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Convert UAE Dirham to US Dollar live

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

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272.25 USD

1 AED = 0.27225 USD

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Send UAE Dirham to US Dollar

AED→USD is the dirham’s anchor rate — fixed by design, so it barely moves.

The dirham is pegged to the US dollar at 3.6725 by the Central Bank of the UAE, a rate in force since 1997. So AED→USD sits at almost exactly 0.2723 — the inverse of the peg — day after day, and the flat line you see is the peg working, not missing data.

Because the rate is effectively fixed, it is one of the calmest rates you can check. The peg also means the dirham travels with the dollar: when the dollar strengthens or weakens against other currencies, the dirham moves with it, so the dirham’s rate against the euro, the rupee or the pound is really a US-dollar story.

Sources: Central Bank of the UAE · Federal Reserve

As of 4:29 PM GST, 1 AED = 0.27225 USD. 1 USD = 3.6731 AED. Mid-market rate — the converter above updates it every 60 seconds.

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AED to USD

100 AED	27.22 USD
500 AED	136.12 USD
1,000 AED	272.25 USD
5,000 AED	1,361.25 USD
10,000 AED	2,722.50 USD

USD to AED

100 USD	367.31 AED
500 USD	1,836.55 AED
1,000 USD	3,673.10 AED
5,000 USD	18,365.50 AED
10,000 USD	36,731.00 AED

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Because the dirham is fixed to the US dollar, this rate barely moves — so the gap between the mid-market rate and what you actually get is not rate movement at all: it is the margin a bank, card or exchange house adds on top of the mid-market rate, plus any fee. 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 see that margin for what it is.

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Rate history

The dirham has held steady against the US dollar over the past year.

7 dayslow 0.272246 31 Aug 2026high 0.272268 2 Sep 2026average 0.272257

30 dayslow 0.272231 7 Aug 2026high 0.272268 17 Aug 2026average 0.272255

52 weekslow 0.272224 23 Mar 2026high 0.272313 1 Jun 2026average 0.272263

The dirham is pegged to the US dollar at 3.6725.

Snapshot at 4:29 PM GST · mid-market · how we source this →