Short answer: foreign Visa and Mastercard do work in Suriname, and Republic Bank's ATMs are the ones to look for — up to SRD 20,000 a day, against SRD 10,000 at DSB and Hakrinbank and SRD 4,000 at VCB. Every withdrawal costs SRD 17.60 in fees. Bring US dollars or euros in cash anyway, as a backstop and because a great deal of Paramaribo still runs on it. The local currency is the Surinamese dollar (SRD).
The currency, and what a fair rate looks like
Suriname uses the Surinamese dollar, written SRD. It is not a currency you will have in your wallet before you arrive and not one you will easily spend after you leave.
The most useful free tool for a visitor is the exchange-rate board on the front page of De Surinaamsche Bank's website. DSB publishes daily buying and selling rates for the US dollar and the euro against the SRD. On 17 August 2026, for instance, it showed USD at 37.26 buy and 38.02 sell, and EUR at 43.20 and 44.08.
Check that board before you change money anywhere. It gives you a reference point, and in a country whose currency has moved as much as this one has, knowing the bank rate is the difference between a fair exchange and an expensive one.
De Surinaamsche Bank (DSB)
De Surinaamsche Bank is a Surinamese commercial bank offering payment accounts, card services, internet banking and a mobile app. It publishes daily buying and selling rates for the US dollar and the euro against the Surinamese dollar on its website.
What the ATM limits actually are
Finabank publishes the clearest official statement about cash access we have found anywhere in Suriname. On its ATM page, checked 21 August 2026, it states:
- SRD 3,000 per day at any ATM in Suriname
- USD 300 or EUR 500 per day in foreign currency from its own Finamatic machines, located inside Finabank offices
- its cards also work on the national Cashpnt ATM network
At the rates above, SRD 3,000 is roughly USD 80. Read that limit carefully, though, because it is Finabank's ceiling for Finabank's own cardholders — it is not the number that applies to the card in your wallet. The section below has that one.
Finabank's main office is at Dr. Sophie Redmondstraat 59–61 in central Paramaribo, open Monday to Friday 08:00–15:00, with five other branches around the country.
Finabank
Finabank is a Surinamese commercial bank with its main office at Dr. Sophie Redmondstraat 59-61 in central Paramaribo and five further branches around the country. It operates Finamatic ATMs at its branches and its cards work on the national Cashpnt ATM network.
Which ATM takes a foreign card
When this page first went up it said we could not answer the question every traveller asks. We can now.
Explore Suriname's ATM guide, read on 21 August 2026, states that Republic Bank's machines take both international Visa and Mastercard, and recommends them as the first choice for a foreign card. The daily ceilings it lists:
| Bank | Daily limit | Foreign cards |
|---|---|---|
| Republic Bank | SRD 20,000 | Visa and Mastercard — the recommended choice |
| DSB | SRD 10,000 | Mastercard and most foreign cards |
| Hakrinbank | SRD 10,000 | not stated |
| VCB | SRD 4,000, max SRD 2,000 per transaction | not stated |
| Cashpnt | set by your own bank | local cards and Mastercard; foreign-card acceptance varies from machine to machine |
Cashpnt is the largest network in the country — a joint venture of DSB, Finabank, GODO, Hakrinbank, the Postspaarbank and VCB — which makes its machines the ones you are most likely to walk past and the ones least likely to behave predictably with a foreign card. If a Cashpnt machine refuses your card, that is not necessarily your bank. Find a Republic Bank ATM and try again there.
Two caveats survive. This comes from a travel publication rather than from any bank's own page — no Surinamese bank publishes its foreign-card rules — so treat it as good guidance rather than a guarantee. And still arrive with several days of US dollars or euros in cash, because the cost of being wrong about a card in a country you cannot easily wire money into is high.
Republic Bank Suriname
Suriname arm of the Caribbean Republic Bank group, running the country’s largest commercial ATM network — and the network most likely to accept foreign Visa and Mastercard.
What a withdrawal costs
Since 1 August 2026 a cash withdrawal costs SRD 17.60 per transaction, including VAT, at any BNETS, Cashpnt or bank ATM in Suriname. A balance enquiry costs SRD 1.10. Card payments in shops and online transfers are free.
It is a flat fee, not a percentage, so the arithmetic favours fewer and larger withdrawals — one more reason the SRD 20,000 ceiling at Republic Bank matters more than it first looks.
Cash, cards and where each one works
Card acceptance in Paramaribo is uneven and we do not have a verified source describing its shape, so we are not going to publish a list of what takes cards. What we can say from the entity records on this site is that the businesses we could verify publish phone numbers and WhatsApp far more often than they publish payment terms, which tells you something about how transactions actually happen here.
Practical consequence: carry small SRD notes. Warungs, market stalls, minibuses and boat crossings are cash operations.
Bank hours
Finabank's branches open Monday to Friday 08:00–15:00 and close at weekends. That is a narrow window, and it is typical. Whatever you need to do at a counter, do it on a weekday morning.
DSB does not publish a head-office address we could verify — its own contact page returns a 404, and the addresses circulating in third-party directories are not confirmed by any official page — so we do not print one. Its internet banking runs at my.dsb.sr, its main line is (+597) 471100, and its SWIFT/BIC is SURBSRPA.
What is missing from this page
For honesty's sake, here is what no source we could verify would tell us: individual ATM street locations, whether there are ATMs at Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, whether bank counters change foreign cash for non-customers, and weekend ATM availability. All of those are exactly the questions a traveller has, and all of them are currently unanswered here rather than guessed at.
One item has come off that list, and one figure on it has moved. The foreign-card question is answered above. And the SRD 11 withdrawal fee that circulated earlier this year has been superseded — it has been SRD 17.60 since 1 August 2026. If you find a fee quoted anywhere else, check the date on the page before you trust it.
All figures on this page were checked on 21 August 2026 and are a snapshot of that date.