# Conversion rate for US and Canadian dollars

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 29, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversion-rate-for-us-and-canadian-dollars/282154 "2004-12-29T21:31:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversion-rate-for-us-and-canadian-dollars/282154/1 "2004-12-29T21:31:06Z")

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I’ll be in Montreal this weekend and I’m curious as the current conversion rate for US and Canadian dollars. For example, the event I’m going to on New Year’s Eve is $60 Canadian. So what’s that in US roughly? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversion-rate-for-us-and-canadian-dollars/282154/2 "2004-12-29T21:42:39Z")

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When I’m ogling ebay, I normally just take the first hit from google.  
[http://www.xe.com/ucc/](http://www.xe.com/ucc/) says that’s about 50$ US.

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**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversion-rate-for-us-and-canadian-dollars/282154/3 "2004-12-29T23:11:42Z")

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The exchange rate has been fluctuating a fair bit recently. The Canadian dollar was recently as high as 85 cents US, then dropped to the 80 cent range, and is currently something over 82 cents.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conversion-rate-for-us-and-canadian-dollars/282154/4 "2004-12-29T23:33:18Z")

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In round figures, $6 CDN is $5 US – that’s never quite precise, but the 0.83333 ratio is close enough to what the exchange rate fluctuates around to be a good was to round-figure estimate. So your tickets are around $50 US.