Currency pair · direct ECB reference rate

What is the EUR/CHF reference rate and how has it moved?

The EUR/CHF reference rate was 0.92720 on 16 Oct 2026: one EUR was worth 0.92720 CHF. That is 0.3% below a year earlier and 56% of the way up its 52-week range. Annualised volatility over the year was 3.9%.

EUR/CHF · 16 Oct 2026: 0.92720Previous fixing 0.93050 (15 Oct 2026) · ▼ −0.35%
12-month change: ▼ −0.3%from 0.93020 on 16 Oct 2025
52-week range: 0.90080–0.94780low 9 Mar 2026 · high 30 Sept 2026
Volatility, 1 yr: 3.9%annualised; full-year average since 2016: 4.9%

The past twelve months

Daily ECB reference fixings, 16 Oct 2025 – 16 Oct 2026 (255 fixings). Yellow dot: latest.

What the record shows

Over the past year EUR/CHF has been calmer than usual: 3.9% annualised volatility against a 4.9% average for full calendar years since 2016. Its calmest full year was 2021 (3.6%) and its busiest 2022 (8.2%).
Since 4 Jan 2016 the rate has ranged from 0.90080 (9 Mar 2026) to 1.19860 (25 Apr 2018). Today's fixing is higher than 5% of the 2,763 daily fixings in that period.
Five years ago, on 15 Oct 2021, the fixing was 1.07290, so the rate is 13.6% below that level. Over one month it is ▼ −1.87% (from 0.94490 on 16 Sept 2026).
The largest single-day move of the past year was on 2 Oct 2026: 0.94370 → 0.92790 (▼ −1.67%).
Read the other way round, 1 CHF was worth 1.07852 EUR on 16 Oct 2026 (CHF/EUR).

How is the EUR/CHF figure on this page produced?

The ECB publishes EUR/CHF directly as one of its euro foreign exchange reference rates: 0.92720 CHF per euro on 16 Oct 2026. The page shows that figure unchanged. Reference rates are set around 14:10 CET on TARGET business days, from a regular concertation between central banks, and the ECB states they are published for information purposes only.

Year by year

EUR/CHF yearly close, change, high, low, average and volatility
Year	Close	Change	High	Low	Average	Vol.
2026 to date	0.92720	▼ −0.5%	0.94780 30 Sept	0.90080 9 Mar	0.92422	3.5%
2025	0.93140	▼ −1.0%	0.96410 14 Mar	0.91850 14 Nov	0.93703	4.7%
2024	0.94120	▲ +1.6%	0.99240 24 May	0.92670 10 Dec	0.95263	5.4%
2023	0.92600	▼ −6.0%	1.00560 12 Jan	0.92600 29 Dec	0.97180	5.1%
2022	0.98470	▼ −4.7%	1.05710 7 Feb	0.94370 28 Sept	1.00471	8.2%
2021	1.03310	▼ −4.4%	1.11140 4 Mar	1.03310 31 Dec	1.08115	3.6%
2020	1.08020	▼ −0.5%	1.08660 5 Jun	1.05110 23 Apr	1.07052	4.4%
2019	1.08540	▼ −3.7%	1.14700 23 Apr	1.08290 3 Sept	1.11245	3.8%
2018	1.12690	▼ −3.7%	1.19860 25 Apr	1.12170 7 Sept	1.15496	4.8%
2017	1.17020	▲ +9.0%	1.17720 27 Dec	1.06370 8 Feb	1.11167	4.5%
2016	1.07390	—	1.11690 4 Feb	1.06870 20 Dec	1.09016	4.4%

Change = last fixing of the year against the last fixing of the previous year (2016 has no prior close in this record). Vol. = annualised standard deviation of daily log changes within the year. 2026 runs to 16 Oct 2026.

Since January 2016

ECB reference fixings, thinned to about every fifth fixing for drawing; the tables use every fixing.

Largest one-day moves since 2016

Date	From	To	Move
16 Jun 2022	1.04350	1.01420	▼ −2.81%
19 May 2022	1.04860	1.02650	▼ −2.11%
2 Oct 2026	0.94370	0.92790	▼ −1.67%
9 Aug 2017	1.14780	1.12930	▼ −1.61%
4 Feb 2022	1.04070	1.05670	▲ +1.54%

Moves are measured between consecutive ECB fixings, so a move after a holiday can span more than one calendar day.

Sources

European Central Bank — euro foreign exchange reference rates (series EXR.D.CHF.EUR.SP00.A, retrieved 16 Oct 2026 via the ECB Data Portal).
Method for crosses, ranges and volatility: methodology.