Money in Uzbekistan

The page is still not finished.. Everything here is correct (last update: December 2008), but it has not a lot of information yet. Although the ATM part is unique for those who need it.

Official currency in Uzbekistan is the Uzbek sum. You may always find the current official exchange rate of sum to main world currencies on every page of our site, in the left bottom part, under the weather informer.

Exchange from a foreing currency to Uzbek sum (US Dollar, UK Pound, Euro, Japan Yen) is very easy in all Uzbekistan cities, especially USD and Euros. Other currencies are not allowed to exchange legally!! Even currencies of neigbour countries (like Kazakhstan tenge, Kyrgystan som, Turkmen manat and Russian rouble) may not be exchanged to/from Uzbek sum.

There are a lot of currency exhange offices (they are legal and have the same exchange rate).

ATM offices in Uzbekistan
To cash money from Visa or Master card in Uzbekistan is easy only in Tashkent. ATM in other cities works rarely. Even in Tashkent you may spend some time before finding a working ATM.
Good places to cash the money are big 4 and 5 stars hotels.
Here is the list of places where ATM exists in Uzbekistan: