This data was sourced directly from real UK currency suppliers and shows the actual price of exchanging Sri Lankan rupees to British pounds on any given day.
Over the past 30 days, the Sri Lankan rupee buy back rate has increased by 3.81% against the British pound from 0.002198 on the 3rd September to 0.002282 yesterday. This means Sri Lankan rupees are worth more today compared to one month ago. If you were exchanging 30,000 LKR, you would get approximately £68.45 today which is £2.51 more than you would have got on the 3rd September.
You can compare today's latest buy back rates and sell Sri Lankan rupees on our Sri Lankan rupee buy back page.
How we display buy back rates
You might notice the Sri Lankan rupee rates shown here are different to the Sri Lankan rupee 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 LKR / GBP exchange rate, we show the LKR rate relative to the pound so a rate of 0.002282 literally means 1 LKR = 0.002282 GBP.
However, UK currency suppliers choose to show this rate in terms of the amount of Sri Lankan rupees you would need to exchange to receive 1 GBP, so (1 /) 0.002282 becomes 438.3. Or put another way, 438.3 LKR = 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 Sri Lankan rupee / British pound exchange rate over the past 7 years.
| Year | Open | Close | Low | High | Annual Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.003279 | -- | 0.002049 | 0.003726 | -- |
| 2021 | 0.003649 | 0.003279 | 0.003187 | 0.003702 | 11.30% |
| 2020 | 0.004039 | 0.003649 | 0.003649 | 0.004464 | 10.68% |
| 2019 | 0.004099 | 0.004039 | 0.003968 | 0.004503 | 1.47% |
| 2018 | 0.004762 | 0.004082 | 0.004082 | 0.004762 | 16.66% |
| 2017 | 0.004946 | 0.004762 | 0.004343 | 0.005236 | 3.87% |
| 2016 | 0.004295 | 0.005012 | 0.004294 | 0.005142 | -14.30% |
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