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Chinese yuan · South African rand · reference rate

Reference rate

1CNY2.4681ZAR

+0.0077ZAR+0.31%against the rate of 05.11
The other way1ZAR0.4052CNY
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.

Chinese yuan 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 CNY in rand

246.81ZAR

The other way:100 ZAR40.52CNY

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.

CNY → ZAR · Rate
AmountIn ZAR
1 CNY2.47
10 CNY24.68
100 CNY246.81
1,000 CNY2,468.15
ZAR → CNY · Rate
AmountIn CNY
10 ZAR4.05
50 ZAR20.26
100 ZAR40.52
500 ZAR202.58
1,000 ZAR405.16
5,000 ZAR2,025.81
10,000 ZAR4,051.62
50,000 ZAR20,258.10

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

This page shows what the Chinese yuan (CNY) is worth in South African rand. The rate tells you how many rand the yuan buys at the official reference level, so you can put a price on goods, invoices or study costs quoted in CNY.

Who uses this page

Importers who buy stock from China look up the CNY rate to work out what a shipment will cost in rand before they commit. Students heading to China, and families sending them money, use it to see what their budget comes to in the local currency.

Where the rate comes from

The CNY figure is taken from the reference source (Frankfurter), not from the central bank. It carries the date of its own rate, shown as , and is published once on working days.

Using the converter

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