Currency pair (“aussie”) · cross of two ECB reference rates

What is the AUD/USD reference rate and how has it moved?

The AUD/USD reference rate was 0.69588 on 16 Oct 2026: one AUD was worth 0.69588 USD. That is 7.1% above a year earlier and 63% of the way up its 52-week range. Annualised volatility over the year was 7.8%.

AUD/USD · 16 Oct 2026: 0.69588Previous fixing 0.69108 (15 Oct 2026) · ▲ +0.69%
12-month change: ▲ +7.1%from 0.64984 on 16 Oct 2025
52-week range: 0.64455–0.72569low 21 Nov 2025 · high 7 May 2026
Volatility, 1 yr: 7.8%annualised; full-year average since 2016: 10.0%

The past twelve months

Daily ECB reference fixings, 16 Oct 2025 – 16 Oct 2026 (255 fixings). Yellow dot: latest.

What the record shows

Over the past year AUD/USD has been calmer than usual: 7.8% annualised volatility against a 10.0% average for full calendar years since 2016. Its calmest full year was 2019 (6.8%) and its busiest 2022 (14.1%).
Since 4 Jan 2016 the rate has ranged from 0.57961 (19 Mar 2020) to 0.81116 (31 Jan 2018). Today's fixing is higher than 43% of the 2,763 daily fixings in that period.
Five years ago, on 15 Oct 2021, the fixing was 0.74182, so the rate is 6.2% below that level. Over one month it is ▼ −2.43% (from 0.71322 on 16 Sept 2026).
The largest single-day move of the past year was on 8 Apr 2026: 0.69349 → 0.70565 (▲ +1.75%).
Read the other way round, 1 USD was worth 1.43704 AUD on 16 Oct 2026 (USD/AUD).

How is the AUD/USD figure on this page produced?

The ECB does not publish AUD/USD; it publishes each currency against the euro. The cross is the ratio of the two: USD per euro ÷ AUD per euro = 1.12530 ÷ 1.61710 = 0.69588 on 16 Oct 2026. Because both legs are fixed at the same moment, the cross is internally consistent, but it can differ slightly from a market quote at 14:10 CET. See how to calculate a cross rate.

Year by year

AUD/USD yearly close, change, high, low, average and volatility
Year	Close	Change	High	Low	Average	Vol.
2026 to date	0.69588	▲ +4.1%	0.72569 7 May	0.66682 5 Jan	0.70331	7.3%
2025	0.66834	▲ +7.9%	0.67021 24 Dec	0.60057 9 Apr	0.64483	9.9%
2024	0.61943	▼ −8.8%	0.69256 30 Sept	0.61943 31 Dec	0.66018	7.9%
2023	0.67946	▼ −0.0%	0.71318 2 Feb	0.63021 3 Oct	0.66426	12.0%
2022	0.67967	▼ −6.3%	0.76311 5 Apr	0.62188 21 Oct	0.69454	14.1%
2021	0.72533	▼ −6.0%	0.79813 25 Feb	0.70394 6 Dec	0.75117	8.9%
2020	0.77196	▲ +9.9%	0.77196 31 Dec	0.57961 19 Mar	0.69123	12.5%
2019	0.70234	▼ −0.5%	0.72769 31 Jan	0.66815 2 Oct	0.69509	6.8%
2018	0.70592	▼ −9.7%	0.81116 31 Jan	0.70282 26 Oct	0.74786	8.3%
2017	0.78151	▲ +8.2%	0.81043 8 Sept	0.71806 2 Jan	0.76673	7.9%
2016	0.72218	—	0.78332 21 Apr	0.68529 20 Jan	0.74421	11.3%

Change = last fixing of the year against the last fixing of the previous year (2016 has no prior close in this record). Vol. = annualised standard deviation of daily log changes within the year. 2026 runs to 16 Oct 2026.

Since January 2016

ECB reference fixings, thinned to about every fifth fixing for drawing; the tables use every fixing.

Largest one-day moves since 2016

Date	From	To	Move
11 Nov 2022	0.64116	0.66680	▲ +4.00%
4 Apr 2025	0.63600	0.61095	▼ −3.94%
10 Apr 2025	0.60057	0.61893	▲ +3.06%
9 Jan 2023	0.67351	0.69248	▲ +2.82%
17 Mar 2016	0.74200	0.76281	▲ +2.80%

Moves are measured between consecutive ECB fixings, so a move after a holiday can span more than one calendar day.

Sources

European Central Bank — euro foreign exchange reference rates (series EXR.D.AUD+USD.EUR.SP00.A, retrieved 16 Oct 2026 via the ECB Data Portal).
Method for crosses, ranges and volatility: methodology.