Currency pair · direct ECB reference rate

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

The EUR/PLN reference rate was 4.37000 on 16 Oct 2026: one EUR was worth 4.37000 PLN. That is 2.8% above a year earlier and 92% of the way up its 52-week range. Annualised volatility over the year was 3.5%.

EUR/PLN · 16 Oct 2026: 4.37000Previous fixing 4.37000 (15 Oct 2026) · 0.00%
12-month change: ▲ +2.8%from 4.25130 on 16 Oct 2025
52-week range: 4.20230–4.38500low 27 Jan 2026 · high 12 Oct 2026
Volatility, 1 yr: 3.5%annualised; full-year average since 2016: 5.3%

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/PLN has been calmer than usual: 3.5% annualised volatility against a 5.3% average for full calendar years since 2016. Its calmest full year was 2019 (3.2%) and its busiest 2022 (8.2%).
Since 4 Jan 2016 the rate has ranged from 4.13080 (27 Feb 2025) to 4.95250 (7 Mar 2022). Today's fixing is higher than 60% of the 2,763 daily fixings in that period.
Five years ago, on 15 Oct 2021, the fixing was 4.56440, so the rate is 4.3% below that level. Over one month it is ▲ +0.52% (from 4.34730 on 16 Sept 2026).
The largest single-day move of the past year was on 3 Mar 2026: 4.24400 → 4.28650 (▲ +1.00%).
Read the other way round, 1 PLN was worth 0.22883 EUR on 16 Oct 2026 (PLN/EUR).

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

The ECB publishes EUR/PLN directly as one of its euro foreign exchange reference rates: 4.37000 PLN 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/PLN yearly close, change, high, low, average and volatility
Year	Close	Change	High	Low	Average	Vol.
2026 to date	4.37000	▲ +3.5%	4.38500 12 Oct	4.20230 27 Jan	4.27674	3.2%
2025	4.22100	▼ −1.3%	4.29530 9 Apr	4.13080 27 Feb	4.23966	4.4%
2024	4.27500	▼ −1.5%	4.39930 17 Jan	4.24830 28 May	4.30580	4.5%
2023	4.33950	▼ −7.3%	4.78750 13 Feb	4.30900 15 Dec	4.54197	6.1%
2022	4.68080	▲ +1.8%	4.95250 7 Mar	4.49210 10 Feb	4.68611	8.2%
2021	4.59690	▲ +0.8%	4.71190 23 Nov	4.45200 3 Jun	4.56518	5.4%
2020	4.55970	▲ +7.1%	4.62250 29 Oct	4.22190 14 Jan	4.44305	6.2%
2019	4.25680	▼ −1.0%	4.39150 25 Sept	4.24270 1 Jul	4.29762	3.2%
2018	4.30140	▲ +3.0%	4.39150 3 Jul	4.14220 26 Jan	4.26149	4.2%
2017	4.17700	▼ −5.3%	4.41230 2 Jan	4.17120 31 May	4.25701	4.1%
2016	4.41030	—	4.50050 5 Dec	4.23400 4 Apr	4.36321	6.6%

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
1 Mar 2022	4.68350	4.79470	▲ +2.37%
24 Feb 2022	4.54810	4.65540	▲ +2.36%
24 Jun 2016	4.35710	4.45500	▲ +2.25%
7 Mar 2022	4.85300	4.95250	▲ +2.05%
7 Sept 2023	4.50100	4.58830	▲ +1.94%

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.PLN.EUR.SP00.A, retrieved 16 Oct 2026 via the ECB Data Portal).
Method for crosses, ranges and volatility: methodology.