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Egyptian pound to US dollar (EGP/USD)

The rate both ways, how far the Egyptian pound has moved against the dollar this year, and what that does to a return earned on the EGX. Everything on this page comes from the same snapshot as every other figure on this site — a converter that pulled its own live rate would contradict the stock pages it sits beside.

The rate, both ways

reference rate, 28 Aug 2026, 00:02 UTC
One dollar
50.2473 EGP
One Egyptian pound
0.019902 USD

Mid-market reference rate — the midpoint between buying and selling. No bank, broker or bureau will quote you exactly this figure; the note under the converter below says how wide that gap can run.

This year, against the dollar

since January

The Egyptian pound has weakened 5.3% against the dollar this year — it takes 5.3% more of it to buy a dollar than it did in January.

Why this rate matters on the EGX

The Egyptian Exchange quotes the 43 listings we track in Egyptian pound, and every dollar figure on its pages here is converted at this reference rate. A return earned in Egyptian pound and the same return measured in dollars differ by exactly the currency’s move — and on markets like this one that difference is routinely as large as the return itself.

See the Egyptian Exchange page for its listings and index, or Africa vs World for every index here adjusted to dollars the same way.

Convert

reference rates, 28 Aug 2026, 00:02 UTC
To
19.90

1 EGP = 0.019902 USD

These are mid-market reference rates — the midpoint between buying and selling. No bank, broker or bureau trades at the midpoint, and on thinly traded African currencies the spread you are offered can be several percent wide. Treat this as the yardstick, not as a quote. Where a country operates exchange controls, the official rate may also differ from the rate at which currency can actually be obtained or repatriated.

What a return is actually worth

local currency → dollars
%

A +40.0% return in EGP was worth +33.0% to a dollar investor this year.

The EGP weakened 5.3% against the dollar since January, which takes 7.0 points off the headline figure.

Computed as (1 + 0.400) ÷ (1 + 0.053) − 1. Subtracting the currency move instead is the common shortcut and it overstates the result — here it would give +34.7%.

Every currency we price in

6 markets · 3 reference
Each currency this site prices a market in, plus the major currencies a reader is likely to convert into, with the rate per US dollar and how far each has moved against the dollar since January.
CurrencyMarketPer $1vs $ this year
BWPBSEBotswana13.585+0.3%weaker
EGPEGXEgypt50.247+5.3%weaker
NGNNGXNigeria1,340.0-8.3%stronger
UGXUSEUganda3,703.8+5.0%weaker
XOFBRVMUEMOA (8 countries)563.0+2.1%weaker
ZARJSESouth Africa15.989-2.5%stronger
CNYReference only6.737-3.9%stronger
EURReference only0.858+1.4%weaker
GBPReference only0.736-0.5%stronger

“Weaker” means it now takes more of that currency to buy a dollar than it did in January — so a return earned in it is worth less to someone holding dollars. This is the single largest reason a headline return on an African market and the return an overseas investor actually received are different numbers.

Every pair we publish

11 pages

Against the dollar
naira to dollar (NGN/USD) · rand to dollar (ZAR/USD) · CFA franc to dollar (XOF/USD) · pula to dollar (BWP/USD) · shilling to dollar (UGX/USD)

Crosses
naira to pound (NGN/GBP) · rand to pound (ZAR/GBP) · rand to euro (ZAR/EUR) · Egyptian pound to euro (EGP/EUR) · CFA franc to euro (XOF/EUR)

Or start from the currency converter, which holds every rate in one table.