Coverage
979 rows, 1945-01-31 to 2026-07-31. 979 carry a figure.
official statistic
Peso-dollar rate, monthly average
What a US dollar cost in pesos, month by month since 1945, from BSP's own reference-rate table. It is the rate the archive's dollar-denominated feed prices convert at, and it is BSP's figure rather than the IMF's — the two disagree badly through the decontrol years and this archive does not splice sources together.
Current monthly Machine-retrieved PHP/USD, monthly average
01 · The figures
What this series says
Computed from the rows during the build, over live rows only — a withdrawn figure is one this site could not stand behind, and reprinting it as a record high would be republishing it under a different heading.
Latest
61.60
0.6%
2026-07. PHP/USD, monthly average.
Highest
61.60
2026-07
Lowest
2.00
1945-01
Range
59.60
Highest minus lowest, across every published row.
Coverage
100%
979 of 979 rows carry a figure.
Span
81y
1945-01-31 to 2026-07-31
Freshness budget
62d
The rule: 31 days for a monthly source, times 2 — 62 days. A budget at one cadence fires the moment a release is a day late, and a gate that fires on healthy data is one people learn to ignore.
Last read
2026-08-21
The last date somebody actually opened the source behind these rows.
02 · The shape of it
Every published row
Peso-dollar rate, monthly average
PHP/USD, monthly average
Reading it: the line breaks wherever the source published no figure, and each of those runs is shaded. The vertical axis is fitted to the data and both bounds are labelled; it does not start at zero, because ₱150 to ₱260 on a zero-based axis is a flat line and a fitted one is the same fact made legible.
03 · What is in it
Rows, blanks and columns
Which optional columns it carries
Beyond the period, the value, the source and the access date, which every row in this archive has. Counted from the rows, so a column that stops being filled stops being listed.
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first_seen— 979 rows. the date this archive first held a row for that key, set once. -
receipt_id— 979 rows. the content-addressed receipt proving which document it came from.
Freshness
The newest figure is 22 days old, inside its 62-day budget.
The rule: 31 days for a monthly source, times 2 — 62 days. A budget at one cadence fires the moment a release is a day late, and a gate that fires on healthy data is one people learn to ignore.
04 · Where it comes from
Whose survey, read how, out of which document
official statistic
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas — peso-dollar reference rate
Every row carries the exact page or document it was read from, and the date somebody opened it — not just the agency. Those URLs are in the download, one per row, because "Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas — peso-dollar reference rate" is not a citation anybody can follow.
How it was retrieved
A column of the BSP peso-dollar workbook. The sheet has one header row and four columns, so a column letter is unavoidable — and the defence is that the header must still be printed over it. "Average" and "End-of-Period" are adjacent, both peso-per-dollar, both plausible at a glance, and reading the wrong one produces a complete series that is quietly a different statistic.
| Field | Value | What guards it |
|---|---|---|
| Sheet | monthly | — |
| Column | D | — |
| Header | Average | What row 5 must print over that column, asserted before the letter is trusted. |
The documents behind these rows
1 document were read to build this series, each hashed on the exact bytes received. The newest 1 are below; the rest are on the provenance page . Download one, hash it, and either it matches or the publisher has reissued it.
| Document | Read on | Bytes | Rows | sha256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scripts/fetch-bsp-pesodollar.mjs | 2026-08-21 | 205,842 | 979 | 98c3184fc2abc7fd… |
07 · The tail
The most recent 12
a year of a monthly series. The whole thing is in the downloads below — this table is the end of it.
| Period | Value | Source read on |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07 | 61.60 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2026-06 | 61.25 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2026-05 | 61.44 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2026-04 | 60.29 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2026-03 | 59.41 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2026-02 | 58.28 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2026-01 | 59.16 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2025-12 | 58.85 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2025-11 | 58.91 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2025-10 | 58.30 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2025-09 | 57.25 | 2026-08-21 |
| 2025-08 | 57.25 | 2026-08-21 |
All of these rows cite: https://www.bsp.gov.ph/statistics/external/pesodollar.xlsx
08 · Download
Four files, free, with attribution
Every row carries its source, its URL and the date somebody actually opened it, and the attribution line is repeated on every row rather than in a header — because the unit of loss is the row, not the file.
| File | Format | Size | Rows | What is in it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| php-usd-average.csv | text/csv | 310 KB | 979 | Published rows only, one row per period. Retracted rows are excluded, so an average taken over this file is correct without filtering. Null values are the token NA. |
| full/php-usd-average.csv | text/csv | 327 KB | 979 | Every row this archive has ever held, including withdrawn ones, with a status column and the retraction date and reason. Use this to audit the archive, not to compute on. |
| php-usd-average.json | application/json | 409 KB | 979 | The same rows as the full CSV, as JSON, with the coverage summary and the licence. |
| php-usd-average.parquet | application/vnd.apache.parquet | 15 KB | 979 | The published rows with types: the numeric columns are doubles and a missing figure is a real null rather than the NA token a CSV has to write. |
Sizes: the real ones, from the same call that produced the bytes the endpoint serves. There is deliberately no Parquet of the full file — the withdrawn rows are the ones nobody may compute on without looking.
Or the whole archive at once
Every series stacked under one schema, typed, with real nulls. It is not this series — kept in its own block so nobody takes the whole archive by mistake.
09 · Related
What else bears on this
Each of these states its relation. A related list with no stated relation is a list of guesses, and the strongest ones here are facts about the source rather than editorial judgements.
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10 · Cite it
Please link back
Attribution is the only condition, and it is what keeps a figure traceable once it has been copied twice.
Plain text
Baboy PH state-of-the-industry archive, series "php-usd-average". CC BY 4.0. https://baboyph.com/data/php-usd-average
BibTeX
@misc{baboyph-php-usd-average,
title = {Peso-dollar rate, monthly average},
author = {{Baboy PH}},
howpublished = {\url{https://baboyph.com/data/php-usd-average}},
note = {PHP/USD, monthly average. CC BY 4.0.},
urldate = {2026-08-21},
} Straight at the data
https://baboyph.com/data/php-usd-average.csv
Licence: CC BY 4.0. The figures themselves are official statistics published by the agencies named above; what this archive adds is the retrieval, the provenance on every row, and the refusals.