ISK to USD Converter
Icelandic krona to US dollars is a cross rate on this page, because the source is the European Central Bank and the ECB publishes every figure against the euro. The page opens with ISK in the From box and USD in the To box, ahead of whatever pair the converter last remembered, and converts at the reference rates for the date printed beside the answer. The panel shows all three numbers rather than one: krona per euro, dollars per euro, and the ISK to USD rate those two produce, to six significant figures, with the line "ISK to USD is calculated from those two published euro rates" under them, because that is exactly what it is. The date is never out of sight: it is in the chip above the panel, in the Rates from cell under the form, and in the block the Copy button puts on your clipboard. No figure appears before a dated set has been read, and the Rates from cell says so while the page is still fetching. The amount you type is multiplied in your own browser, so it is never sent to this site or to the ECB. What the page will not pretend to be is a price: a reference rate is a daily observation published for statistical use, with no fee, no spread and no card scheme markup in it, so the dollars a bank, a card or a transfer service settles at for krona is a different number.
Loading the published reference rates.
The rates in the panel are the euro reference rates the European Central Bank published on the date shown. The server that answered this page keeps its own copy of that file, asked for at most once every twelve hours and handed unchanged to everyone that server answers, and the amount you type is converted in your own browser: it is never sent anywhere. The date beside the answer is the one you are actually looking at. The ECB publishes on working days only, so a Saturday or a public holiday shows the previous working day's set rather than a new one.
Dated, and published once a day. Arithmetic at the European Central Bank reference rate for the date shown beside every answer, cross-converted through the euro. Reference rates are published once each working day for statistical use: they are not the rate a bank or a card will give you. Rates from the dated sample that ships with this page for 2026-09-07. Amounts between two currencies that are not the euro are our own calculation from two published euro rates. Source: European Central Bank euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Common questions
- How many US dollars is 1,000 Icelandic krona?
- That depends on the day, and the page names the day it used. The arithmetic is 1,000 multiplied by the dollars-per-euro rate and divided by the krona-per-euro rate. In the dated set that ships with this page, the ECB publication of 2026-09-07, those two were 1.1622 USD and 140.8 ISK to one euro, which gives 1 ISK = 0.00825426 USD, so 1,000 ISK came to 8.25 USD, 10,000 ISK to 82.54 USD and 1,000,000 ISK to 8,254.26 USD. Those are worked figures from one dated set, not today's: open the converter and it uses whatever set it has loaded, with that set's date printed next to the result.
- Why does the page show two euro rates instead of one ISK to USD rate?
- Because the source is euro reference rates, and neither the krona nor the dollar is the euro. The ECB file gives krona per euro and dollars per euro; the rate between them is our own division of the second by the first, and the readout labels it as our calculation rather than passing it off as a published quote. Showing both legs means you can check the arithmetic against the ECB's own page for the same date, which is linked under the tool.
- How fresh are these rates?
- The ECB publishes one set of euro reference rates on each working day, in the afternoon, Central European Time. The server that answers this page asks the ECB for that file at most once every twelve hours and hands the one set it holds, unchanged, to everyone it answers, which is why the observation date sits beside every answer instead of a clock. A Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday shows the previous working day's set rather than a new one. Past three days the page marks how old the set is, and past seven days it stops converting altogether and prints how old the figures are instead of a number, because a week-old reference rate is not a statement about today. If the rates cannot be loaded, the page says so and names the date and the origin of whatever set is on screen, so an old figure is never presented as a new one.
- Is this the rate my bank or my card will give me in Iceland?
- No, and the page says so under every answer. A European Central Bank reference rate is an observation published once a working day for statistical use. It carries no transfer fee, no exchange spread and no card scheme markup, while a bank, a card issuer or a money transfer service prices all three into what it settles at. What you see here is the reference observation for the date printed on it, not an offer from anybody, including us.
- Why does 1 ISK come back as 0.008254 USD rather than 0.01?
- Because rounding one krona to a cent would throw the answer away. Results print to two decimal places, and anything smaller than a cent keeps four significant figures instead, so 1 ISK reads 0.008254 USD while 100 ISK reads 0.83 USD and 10,000 ISK reads 82.54 USD. The rate itself is never rounded before the multiplication; the Rate cell shows it to six figures, 0.00825426 in the dated 2026-09-07 sample, and the rounding is display only.
- Can I convert USD to ISK on the same page?
- Yes. The Swap button in the row under the panel, beside Copy, reverses the pair without a reload and without losing the amount, which turns this into a US dollars to Icelandic krona converter at the same dated set. In the 2026-09-07 sample that direction read 1 USD = 121.15 ISK. Either currency menu also stays open, so the same amount goes to euros, korunas or any other currency the loaded set carries.
- Which currencies does the menu offer?
- Exactly the currencies in the dated set the page loaded, plus the euro at 1. The ECB daily file carries about thirty, the Icelandic krona among them. A currency the file does not carry is never estimated: the page says it will not convert it. A code retired by a redenomination is named rather than converted, so ROL and TRL are refused with the explanation instead of being treated as RON and TRY.
- Does the converter remember the last pair I used?
- It remembers a pair and an amount in one local storage key, but this page's setting wins over it: arriving here opens ISK to USD whatever you last converted on the main tool. The amount is left alone, since it is usually the figure you are still working on, and on a first visit the box holds 100. Start over at the top of the page clears what the tool saved.
- Is the amount I type sent anywhere?
- No. This site's own route fetches one public file from the ECB, the same rates for every visitor, and the conversion then runs in your browser against that file. Nothing about your amount or your pair reaches the ECB or any analytics event. The Copy button hands you the whole answer with its date, both euro legs, the note that a reference rate is not a bank or card rate, and the address of the ECB page, so a figure pasted into a spreadsheet keeps the date it belongs to.
Arithmetic at the European Central Bank reference rate for the date shown beside every answer, cross-converted through the euro. Reference rates are published once each working day for statistical use: they are not the rate a bank or a card will give you.