Convert USD to CZK US dollar ↔ Czech koruna Free Online Secure
Type an amount in US dollar and read it in Czech koruna at once. The page uses the European Central Bank's reference rate, and tells you which day that rate is from.
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The last thirty days
Where these codes and rates come from
The three letters in EUR, USD or JPY are not an abbreviation someone invented for a website: they are ISO 4217, a standard in which the first two letters are the country's own code and the third is usually the initial of the currency. The figures on this page come from the European Central Bank, which publishes one set of reference rates each working day, around 16:00 Central European time, agreed between the central banks of the Eurosystem. They are a daily snapshot meant for statistics and accounting, not a live trading feed — which is exactly why they are the same number for everyone, rather than whatever one bank happened to quote at one moment.
Where you meet an exchange rate
You meet an exchange rate four or five times a year without thinking about it: booking a trip, paying an invoice issued abroad, buying from a foreign shop, reading a salary offer in another currency, or checking what a card charge really cost. In all of these the reference rate is the honest middle, and the price you actually pay sits a little to one side of it. Knowing the middle is what lets you see how wide that margin is.
Questions people ask
Is this the rate my bank will give me?
No, and no page can promise one. This is the European Central Bank's reference rate: the midpoint published once a day for statistics. A bank, a card scheme or an exchange office adds its own margin on top — usually between half a percent and three percent, sometimes more at an airport counter. Use this figure to judge the offer you are given, not to predict it.
How often does the figure change, and what happens at weekends?
The European Central Bank publishes once each working day, in the afternoon, Central European time. There is no publication on Saturdays, Sundays or TARGET holidays, so on those days the page shows the last working day's rate and says which day it belongs to. The chart alongside is one year of the same daily series.
Is the answer exact?
Where both units are defined in terms of one another by whole numbers, yes — the page says so above the figure, and the only rounding is in how many digits are shown. Where the ratio has no finite decimal, the page shows twelve significant digits and says the relation is approximate rather than pretending otherwise.
Does anything I type leave my device?
No. The arithmetic runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no server to upload it to. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network switched off.
A day in Prague, hour by hour, priced in dollars
The easiest way to feel what the Czech koruna is worth to an American is to spend a day in Prague and watch the prices go by. Nothing here is a real receipt; the figures are typical for the Czech capital and are meant to show you how a handful of dollars behave when they meet the crown. Whenever you need to Convert USD to CZK for your own plans, this page does the arithmetic with the European Central Bank's reference rates, combining the dollar and koruna rates against the euro, and shows the date of those rates. Your amount stays in your browser.
7:30, breakfast
The coffee and the kolache
Before you Convert USD to CZK for a day's budget, start with a breakfast price, since it anchors the rest.
A morning in a Prague café begins with a coffee at around sixty to ninety crowns and a pastry at thirty to fifty. For an American that is three or four dollars for the lot, a fair price for a good breakfast. Czech bakeries sell sweet buns called koláče, which Czech immigrants brought to Texas and Nebraska, where they are still baked as kolaches in towns that preserve the memory of their ancestors.
Price tags in crowns only
Prices are written in crowns with the symbol Kč after the number, and with a space between thousands. Shops near the centre sometimes add a price in euros or dollars. Ignore it and look at the crown figure, because the other is the shop's own conversion, usually worse than the one here.
9:00, walking and tickets
The castle and the bridge
When you Convert USD to CZK for a week of sightseeing, the biggest line is usually the hotel, not the tickets.
Entry to the main circuit of Prague Castle costs around 250 to 500 crowns depending on the ticket, the Charles Bridge is free and so are most of the streets of the Old Town. You can see an entire city for less than the price of a night at a theatre in New York. When you Convert USD to CZK for a day of sightseeing, remember that the largest cost is time, not money.
Public transport
It helps to Convert USD to CZK for the three-day pass and compare it with single tickets.
A 24-hour ticket on the metro, trams and buses costs 120 crowns, a 72-hour ticket 330. The system is cheap, clean and punctual. You buy a ticket at a machine or with a phone, validate it, and keep it until you leave the vehicle.
A word about taxis
Taxis hailed on the street can charge far more than app-based services, particularly near the main squares. Use an app that shows the fare in advance in crowns, or walk. In the centre, walking is faster anyway.
12:30, lunch
The daily menu
Anyone who must Convert USD to CZK for lunches can save by choosing the set menu in every meal.
Czech restaurants offer a set lunch, the denní menu, which usually includes a soup and a main course for 150 to 250 crowns. It is the most economical way to eat well, and it is how locals do it. Americans who ask for a menu in the evening will find the prices about double. A good habit is to make lunch the main meal of the day.
What a Czech lunch is
Soup, then a main dish such as svíčková, beef in a creamy vegetable sauce with dumplings, or vepřo knedlo zelo, roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut. Dumplings in Czech cooking are bread-like slices, not the dumplings of Chinese cuisine. A meal like this would cost fifteen dollars in a restaurant in the United States and about seven in Prague.
