This data was sourced directly from real UK currency suppliers and shows the actual price of exchanging Saudi riyals to British pounds on any given day.
Over the past 30 days, the Saudi riyal buy back rate has decreased by 2.09% against the British pound from 0.2166 on the 19th February to 0.2121 yesterday. This means Saudi riyals are worth less today compared to one month ago. If you were exchanging 600 SAR, you would get approximately £127.23 today which is £2.72 less than you would have got on the 19th February.
You can compare today's latest buy back rates and sell Saudi riyals on our Saudi riyal buy back page.
How we display buy back rates
You might notice the Saudi riyal rates shown here are different to the Saudi riyal rates offered by currency suppliers on our comparison pages. The rates are actually the same but are just presented in different ways. When we talk about the SAR / GBP exchange rate, we show the SAR rate relative to the pound so a rate of 0.2121 literally means 1 SAR = 0.2121 GBP.
However, UK currency suppliers choose to show this rate in terms of the amount of Saudi riyals you would need to exchange to receive 1 GBP, so (1 /) 0.2121 becomes 4.716. Or put another way, 4.716 SAR = 1 GBP. The two rates are interchangeable but currency suppliers prefer to show the second rate which they call the buy back rate.
A snapshot of the Saudi riyal / British pound exchange rate over the past 8 years.
| Year | Open | Close | Low | High | Annual Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.2156 | -- | 0.2098 | 0.2204 | -- |
| 2022 | 0.1931 | 0.2156 | 0.1907 | 0.2454 | -10.44% |
| 2021 | 0.1909 | 0.1932 | 0.1833 | 0.1980 | -1.15% |
| 2020 | 0.1954 | 0.1906 | 0.1906 | 0.2264 | 2.50% |
| 2019 | 0.2040 | 0.1953 | 0.1922 | 0.2153 | 4.50% |
| 2018 | 0.1923 | 0.2038 | 0.1807 | 0.2079 | -5.64% |
| 2017 | 0.2097 | 0.1923 | 0.1899 | 0.2154 | 9.02% |
| 2016 | 0.1751 | 0.2099 | 0.1725 | 0.2134 | -16.60% |
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