About the AUD/CUP rate
The AUD/CUP rate is how many CUP 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/CUP rate history.
Related views of this rate: the reverse rate, CUP → AUD, is on the receiving Cuban peso view, and sending Australian dollars to Cuba is covered on the AUD → CUP 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 the Banco Central de Cuba publishes
Most central banks publish one official exchange rate. The Banco Central de Cuba publishes three. Its rates page carries Segmento I, Segmento II and Segmento III alongside one another, each stamped with the day it is valid for - "vigente para operaciones del día" - and all three were live on 3 September 2026.
Within a segment the number then depends on what you are doing with the money. The Bank sets out its official rates by operation type: cash over the counter, cash at airports and hotels, cash on Sundays and public holidays, transfers from abroad, transfers from abroad converted into cash, purchases with international cards, payment in foreign currency at shops that price in pesos, transfers between foreign-currency accounts, and separate lines again for legal persons rather than individuals - each with a buying and a selling side for banks and financial institutions. That is a segmented exchange system rather than a single posted price, and the Bank documents it as one.
It also publishes something few central banks do. Its catalogue of banknotes in circulation covers not only the Cuban peso but ten foreign currencies, described as the principal foreign currencies accepted in the country: the US dollar, the euro, the Canadian dollar, the Mexican peso, sterling, the yen, the Swiss franc, and the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish kroner. Each has its own denomination pages, illustrated the way an issuing authority illustrates its own money.
For an Australian the useful question is which of those two lists the Australian dollar appears on, and the answer is only the first. The Bank quotes it on the rates board in every segment. It is absent from the banknote catalogue, as are the Russian rouble and the Chinese yuan - the other two currencies the Bank prices without cataloguing. A currency can carry an official Cuban rate and still not be one the central bank lists as accepted in the country.
The peso itself is issued across twelve denominations, running from one peso to five thousand, and still includes a three-peso note.
Sources: Banco Central de Cuba, tasas de cambio · Banco Central de Cuba, billetes en circulación · Banco Central de Cuba, billetes en circulación: pesos cubanos