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US dollar street rate in Kano, Nigeria

As of 2026-10-27, the street rate for the US dollar in Nigeria is 1,358 NGN per USD according to the EMpulse Street FX Index; the boards of exchangers in Kano are being added.

Rates are NGN per 1 US dollar (USDT counted as 1 USD). The city median comes from the public boards of exchangers in Kano, shown as a client sees them: buy — you buy dollars, sell — you sell dollars; a board older than 3 days is not shown. The country-wide figure is the EMpulse Street FX Index with the 24-hour delay of the public pages.

Exchangers in Kano

No exchangers' boards are listed for Kano yet. The page fills on its own as public boards of the city enter the index; all cities.

Run an exchange office in this city? Find your card in the table and claim it: a badge, your own rates, a widget for your site and alerts when the city median moves. All exchangers.

How it is computed

EMpulse Street FX Index: daily street exchange rates of emerging-market currencies against the US dollar (USDT) — the rate people actually pay, not the official one — built from transaction-based market data and quotes from independent public market sources, with a confidence class and the number of sources on every figure.

The index of a day is one number: when both components publish the same day, their mean weighted by confidence; outlier days are kept but excluded from averages and changes; the current day is revised until 00:00 UTC. Full rules, fields and revision policy: methodology (PDF) · accuracy.

Questions

What is the dollar rate in Kano today?
The boards of exchangers in Kano are being added; the country-wide NGN index is published at https://empulse.ai/rates/NGN.
Where can I exchange dollars in Kano?
The table on this page lists exchange offices in Kano whose public boards the index reads, with their latest buy and sell rates; verified ones carry a badge and publish their own rates. Check the rate on the spot before exchanging.
What is a street rate and how is it different from the official rate?
The street rate is the rate at which people actually buy and sell dollars (USDT) in Nigeria, on the open market, outside the official or interbank quote. Where the official rate is managed or lagging, the gap between the two is the street premium.
Where does the NGN street rate data come from?
The EMpulse Street FX Index combines transaction-based market data with quotes from independent public market sources, weighted by the reliability each source has earned. Every day carries the number of sources and a confidence class (high, medium or limited); the methodology is public at https://empulse.ai/methodology.

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