The official peso rate against the real with the time it was taken, a two-way converter and the amounts a Buenos Aires trip needs.
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The peso is the odd one out on this list, for two reasons. The first is inflation: Argentina has run price increases measured in tens of percent a year, and a currency losing value that fast makes any quote perishable — a rate written down last month is not slightly out of date, it is wrong. The second is that the country has spent much of the last decade with more than one exchange rate at once. Alongside the official rate there have been parallel and financial rates, born of capital controls, trading far from it, and a tourist rate for card purchases by foreigners. Controls have been loosened and tightened repeatedly since 2019, and each change redraws which rate applies to whom. The value here is the official one.
The nominal collapse behind that is easier to see in the currency history than in any chart. Argentina has replaced its currency five times since 1970 and struck thirteen zeros from it: the peso ley, the peso argentino, the austral, the convertible peso of 1992 and the peso in use today. The convertibility decade, when one peso was one dollar by law, ended in the 2001 crisis with a default, the corralito freezing bank deposits and a devaluation that wiped out savings.
For a Brazilian this page usually means a trip: Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Mendoza, or a border crossing from Uruguaiana. Two practical points. First, what a counter in Argentina gives you may not be this rate at all, and the rules for foreigners paying by card have changed several times — check what applies before travelling, not after. Second, the caveat that applies to every currency here applies doubly to this one: this is a market reference, not a price. Add the spread of whoever converts your money and the IOF on the Brazilian side.
From the market feed for the peso against the real, saved here by a job that runs every 30 minutes, with the date and time of the quote printed under the value. The refresh button fetches the current one live from your browser. With this currency, look at that timestamp before trusting the number.
Not necessarily, and that is the honest answer. This is the official reference. What a bureau, a bank or a card operator gives you includes their spread, and Argentina has had different rates coexisting for years, with rules for foreign cardholders that changed repeatedly. Treat this as the yardstick to measure an offer against, not the price you will be charged.
Because capital controls created them. When buying dollars at the official rate is restricted, parallel and financial markets appear where the same dollar trades at another price, and the gap becomes a national indicator in itself. Special rates for tourists have been added and removed by decree more than once.
Because the unit has not been rebased since 1992 while prices kept climbing. That number does not mean the Argentine economy is a fraction of the Brazilian one — it is only the size of the unit. It is also why the table here starts at a hundred pesos: converting a single peso produces a row of zeros.
That depends on rules that change, so the useful answer is a method rather than a recommendation. Before travelling, check what rate applies to foreign card purchases at that moment, ask what rate your bank closes for cash, and compare both against the reference here. Splitting between more than one form of payment is what protects you.
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