About the AUD/GTQ rate
The AUD/GTQ rate is how many GTQ 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/GTQ rate history.
Related views of this rate: the reverse rate, GTQ → AUD, is on the receiving Guatemalan quetzal view, and sending Australian dollars to Guatemala is covered on the AUD → GTQ 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 Guatemala does with the money sent home
Thirty years of Banco de Guatemala's own series show the scale. It puts foreign currency arriving as family remittances at about US$302 million in 1994 and at US$25,530 million in 2025. The International Monetary Fund records the flow as having stabilised at 19 per cent of gross domestic product, and notes that the dollar amounts quadrupled in the last decade alone.
Guatemala's answer to that is a published rule rather than discretion. The Monetary Board's resolution JM-135-2025, gazetted in the Diario de Centro América in December 2025 and in force from 1 January 2026, sets out a participation rule for the central bank in the institutional foreign exchange market. When a weighted average rate falls to or below the five-day moving average of the reference rate less a fluctuation margin of 1.05 per cent, the Bank convenes an auction to buy dollars of up to US$50.0 million, with a mirror-image trigger on the sell side and a ceiling of three auctions a day in either direction.
The parameters move, and the direction they moved is informative. The equivalent resolution for 2025 used a margin of 1.00 per cent, a maximum of US$20.0 million and up to five auctions a day. The rule became larger and less frequent.
What it does in practice the Fund names directly, describing it as taking the de facto form of a leaning against remittances intervention rule, insufficient to neutralise appreciation pressure but significantly dampening it. The accumulation is the visible residue: the Bank's own participation summary shows dollar purchases rising from US$437.4 million in 2022 to US$3,842.4 million in 2025, and its daily reserve ledger stood at US$33.7 billion on 1 September 2026. Inflation is targeted separately, at 4.0 per cent give or take a percentage point, an anchor in place since 2013.
Sources: Banco de Guatemala, Ingreso de Divisas por Remesas Familiares 2002-2026 · Banco de Guatemala, Remesas Familiares 1994-2001 · Resolución JM-135-2025, Diario de Centro América, 16 December 2025 · Resolución JM-172-2024, Diario de Centro América, 17 December 2024 · International Monetary Fund, Guatemala 2025 Article IV Consultation (Country Report No. 25/260) · Banco de Guatemala, Resumen de Participación en el Mercado Cambiario · Banco de Guatemala, Movimiento Diario de las Reservas Monetarias Internacionales