Dutch Money Then and Now: Guilders and Euros
See what an amount in Dutch guilders or euros from any year since 1900 is worth today, with the Dutch price index of Statistics Netherlands.
Enter an amount and a year from 1900 to see what it is worth now, measured with the Dutch price index of Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
Please note: The calculation uses the consumer price index (CPI) of Statistics Netherlands (CBS): how the prices of what Dutch households buy changed on average. For a single product it can be different. Before 1996 the series is an approximation that CBS linked from older series.
How it works
What are 100 Dutch guilders from 1985 worth today? Or a salary from 1970? Enter an amount and a year to see roughly what you would need for it now, measured with the price index of Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
We use the consumer price index (CPI) of Statistics Netherlands (CBS), which measures how the prices of what Dutch households buy change on average. CBS has a continuous yearly series from 1900; for now we use the newest month. The amount at the time times the index now, divided by the index then, is the amount in money of today.
Guilders are first converted to euros at the fixed rate of 1999: 2.20371 guilders to 1 euro. So you can also compare an amount from before 2002 with today.
Frequently asked questions
Why not simply divide by 2.20371?
That gives the amount in euros of that time. Prices have gone up since the euro arrived, and before that too. That is why 100 guilders from 1985 are worth more than 45 euros today.
Is this right for every product?
No, it is the average of everything Dutch households buy. Housing, energy or electronics may have become dearer much faster or slower.
About the data
Dutch consumer price index
How much more everything we buy costs on average, per month. We use it to convert prices of then into today's money.
- Price index per month
- through August 2026 (provisional)
- data.datasets.consumer-prices.tables.cpi_year_1900
- through 2025
- Fetched by us
- 9 October 2026, every day
- Made by
- CBS
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
For the time before December 2009 we convert the older CBS series to the same base (2025=100). View the source. (opens in a new tab)
Sources and checks
Sources
- Consumentenprijzen; prijsindex 1900=100 | CBS (opens in a new tab)
- Consumentenprijzen; CPI 2025=100, index en mutaties | CBS (opens in a new tab)
- Verordening (EG) nr. 2866/98 betreffende de omrekeningskoersen tussen de euro en de munteenheden van de lidstaten | EUR-Lex (opens in a new tab)
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