sep 2026average 89.3229
30 dayslow 89.2716 30 Aug 2026high 91.3707 5 Aug 2026average 90.1766
52 weekslow 82.1239 5 Sep 2025high 93.2569 21 May 2026average 86.2328

Snapshot at 4:31 PM GST · mid-market · how we source this →