About the AUD/NPR rate
The AUD/NPR rate is how many NPR 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/NPR rate history.
Related views of this rate: the reverse rate, NPR → AUD, is on the receiving Nepalese rupee view, and sending Australian dollars to Nepal is covered on the AUD → NPR 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.
The one line on Nepal's rate board that is not a market rate
Nepal Rastra Bank publishes one currency apart from all the others on its daily board. The Indian rupee sits under its own heading, "Fixed by Nepal Rastra Bank", at one hundred Indian rupees to one hundred and sixty Nepalese. Every other line on that board reports a market; this one states an instrument. A paper by the Bank's own governor records that Nepal has pegged to Indian currency since 1960, and has run the peg alongside full current-account convertibility since 1993.
The choice of anchor is what makes the arrangement unusual. The Indian rupee is not itself a fully convertible currency, so Nepal ends up regulating not only how much of it may cross the border but which physical notes may. A notice in the Nepal Gazette permits Indian two hundred and five hundred rupee notes issued from 9 November 2016 onwards to be brought in, taken out and exchanged by Nepali and Indian citizens, up to twenty-five thousand Indian rupees a person; the five hundred and one thousand rupee notes issued before that date stay prohibited. A Nepali citizen may not carry Indian rupees to any country other than India at all.
Holding the parity is continuous work. The governor's paper describes the Bank as having to intervene in the foreign exchange market frequently and then sterilise the resulting liquidity by selling bonds, and managing its Indian-currency reserve through standby, swap and line-of-credit arrangements with India.
The money crossing the other way is large relative to everything else. The World Bank puts personal remittances received at 25.99 per cent of Nepal's gross domestic product in 2024, among the highest ratios anywhere, and the International Monetary Fund recorded gross international reserves of US$22.1 billion in February 2026, equal to 12.5 months of prospective imports.
Sources: Nepal Rastra Bank, daily foreign exchange rates · Nepal Rastra Bank, governor's paper on monetary policy and reserves management under a pegged exchange rate arrangement · Nepal Rastra Bank, notice on bringing cash foreign currency into and out of Nepal · International Monetary Fund, Nepal 2026 Article IV Consultation and Seventh ECF Review · World Bank, personal remittances received as a share of GDP