Getting from Johan Adolf Pengel Airport to Paramaribo
45 km, about an hour, and no metered taxis. Transfer prices we could verify, the car rental desks, and what to do about a SIM and cash on arrival.
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Money
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.
Best for changing money, checking the SRD rate.
De Surinaamsche Bank is one of the country's main commercial banks, reachable on (+597) 471100, with internet banking at my.dsb.sr and a mobile app. Its SWIFT/BIC code is SURBSRPA.
The reason a visitor should bookmark dsb.sr is the exchange-rate board on its front page. It publishes daily buying and selling rates for the US dollar and the euro against the Surinamese dollar: on 17 August 2026, for example, USD at 37.26 buy and 38.02 sell, EUR at 43.20 and 44.08. That gives you a reference for what a fair rate looks like before you change cash anywhere else, which is a genuinely useful thing to have in a country where the currency has moved a great deal.
We do not print a head office address. The bank's own contact page returns a 404, and the addresses circulating in third-party directories are not confirmed by any official page. Branch locations, ATM locations, opening hours and whether counters change cash for non-customers are all similarly unverified.
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How much does a week in Suriname cost?
Three honest budgets built only from prices we could read at their source, plus a clear list of the costs nobody in Suriname publishes.
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Money, ATMs and paying in Paramaribo
The Surinamese dollar, what a fair exchange rate looks like, which ATMs actually take a foreign Visa or Mastercard, and what every withdrawal now costs.
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Banks and ATMs in Suriname compared: which take a foreign card, and what it costs
Republic Bank, DSB, Hakrinbank, VCB, Finabank and the Cashpnt network side by side: daily limits, foreign-card acceptance, fees and hours, with the exchange rate on the day this was checked.
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Sources and verification
Checked · 2 named sources
Information on this page is sourced from De Surinaamsche Bank N.V., De Surinaamsche Bank.
- De Surinaamsche Bank N.V. · address, existence · read 8 September 2026
- De Surinaamsche Bank · currency, existence, phone, website · read 21 August 2026
Other money
See allFinabank
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.
Republic Bank Suriname
Republic Bank Suriname: the country's largest commercial ATM network and the one most likely to accept foreign Visa and Mastercard; ATMs run around the clock, branch hours are not published on republicbanksr.com.
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