15:00, the beer
The cheapest pint in Europe
The Czech Republic has the highest beer consumption per person in the world, and a half-litre in a normal pub costs 50 to 80 crowns, two to three dollars. In a tourist trap on a main square it can be double. Beer in the Czech Republic is a staple, and a pub is an everyday place where people eat, talk and play cards.
Budweiser, the other one
The Czech town of České Budějovice, called Budweis in German, gave its name to a beer called Budvar, and for over a century the Czech brewery and the American brewer Anheuser-Busch have fought over the name in courts around the world. In Europe you may buy Czech Budweiser, in the United States the American one, and each is sold in its own territory under its own legal arrangement. It is one of the longest trademark disputes in history.
18:00, shopping
Glass, garnets and wooden toys
A shopper who needs to Convert USD to CZK for gifts should compare the shop's crown price with the table here.
Bohemian crystal, garnet jewellery and wooden toys are classic souvenirs. A set of crystal glasses costs between 1,500 and 5,000 crowns, a garnet pendant a few thousand, a wooden puppet a few hundred. Shops near the castle quote in crowns and sometimes in euros or dollars, and the foreign-currency price is usually worse than the one in crowns.
Tax-free shopping
Visitors from outside the European Union can claim back value-added tax on purchases above 2,000 crowns in one shop, by asking for the form and having it stamped at the airport. The refund is in crowns or by card, and its worth in dollars depends on the rate on the day.
20:00, music and evening
The New World Symphony
The Czech composer Antonín Dvořák wrote his Symphony No. 9, From the New World, in 1893 while living in New York, and it premiered at Carnegie Hall. It is one of the best-known links between the two countries. A concert ticket in Prague costs between 400 and 1,500 crowns, much less than in New York for a comparable seat.
Theatres and cinemas
The black-light theatre, the puppet theatre and opera at the State Opera are Prague traditions. Tickets are sold in crowns, and the cheapest seats cost the equivalent of ten dollars. Always buy from the venue or a licensed seller; touts near the squares sell at inflated prices.
22:00, paying and counting
Cards and cash
In practice you rarely need to Convert USD to CZK in cash at home; a card and a bank machine in Prague do the job.
Cards are accepted almost everywhere, including in trams and small cafés, and contactless payment is the norm. A modest amount of cash is useful for markets and tips. When a terminal offers to charge you in dollars, choose crowns, since the operator's conversion is nearly always worse than your bank's.
Cash machines and exchange offices
Machines belonging to banks give the best rate. Independent machines and the exchange offices on the tourist streets often use a poor conversion or a hidden commission. Choose a bank machine, and refuse the offer of a conversion into dollars.
Tipping
Ten per cent is customary in restaurants, left in cash or added to the card payment when the waiter asks. Round up the fare in taxis. Compared with the American habit of twenty per cent, the Czech one is modest.
The dollar and the koruna through the years
1993 to 2008
Companies that had to Convert USD to CZK in those years saw their costs rise with each strong quarter.
When the koruna was created in 1993, a dollar bought around thirty crowns. The currency was fairly stable for the next fifteen years, with the dollar falling below twenty crowns at the peak of the strong-koruna period in 2008. The crown was the pride of a young democracy, and Czech prices for Americans rose accordingly.
The crisis and the floor
After the global financial crisis the koruna weakened, and from 2013 to 2017 the Czech National Bank held it down at 27 per euro. During this period the dollar-crown rate followed the dollar-euro rate. Since then the crown has floated freely.
The strong-dollar years
In 2022 the dollar rose sharply against almost every currency, and for a time it was worth more crowns than at any point since the early 2010s. An American in Prague that year found everything cheaper than expected.
Czech Americans and the money that crosses
Cedar Rapids, Nebraska and Texas
Roughly one and a half million Americans claim Czech ancestry, and some towns in Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Texas keep the heritage alive with festivals, polka bands and bakeries. In Cedar Rapids, a Czech and Slovak museum records the immigrant story, and in Texas villages such as West hold a kolache festival each year. Descendants who plan a visit to the villages their families left often start with a simple question: how many crowns is a dollar, and does it go far?
The answer is that it goes quite far. Small towns in Bohemia and Moravia offer guesthouses for 700 to 1,200 crowns a night and meals for 150 to 250, so a couple can cover a week for less than the price of two nights in a big American city. When you Convert USD to CZK for such a journey, set a daily limit and a small reserve for archive visits, translations and a driver.
Genealogy and archives
Records of births, marriages and deaths in the Czech lands are kept by regional archives, many of which are digitised and searchable online. Fees for copies and for a researcher are quoted in crowns and are modest by American standards. If you plan to spend a day in an archive, ask in advance which documents you need to bring, and allow time for a translation from Czech or German, since older records are in either language.
