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Convert Sri Lankan Rupee to UAE Dirham live

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

11.19 AED
1 LKR = 0.01119 AED

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Send Sri Lankan Rupee to UAE Dirham

The rupee-to-dirham rate is the return leg of the UAE–Sri Lanka corridor — checked by Sri Lankans in the UAE, visitors and anyone converting rupees to dirhams.

The UAE–Sri Lanka corridor is a significant one. Most flows run from the Emirates to Sri Lanka, but the rupee-to-dirham rate matters to Sri Lankans moving to the UAE, to travellers, and to businesses pricing goods in dirhams.

Structurally this is a dollar story. The Sri Lankan rupee has traded on a managed float since 2022 under the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, while the dirham is pegged to the US dollar at 3.6725 by the Central Bank of the UAE. So LKR→AED moves with the rupee’s value against the US dollar.

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

As of 4:30 PM GST, 1 LKR = 0.01119 AED. 1 AED = 89.3684 LKR. Mid-market rate — the converter above updates it every 60 seconds.

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LKR to AED

100 LKR1.12 AED
500 LKR5.59 AED
1,000 LKR11.19 AED
5,000 LKR55.95 AED
10,000 LKR111.90 AED

AED to LKR

100 AED8,936.84 LKR
500 AED44,684.18 LKR
1,000 AED89,368.36 LKR
5,000 AED446,841.82 LKR
10,000 AED893,683.64 LKR

What it really costs to send

The rate shown here is the mid-market rate — the midpoint of the interbank buy and sell price, with no markup. When you actually convert rupees to dirhams, a bank, exchange house or app applies its own rate a little below this and may add a fee, so the dirham amount received is usually a little less than a plain mid-market conversion. We don’t quote any provider’s rate or claim a saving — check the mid-market rate here against the all-in total your service offers to see the true cost.

Rate history

The Sri Lankan rupee is down 8.0% against the dirham over the past year.

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

7 dayslow 0.011189 2 Sep 2026high 0.011202 30 Aug 2026average 0.011195
30 dayslow 0.010944 5 Aug 2026high 0.011202 30 Aug 2026average 0.01109
52 weekslow 0.010723 21 May 2026high 0.012177 5 Sep 2025average 0.011613

Snapshot at 4:30 PM GST · mid-market · how we source this →