CHF · Europe
Swiss Franc (CHF)
The franc is the market's safe haven. In periods of stress, money moves into it regardless of Swiss domestic conditions, which is why it can strengthen while the Swiss economy is doing nothing remarkable.
Reference reading
0.8197CHF per 1 USD
Read 10 Nov 2026, 15:30 UTC, source last published 10 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC, quoted against USD.
166 currencies in this reading
One CHF buys
- EUR
- 1.0888
- USD
- 1.22
- GBP
- 0.908503
- JPY
- 192.7807
- SEK
- 11.9699
Where the Swiss Franc circulates
That behaviour has a cost for anyone displaying Swiss prices: the same product can become materially more expensive abroad in a week without its domestic price changing at all.
- Domestic pricing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
- Safe-haven flows, which dominate the currency during risk-off periods.
- Invoicing for Swiss exports in pharmaceuticals, precision machinery and financial services.
How it is quoted, and what to watch
The franc's symbol is literally CHF, so no separate glyph is applied — the catalogue returns the code as the symbol in that case. Formatting with the CHF currency code produces the expected output in any locale.
Reading CHF from the API
Ask for CHF as the base and every quote in the response is re-expressed against it — the reading, the catalogue and the account balance all arrive together.
Crosses are the quotient of two published quotes, so a pair you need but we do not list is still one division away.
curl · re-quote the catalogue against this currency
curl -s "https://fiatagent.base44.app/api/v1/rates?base=CHF" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FIAT_AGENT_KEY"CHF questions, answered
Why does CHF strengthen in a crisis?
Because it is treated as a store of value: capital moves into it when investors want out of riskier currencies, pushing its price up on flows rather than on trade.
Should I use a franc symbol in my UI?
Use CHF or the CHF currency code. There is no widely recognised single-character franc glyph, and a made-up one confuses more readers than it helps.
Quote CHF without a subscription.
The open endpoint needs no key. A key opens with a 5,000-request signup bonus and reaches every stored reading by date.