Lari converter

Prices in your money

What things cost, in USD

Typical Tbilisi prices from our money guide, checked in September 2026 and converted at the official rate. The tourist streets (Shardeni, Aghmashenebeli, the Old Town lanes) charge roughly half again what the same dish costs two streets away.

For a full trip total by days and travel style, use the trip budget calculator.

The official rate and the rate you get

The number in the box is the National Bank of Georgia's official rate for the day. It is a reference: nobody hands you lari at exactly that price. An exchange office buys your currency a little below it and sells a little above it, and your card uses its network's rate plus whatever your bank adds. The tool shows both, so you can see the gap before you pay it.

For dollars and euros the gap at a good window is tiny. We read Rico Credit's board on 1 October 2026, next to that morning's official rates, and it bought dollars at 2.6030 against the National Bank's 2.6047: 100 dollars bought 260.30 GEL instead of 260.47. Pounds and Swiss francs cost about 1 percent. Everything else on the board lost 3.5 to 8.7 percent, which is why we tell people to arrive with dollars, euros or a card rather than their home currency.

At the board itself, read the buy column: you are selling your currency, so the office's buy rate is yours, and "no commission" means nothing because the fee is inside the rate. Rico Credit is a chain with branches across Tbilisi and the other cities and a fair default; skip the desks in the airport arrivals hall, whose rates are consistently worse than in town. Our money guide has the fee-free ATMs and how much cash to carry.

Where each number comes from

The official rates are fetched from the National Bank when the site is built and baked into the page, so the converter works offline once loaded and never sends what you type anywhere. The card and window lines are estimates built on the figures below, and say so.