How Many Baht To The Pound?

StreetCowboy · February 28, 2012

This is probably most useful for those of us budgeting for sin sod; or planning on taking our wealth overseas.

Does anyone know, from memory (supplemented, if necessary, by prodigious mental arithmetic), how many baht to the pound?

SC

PattayaParent · February 28, 2012

Why don't you just look at a forex website?

Or one of the Thai bank websites?

http://www.bot.or.th/english/statistics/financialmarkets/exchangerate/_layouts/Application/ExchangeRate/ExchangeRate.aspx

Edited February 28, 2012 by PattayaParent

Tywais · February 28, 2012

Or Thaivisa Baht site

Eff1n2ret · February 28, 2012

I know.

evadgib · February 28, 2012

It's hovered around 46-49 since 2008. As a broad figure use 50 as a rough guide.

StreetCowboy · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

EDIT: Order changed, to avoid inferred boasting

Edited February 28, 2012 by StreetCowboy

billd766 · February 28, 2012

I know.

I reckoned it was about thirty, but I had to look it up.

SC

Here is the KBank rates for TT for 20012 so far.

For somw reason it went down very quickly last Thursday but it is on its way back up again.

Forex 2012 v1.xls

F1fanatic · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

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Please don't ever do that again - you frightened the life out of me!!

I work on the basis of 47-48 per pound, and use 50 as my easy comparison.

Just looked it up and it is around 48.

barrybankruad · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

EDIT: Order changed, to avoid inferred boasting

Please don't ever do that again - you frightened the life out of me!!

I work on the basis of 47-48 per pound, and use 50 as my easy comparison.

Just looked it up and it is around 48.

Whatever it is, it' never enough.

Semper · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

EDIT: Order changed, to avoid inferred boasting

How much would it be in Kg, as most countries use the metric system?

StreetCowboy · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

EDIT: Order changed, to avoid inferred boasting

How much would it be in Kg, as most countries use the metric system?

I'll take that as a no, then.

As I say, I had to look it up, and its about 15.2 g.

As far as I can tell, its only used for measuring sin sod.

SC

dean999 · February 28, 2012

I like to use this one. It's a little higher than what the banks will give you but it has a graph that shows what the currency has been doing over 120 days.

http://www.x-rates.com/d/THB/GBP/graph120.html

xandreu · February 28, 2012

I still use my UK bank account and to avoid the charges of continuously withdrawing money, I always withdraw as much as it will let me in one go. The daily limit for withdrawal is 300GBP and just a couple of months ago I was able to withdraw 14500Baht at a time, but lately I've noticed that I can now only withdraw 14000Baht, so either the charges have gone up or the exchange rate has got worse.

I think most people use the 50B to the pound benchmark.

Semper · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

EDIT: Order changed, to avoid inferred boasting

How much would it be in Kg, as most countries use the metric system?

I'll take that as a no, then.

As I say, I had to look it up, and its about 15.2 g.

As far as I can tell, its only used for measuring sin sod.

SC

bendix · February 28, 2012

I still use my UK bank account and to avoid the charges of continuously withdrawing money, I always withdraw as much as it will let me in one go. The daily limit for withdrawal is 300GBP and just a couple of months ago I was able to withdraw 14500Baht at a time, but lately I've noticed that I can now only withdraw 14000Baht, so either the charges have gone up or the exchange rate has got worse.

I think most people use the 50B to the pound benchmark.

Or, in your case, 13000

marstons · February 28, 2012

if you have windows 7 right click on desk top go to gadgets and add currency. stays on your desktop, updates regulary through the day. just set up the curencies you want. if going away in the furure i use 2.

marstons · February 28, 2012

I still use my UK bank account and to avoid the charges of continuously withdrawing money, I always withdraw as much as it will let me in one go. The daily limit for withdrawal is 300GBP and just a couple of months ago I was able to withdraw 14500Baht at a time, but lately I've noticed that I can now only withdraw 14000Baht, so either the charges have gone up or the exchange rate has got worse.