Names that changed
Czech surnames with accents often lost them in America, and many were respelled by immigration officers. A name like Novák became Novak, Dvořák became Dvorak, and Šebesta became Sebesta. If you search in archives, try all the variants, and bring a list of villages from family letters.
American business in the Czech Republic
Shared-service centres and factories
Finance teams that Convert USD to CZK for payroll often agree an internal rate for the year.
Honeywell, IBM, Amazon and other American companies run large operations in Prague, Brno and Ostrava, ranging from research centres to warehouses. Wages are paid in crowns, parent accounts in dollars, and the exchange rate affects the margin. A treasurer who must Convert USD to CZK for payroll will often fix an internal budget rate for the year and review it each quarter.
Czech exports to the United States
Czech companies sell beer, glass, machinery, cars and software to America. A Czech brewery that ships a container of beer to a distributor in Chicago is paid in dollars some weeks after loading, and the rate between the order and the payment can turn a profit into a loss. Larger firms hedge with forward contracts; smaller ones use shorter payment terms.
Invoicing and VAT
An invoice in dollars issued by a Czech company must show the VAT in crowns at the rate of the Czech National Bank on the date of the taxable supply. Czech accountants use that rate. The reference rate here may differ slightly, since it comes from a different source and moment.
Studying and working in the Czech Republic
American students in Prague
American universities run study-abroad programmes in Prague, and Charles University, founded in 1348, offers English-language courses. Tuition for a semester abroad is usually paid to the home institution in dollars, while living costs are in crowns. A room in a shared flat costs between 8,000 and 15,000 crowns a month.
Teaching English and working remotely
Many Americans teach English in schools and language centres or work remotely from Prague, attracted by the lower cost of living and the city's beauty. They are paid in crowns or in dollars, and the question of when to change dollars into crowns is a monthly one. A weak crown boosts their buying power; a strong one reduces it.
Visas and residence
Applicants who Convert USD to CZK for proof of funds should print the page with the date visible.
Americans can stay in the Schengen area for ninety days in a hundred and eighty without a visa. For longer stays, a long-term visa or residence permit is required, with proof of funds stated in crowns or in euros. Convert USD to CZK on the date of the application, keep a printout showing the date and ask the authority which source it accepts.
What the koruna looks like in your hand
Notes with portraits
The notes show Czech figures: the 100-crown note has Charles IV, the 200 Jan Amos Komenský, the 500 Božena Němcová, the 1,000 František Palacký, the 2,000 Emmy Destinn, the singer, and the 5,000 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia. The most common notes in daily life are the 100, 200 and 500.
Coins
Coins come in 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 crowns, with a bimetallic design for the 10, 20 and 50. The hundredth part, the haléř, has been withdrawn, so prices are in whole crowns. The 20-crown coin is useful for public toilets, which are usually pay-to-enter.
Sums in writing
Czechs write 12 500 Kč with a space, and amounts with decimals as 12 500,50 Kč. An American might read the comma as a thousands separator, so check twice before paying a large invoice.
Using the converter
Dollars in, crowns out
Each time you Convert USD to CZK here, the date beside the answer tells you how old the rates are.
Type the amount in dollars. The page combines the dollar and koruna rates against the euro and shows the result with the date. At weekends and on holidays you see the last published rate, and the page says so. A table of common amounts and a line of the last thirty days sit below. For the opposite direction, Convert CZK to USD applies the same rates the other way.
Neighbours of the pair
Euro, zloty and forint
The Czech Republic does most of its trade in euros, so Convert USD to EUR and Convert EUR to CZK often complete a calculation. For the neighbours there are Convert USD to PLN and Convert USD to HUF, and for Britain Convert GBP to CZK.
Time and distance
Prague is six hours ahead of New York. Convert EST to CET shows the winter gap. Czech roads are signed in kilometres, and Convert KM to MI turns a distance into miles.
Mistakes when you Convert USD to CZK
Thousands with a space
12 500 Kč is twelve thousand five hundred, not twelve and a half. Czech notation uses a space for thousands and a comma for decimals.
The board with a minimum
An exchange board that shows a great rate for a very large sum is bait. Ask for the total in crowns for your own amount.
An old rate
A rate from last month may be out by several per cent. The date next to the result is there to prevent that.
Short answers
How do I Convert USD to CZK here?
Type the dollars in the first field. The page shows the crowns at the latest reference rates, with their date.
Is the amount stored?
No. It stays in your browser.
Private by design
Only the table of rates is fetched. The number you type never leaves your browser, and no account is needed. It is a quiet way to Convert USD to CZK without telling a website what you plan to spend.
The takeaway
To Convert USD to CZK, enter the dollars and read the crowns at the European Central Bank's latest reference rates, with their date. The figure is the midpoint of the market, so any counter will give a little less. Pay in crowns, enjoy the set lunch and the half-litre, and compare every quote with the reference.