USD to VND
Convert US dollars to Vietnamese dong at the mid-market rate.
The rate is fetched by this site, not by your browser, so the rate provider never sees you. Your amount stays on your device.
The dollar-to-dong rate is one of the most searched conversions in Vietnam, and it is also one where the number you find online and the number you get at a counter routinely differ.
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What this page shows is the mid-market rate: the midpoint between what buyers and sellers are quoting on the interbank market. It is the rate you see on a news site or in a search result, and no member of the public transacts at it. It is the reference everything else is priced against, which makes it the right number for working out roughly what something costs, and the wrong number for predicting what will land in your account.
Three other rates exist alongside it. A commercial bank quotes a buy rate and a sell rate with a spread between them, and the spread is where the bank earns. Gold shops and licensed exchange counters quote their own. And a transfer service adds a fee on top of whatever rate it applies, sometimes visibly and sometimes inside the rate itself. On a transfer of any size those differences are worth more than the exchange-rate movement over a week.
The figure here updates at most once an hour from a public feed, and the timestamp beside it says when. For a rough conversion that is plenty. For anything you are about to sign, ask the counterparty for their rate in writing.
- Mid-market rate, stated as such rather than presented as what you will get
- Updated at most hourly, with the time of the last update shown
- Conversion recalculated locally as you type, without refetching the rate
- The amount you type is never sent anywhere, including to the rate provider
- Swap to convert dong back to dollars
How to use it
- 1Type the amount in US dollars.
- 2Read the dong figure as it updates.
- 3Check the timestamp to see how recent the rate is.
- 4Use swap to go the other way.
Questions
Why is the bank rate different from this one?
This is the mid-market rate, the midpoint of the interbank market. A bank quotes buy and sell rates either side of it, and the spread is what it earns.
Will I get this rate when I transfer money?
No. A transfer service applies its own rate and usually a fee, sometimes built into the rate rather than shown separately.
How often does the rate update?
At most once an hour, from a public daily feed. The timestamp beside the result shows the last update.
Is my amount sent anywhere?
No. Only the rate comes down; the multiplication happens in your browser, so no amount or currency pair leaves your device.
Where do I find the rate I will actually get?
From the counterparty: your bank, the exchange counter, or the transfer service, each of which publishes its own buy and sell rates.