Cash Rate

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, via FRED

US federal funds effective rate

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3.63%

+0.01 pp last change (13 Jul 2026)

As of 15 Sep 2026 | Daily effective (chart uses monthly averages from 1954)

Mean
4.59%
Median
4.25%
Min
0.05% 1 Apr 2020
Max
19.10% 1 Jun 1981
DateRate
15 Sep 20263.63
1 Aug 20263.63
1 Jul 20263.63
1 Jun 20263.63
1 May 20263.63
1 Apr 20263.64
1 Mar 20263.64
1 Feb 20263.64
1 Jan 20263.64
1 Dec 20253.72
1 Nov 20253.88
1 Oct 20254.09
1 Sep 20254.22
1 Aug 20254.33
1 Jul 20254.33
1 Jun 20254.33
1 May 20254.33
1 Apr 20254.33
1 Mar 20254.33
1 Feb 20254.33
1 Jan 20254.33
1 Dec 20244.48
1 Nov 20244.64
1 Oct 20244.83

About fed funds

Effective federal funds rate — volume-weighted overnight trades (FRED DFF; source: Federal Reserve). Current: 3.63% on 15 Sep 2026. Long history uses monthly FEDFUNDS; the headline is the latest daily print.

From 1 Jul 1954 to 15 Sep 2026 (867 months): mean 4.59%, median 4.25%; low 0.05% (1 Apr 2020), high 19.10% (1 Jun 1981). Not a mortgage, CD, or prime rate.

Source: FRED series DFF (daily effective) and FEDFUNDS (monthly). Licence: FRED data terms: free use in publications and websites with attribution (terms). Files: data/raw/fred-dff.csv + data/raw/fred-fedfunds.csv.

Reading this series

The effective federal funds rate is the volume-weighted average of overnight unsecured trades between depository institutions, published by the Federal Reserve and republished here from FRED. The headline uses the daily series DFF; the long history and the summary statistics use the monthly series FEDFUNDS, which begins in 1954. The Federal Open Market Committee sets a target range, but the effective rate is a market outcome inside that range, so it can differ slightly from the target and from day to day.

Because it is a market average rather than a stepped policy setting, the daily line is jagged; the chart here uses month-end points for the long run. Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line for the direction of the last change. Mean, median, low and high describe the observations in this build, not an official summary. Chart and Table show the same series two ways, the range buttons shorten the window, and Explore loads zoom and pan only when requested. Fed funds is not a mortgage, CD or prime rate.

About this desk

Germany has no separate policy rate in this build. The Germany desk therefore leads with the ECB deposit facility rate, the euro-area policy rate set by the ECB Governing Council, then €STR, the euro overnight market benchmark. UK, US and other official rates follow. Germany is in the euro area, so its monetary policy is set in Frankfurt; inventing a Bundesbank policy series would misrepresent the data, and the desk does not do that.

France and Italy share the same two ECB series, and the /ea/ desk is their natural home. The figures are read from the ECB Data Portal and republished with attribution under the ESCB statistics reuse policy. Every desk shows the same set in a different order, so switching desks changes the menu, not the numbers. The build ingests no German retail rate series, so none is shown. This is not financial advice.