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Japanese yen to rand today

Japanese yen · South African rand · reference rate

Reference rate

1JPY0.1040ZAR

+0.00037ZAR+0.36%against the rate of 05.11
The other way1ZAR9.6176JPY
Source
Frankfurter (central-bank reference rates, ECB-based) 1
Kind
reference rate, not the fixing of the central bank
Published
daily, working days of the central banks

A bank or a bureau will quote two other rates. It buys below this figure and sells above it; the gap is its margin, and a fee may come on top.

Japanese yen and rand converter

Amount × the reference rate of the central banks. The answer is already worked out for an example; change the amount or the currency to recalculate.

100 JPY in rand

10.40ZAR

The other way:100 ZAR961.76JPY

At the reference rate, . How the rate is set

At a bank or a bureau you will get a different amount: it changes at its own buying and selling rates, not at this one, and may charge a fee.

Before you change money

Ask for the rate and the fee in writing and compare what you would get with this answer. The difference is what the exchange costs you.

Round amounts

At the reference rate of the central banks. Each amount has its own page where there is one.

JPY → ZAR · Rate
AmountIn ZAR
1 JPY0.10
10 JPY1.04
100 JPY10.40
1,000 JPY103.98
ZAR → JPY · Rate
AmountIn JPY
10 ZAR96.18
50 ZAR480.88
100 ZAR961.76
500 ZAR4,808.78
1,000 ZAR9,617.56
5,000 ZAR48,087.80
10,000 ZAR96,175.60
50,000 ZAR480,877.98

The rand against other currencies

Each row carries the date of its own rate. Rows marked “via USD” are worked out through the dollar from two sources named below.

CurrencyOne unit, in ZAROne ZAR, in the unitDayRate of
USDUS dollar16.44700.06080+0.0479+0.29% 1
EUREuro18.45260.05419+0.0041+0.02% 1
GBPBritish pound22.10770.04523+0.0130+0.06% 1
AUDAustralian dollar11.42150.08755−0.0657−0.57% 1
CADCanadian dollar11.75210.08509+0.0048+0.04% 1
CNYChinese yuan2.46810.4052+0.0077+0.31% 1
JPYJapanese yen0.10409.6176+0.00037+0.36% 1
NGNNigerian naira0.0122281.8587+0.000033+0.27% 1

The Japanese yen rate in South African rand tells you how much the rand is worth against the yen on the day the official rate is published. Importers of vehicles, electronics and machinery from Japan check it to see what a shipment priced in yen will cost them in rand before they commit to an order.

Where the rate comes from

The yen figure is taken from the reference source (Frankfurter), not from the central bank, and it carries the date of its own rate: . Rates are published once on working days, so the figure you see is the official rate of the day, not a moving quote.

Using the converter and tables

The round-amount tables below show what common yen amounts come to in rand, which is handy for quick estimates on quotes and invoices.

Sources

Every figure on this page points here by its number.

  1. 1ReferenceFrankfurter, reference rates of central banks (ECB-based)frankfurter.devthe rates of this site, through the dollar
  2. 2WidgetTradingViewtradingview.comthe live widget only; never a printed figure