The live mid-market AUD→SAR rate and what it means for a transfer to Saudi Arabia. We explain the process; we never recommend a provider.
| You send (AUD) | Mid-market equivalent (SAR) |
|---|---|
| 500 AUD | 1,307 SAR |
| 1,000 AUD | 2,615 SAR |
| 2,000 AUD | 5,230 SAR |
| 5,000 AUD | 13,074 SAR |
These are mid-market equivalents, not transfer quotes - a provider deducts its exchange-rate margin and any fee from these figures. STRUCK 11:00 AEST · TUE 13 OCT.
A continent pretending to be a country - Australia is the only nation that fills an entire continent, with most of its 27 million people clinging to the coast while the red-dirt interior does its own thing.
A blue field with the Union Jack in the canton, a large white seven-pointed Commonwealth Star below it, and the five white stars of the Southern Cross at the fly. Six of the big star's points stand for the states and the seventh for the territories; the Southern Cross marks Australia's place in the southern sky.
Occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia is home to Islam's two holiest cities and a desert, the Rub' al Khali, so vast it's called the Empty Quarter.
A green field two thirds as wide as it is long, bearing the Islamic declaration of faith in white Thuluth script with a drawn sword beneath it. Article 3 of the Basic Law fixes the colour, the proportions, the wording and the sword, and adds that the flag is never lowered. The flag law that sets out the rest assigns no element a meaning; the reading the state has since put on record takes the declaration of faith for a message of peace and Islam, and the sword for strength, pride, and high wisdom and standing.
Saudi Arabia maintains a fixed riyal-to-dollar rate, so this corridor behaves like an AUD/USD trade wearing a different label. Salary transfers out of the Kingdom are the common direction, and payroll timing tends to matter more to a sender here than rate timing does.
Australia’s exchange controls went with the float. A Reserve Bank research paper dates their abolition to the December 1983 decision that ended the crawling peg and opened the country to capital moving in both directions. Sanctions are a separate matter and do still apply. Targeted financial sanctions prohibit making assets available to designated persons and entities, and the Australian Sanctions Office within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade maintains the Consolidated List that names them. The other requirement sits with the provider rather than the sender. Before it carries out a first transfer the provider must complete customer identification: collect identifying information, then verify it against reliable and independent documents or electronic data. That is the request for identity documents a first-time sender meets before anything can be sent.
The report that follows is the provider’s, not yours. A reporting entity must lodge an international funds transfer instruction report with AUSTRAC for a transfer of any value into or out of Australia, within ten business days of the instruction. There is no amount below which one is not filed, and on a transfer sent through a provider there is nothing for the sender to lodge. What is left to a sender is timing and route. The banking day that decides when money lands is the destination’s, not Australia’s, and Australian business hours run ahead of nearly every country on this list: Monday morning in Sydney is still Sunday in the Americas. The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures records that payments reaching a beneficiary country outside its operating hours stall until the system reopens. Route matters as much as the hour. A payment may pass through correspondent banks on its way, or through a provider that operates in both countries and, the Reserve Bank notes, avoids some of the costs of that intermediation.
New to sending money to Saudi Arabia? The corridor guide walks through how a transfer works and what to check. Related pages on this corridor: the SAR → AUD page covers the opposite direction, the AUD/SAR converter page has amount conversion and history, and the currency converter handles any amount. On the other end of this transfer? The receiver’s view covers what arrives and what to check.
How much Saudi riyal will the recipient actually get?
A little less than the mid-market figures on this page. Providers apply their own exchange rate (the mid-market rate minus a margin) and usually a transfer fee, so the amount that arrives in Saudi Arabia depends on both. Comparing a provider's quote against the mid-market rate shown here reveals the real cost.
Is there a best day to send money to Saudi Arabia?
Rates move constantly and Tradergy doesn't forecast them. What you can control is the cost of the transfer itself: the gap between the quoted rate and the mid-market rate, plus any fees.
Why is my provider’s rate worse than this one?
No retail provider transacts at the mid-market rate - it is the midpoint of the wholesale market. What separates it from a quoted rate is margin, and margin is normally a larger cost than any advertised fee.