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By the NRIWallah team · Last reviewed: September 2026

What was it worth on the day?

Live converters answer what your money is worth now. This answers what it was worth on 10 August — the question you actually get asked when you are reconstructing something months later.

The transaction

Anything from to .

On that day, it was worth

Rupees to the over the last year

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Click the chart to jump the converter to that day.

DateRupees per 1

Rates are the Bank of England's daily spot rates, published every working day and kept permanently — a citable figure you can point an accountant, an employer or a tax authority at. They are mid-market reference rates, so they are not what a bank or transfer service would have given you on the day: if you are recording what a transfer actually cost, use the figure on your statement. Use these when there is no statement to point at, and apply the same basis consistently.

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Common Questions


Because the rupee moves, and over a year it moves a lot. Across the window this tool covers, the rupee weakened against the pound by roughly 8%. Convert an August transaction at a December rate and you are out by several percent — which nobody notices on a taxi fare and everybody notices on a property sale. More to the point, using the wrong date is the kind of error that is obvious to whoever is checking your figures, and it undermines the numbers that were right.

The Bank of England’s daily spot rate, published every working day and kept permanently. It is a central bank reference rate, which means it is dated, public and citable — you can point an accountant, an employer, or a tax authority at the exact figure and the exact day. That is the property that matters when you are justifying a number after the fact, and it is the reason this does not use a commercial rate feed.

Because the Bank of England only quotes on its own working days. Weekends, UK bank holidays and a handful of other days have no rate at all — 8 and 9 August 2026 were a Saturday and a Sunday, so neither exists. When your date is one of those, the tool uses the nearest preceding quoted day and says so on screen. Taking the previous quoted day is the standard treatment; taking a later one is not, because a rate published after your transaction did not exist when the transaction happened.

Not directly. The Bank of England is a sterling publisher, so it quotes rupees against the pound. The dollar and euro figures here are cross-rates, calculated by dividing the rupee-sterling rate by the dollar-sterling or euro-sterling rate for the same day. That is ordinary practice and the arithmetic is exact, but the tool labels those two as derived so you can say so if anyone asks. The pound figure is a directly published rate.

No, and it is not trying to. These are mid-market reference rates — the midpoint of the market, before anyone’s margin. A bank or transfer service adds a spread, so the rate you actually received was worse, sometimes by 3–4%. If you are recording what a transfer genuinely cost you and there is a statement showing the amount, use the statement. Use these rates when there is no statement to point at, which is the situation this tool is built for. To see what the spread costs on a transfer you are about to make, the INR Converter compares providers.

Not here, yet. The tool holds a rolling twelve months, refreshed daily, which covers the overwhelming majority of what people need — a current tax year, a recent claim, a transfer from a few months ago. The underlying source goes back much further, so if there is demand for multi-year lookups the window can be extended. If you need an older date now, the Bank of England’s own statistical database has the full series.

Two things. First, pick one basis — a daily rate like this, or your tax authority’s published monthly rate — and use it consistently all year, because consistency is what gets tested, not precision. Second, if you paid from an NRO account and the company is reimbursing you, take the reimbursement in the foreign currency to your account abroad rather than as rupees into the NRO. Paying rupees into an NRO account moves freely transferable money into a balance subject to the annual repatriation limit and its certification paperwork, for no benefit at all.

What this does

Converts between rupees and pounds, euros or dollars on a specific past date, in both directions. Enter ₹10,000 on 10 August and you get the pound figure, the rate behind it, and the day that rate was quoted.

Rates are the Bank of England’s daily spot rates — published, dated and citable. Rupee-to-pound is a directly published series; euro and dollar are cross-rates through sterling. Weekends and UK bank holidays carry no quote, so the tool falls back to the nearest preceding quoted day and says so on screen.

For money you are about to send rather than money already spent, see the INR Converter .

Every rate and threshold here is sourced, dated and shown on the page — but tax rules change, and we would rather be told than be wrong. Reports go to the team that maintains the tool. If you can point at the official source, that gets it fixed fastest.

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Prefer email? admin@nriwallah.com. How we source and review these numbers is set out in our methodology.

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