I think most people use the 50B to the pound benchmark.

why not just trasfer into a thai bank account then you can bring over £7000 for £17 fee, thats HSBC. here in 2-3 days normally. 336,000 baht

xandreu · February 28, 2012

I still use my UK bank account and to avoid the charges of continuously withdrawing money, I always withdraw as much as it will let me in one go. The daily limit for withdrawal is 300GBP and just a couple of months ago I was able to withdraw 14500Baht at a time, but lately I've noticed that I can now only withdraw 14000Baht, so either the charges have gone up or the exchange rate has got worse.

I think most people use the 50B to the pound benchmark.

why not just trasfer into a thai bank account then you can bring over £7000 for £17 fee, thats HSBC. here in 2-3 days normally. 336,000 baht

I plan to. I have a Thai account that I opened in Chiang Mai but since moving down to Bangkok, it charges me for withdrawals (and even deposits) so once it emptied, I stopped using it. I have tried to open an account here a couple of times but they wanted a work permit which I don't have. I know it's possible to open an account without one I just haven't had the time to trawl around looking for a branch that will let me yet.

nontabury · February 28, 2012

I'm sure SC already knows the answer, probably telling his girlfriend it's now 30 baht -gbp, giving him an excuse for not having

the money for sin sod.

Moonrakers · February 28, 2012

48-ish. But then I transfer money (almost) weekly

StreetCowboy · February 28, 2012

So if you reckon that a pound was originally a pound of silver sterlings, and a baht similarly, mutatis mutandis, then since time immemorial we could conclude that the pound sterling had appreciated about 67% against the Thai baht.

So Effin2Ret said he did, Semper implied he didn't; not a big sample so far

SC

Kan Win · February 28, 2012

1 Baht is equal to 540 Pounds in Stering.

Win on a Gold rush

theblether · February 28, 2012

I gave my father -in-law one baht sin sot and he kicked my head in.........

Edited February 28, 2012 by theblether

exeter · February 28, 2012

I know.

I reckoned it was about thirty, but I had to look it up.

SC

Here is the KBank rates for TT for 20012 so far.

For somw reason it went down very quickly last Thursday but it is on its way back up again.

Forex 2012 v1.xls

There was some bad financial news in the UK, revenues were down from taxes I think which threw off the debt reduction figures, not a big deal but you how some of these pratts in the market have to justify their jobs by waving there hands in the air and crying woe woe!

They have got over the false scare now so maybe the cricket bat round the head did the trick!

exeter · February 28, 2012

I know.

I had to look it up, but I reckon its just shy of thirty

SC

EDIT: Order changed, to avoid inferred boasting

How much would it be in Kg, as most countries use the metric system?

About 2 miles.

exeter · February 28, 2012

I still use my UK bank account and to avoid the charges of continuously withdrawing money, I always withdraw as much as it will let me in one go. The daily limit for withdrawal is 300GBP and just a couple of months ago I was able to withdraw 14500Baht at a time, but lately I've noticed that I can now only withdraw 14000Baht, so either the charges have gone up or the exchange rate has got worse.

I think most people use the 50B to the pound benchmark.

why not just trasfer into a thai bank account then you can bring over £7000 for £17 fee, thats HSBC. here in 2-3 days normally. 336,000 baht

You could also bring a cheque and pay just 500bts, but it takes a month to clear.

pattayadingo · February 28, 2012

http://www.xe.com/uc...From=GBP&To=THB

Charts going back weeks to years and my favourite site for fx rates. Currently showing 48.

Edited February 28, 2012 by pattayadingo

Ricardo · February 29, 2012

It's hovered around 46-49 since 2008. As a broad figure use 50 as a rough guide.

Think of a B1,000-note as being GBP 20, and B500 as a tenner, OK it's slightly too-much, but gives a rough idea !

billd766 · February 29, 2012

I like to use this one. It's a little higher than what the banks will give you but it has a graph that shows what the currency has been doing over 120 days.

http://www.x-rates.c...P/graph120.html

I prefer the actual bank rate as it is a more correct rate unless you are transferring a very large quantity at a time.

If you wish I can post 3 graphs going back to 2000 but when I look at the rates then I get sad and nostalgic.