About the AUD/CRC rate
The AUD/CRC rate is how many CRC one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/CRC rate history.
Related views of this rate: the reverse rate, CRC → AUD, is on the receiving Costa Rican colón view, and sending Australian dollars to Costa Rica is covered on the AUD → CRC transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
What Costa Rica's central bank aims at, and where colones are traded
Costa Rica's difficulty with its inflation target has been coming in under it. The International Monetary Fund's 2026 country report records the Banco Central de Costa Rica targeting three per cent within a tolerance band of two to four, and records eleven consecutive months of deflation and nearly three years spent below that target.
Costa Rica has run a managed float since January 2015, and the wholesale market underneath it is a named institution with a published rulebook. MONEX is defined in the Reglamento del Sistema de Pagos, in the consolidated text held by Costa Rica's Procuraduria General de la Republica, as the market organised by the central bank for negotiating purchases and sales of foreign currency. Its participants are the central bank itself, entities supervised by the financial regulator, exchange houses, stockbrokers and other intermediaries the Bank's Board authorises; anyone not authorised as an intermediary may enter only for their own foreign exchange needs.
How offers meet is set out in the same regulation. It matches orders automatically on two stated principles, the best market offer and first in time first in right, permits partial matching, and has the Bank execute automatic matching at the close.
Colon banknotes vary in one dimension only. The Bank lists five circulating denominations from one thousand to twenty thousand colones, and its individual pages for the one thousand, ten thousand and twenty thousand each give the substrate as polymer. Every one of those three is sixty-seven millimetres deep and differs only in length, so the denominations are told apart along one axis.
Sources: International Monetary Fund, Costa Rica: Country Report No. 26/116, June 2026 · Reglamento del Sistema de Pagos, Libro XX, session 5402-2008 of 12 November 2008 (Procuraduria General de la Republica, Costa Rica) · Banco Central de Costa Rica, Regimen cambiario · Banco Central de Costa Rica, Billetes y monedas · Banco Central de Costa Rica, Billete de 1.000 colones · Banco Central de Costa Rica, Billete de 20.000 colones