Currency pair (“swissie”) · cross of two ECB reference rates

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

The USD/CHF reference rate was 0.82396 on 16 Oct 2026: one USD was worth 0.82396 CHF. That is 3.2% above a year earlier and 83% of the way up its 52-week range. Annualised volatility over the year was 7.0%.

USD/CHF · 16 Oct 2026: 0.82396Previous fixing 0.83021 (15 Oct 2026) · ▼ −0.75%
12-month change: ▲ +3.2%from 0.79852 on 16 Oct 2025
52-week range: 0.76703–0.83528low 10 Feb 2026 · high 1 Oct 2026
Volatility, 1 yr: 7.0%annualised; full-year average since 2016: 7.5%

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 USD/CHF has moved about as much as usual: 7.0% annualised volatility against a 7.5% average for full calendar years since 2016. Its calmest full year was 2019 (5.3%) and its busiest 2022 (10.0%).
Since 4 Jan 2016 the rate has ranged from 0.76703 (10 Feb 2026) to 1.03117 (20 Dec 2016). Today's fixing is higher than 13% of the 2,763 daily fixings in that period.
Five years ago, on 15 Oct 2021, the fixing was 0.92475, so the rate is 10.9% below that level. Over one month it is ▲ +0.60% (from 0.81902 on 16 Sept 2026).
The largest single-day move of the past year was on 8 Apr 2026: 0.79969 → 0.78789 (▼ −1.48%).
Read the other way round, 1 CHF was worth 1.21365 USD on 16 Oct 2026 (CHF/USD).

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

The ECB does not publish USD/CHF; it publishes each currency against the euro. The cross is the ratio of the two: CHF per euro ÷ USD per euro = 0.92720 ÷ 1.12530 = 0.82396 on 16 Oct 2026. Because both legs are fixed at the same moment, the cross is internally consistent, but it can differ slightly from a market quote at 14:10 CET. See how to calculate a cross rate.

Year by year

USD/CHF yearly close, change, high, low, average and volatility
Year	Close	Change	High	Low	Average	Vol.
2026 to date	0.82396	▲ +3.9%	0.83528 1 Oct	0.76703 10 Feb	0.79784	6.4%
2025	0.79268	▼ −12.5%	0.91703 14 Jan	0.78711 17 Sept	0.83104	8.0%
2024	0.90596	▲ +8.1%	0.91550 24 May	0.84307 30 Sept	0.88033	6.9%
2023	0.83801	▼ −9.2%	0.94182 2 Mar	0.83696 28 Dec	0.89897	8.3%
2022	0.92321	▲ +1.2%	1.01394 3 Nov	0.91107 14 Jan	0.95513	10.0%
2021	0.91215	▲ +3.6%	0.94492 1 Apr	0.87705 6 Jan	0.91432	6.3%
2020	0.88029	▼ −8.9%	0.98496 20 Mar	0.88029 31 Dec	0.93840	7.4%
2019	0.96617	▼ −1.8%	1.02203 25 Apr	0.96617 31 Dec	0.99372	5.3%
2018	0.98419	▲ +0.9%	1.00950 13 Nov	0.92412 15 Feb	0.97856	6.6%
2017	0.97574	▼ −4.2%	1.03052 3 Jan	0.94505 29 Aug	0.98465	7.5%
2016	1.01878	—	1.03117 20 Dec	0.94883 3 May	0.98526	8.8%

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
11 Nov 2022	0.98794	0.95499	▼ −3.34%
11 Apr 2025	0.83911	0.81544	▼ −2.82%
3 Apr 2025	0.88337	0.85951	▼ −2.70%
5 Aug 2024	0.87060	0.84844	▼ −2.55%
16 Jun 2022	1.00038	0.97519	▼ −2.52%

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