Currency and formatting
- Currency
- Cuban Peso (CUP)
- Symbol
- $ — placed before the amount
- Decimal places
- 2
- Formatted example
- $123,456.78
- Thousands separator
- ,
- Decimal separator
- .
- Digit grouping
- threes (3)
- Live rate
- No central-bank source publishes CUP yet
Tax
- 2% — wholesale
Payment methods in Cuba
Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.
- 01 transfermovil
- 02 enzona
- 03 cash on delivery
Card schemes that work domestically: visa, mastercard. 3-D Secure is not standard; strong customer authentication is not legally mandated.
Locale
- Primary
- es-CU
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Direction
- left-to-right
- Date format
- DD/MM/YYYY
- Measurement
- metric
- GDPR applies
- no
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +53
- Mobile format
- +53 XXXX XXXX
- Digits
- 8
Cuba: common questions
What currency does Cuba use?
Cuba uses the Cuban Peso (CUP), symbol $. It uses 2 decimal places, formatted as $123,456.78.
How many decimal places does CUP have?
CUP has 2 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.
What is the Sales Tax rate in Cuba?
The standard Sales Tax rate in Cuba is 10.00%. Prices are displayed tax-inclusive.
What payment methods are used in Cuba?
The methods that matter in Cuba, in rough order of use: transfermovil, enzona, cash on delivery.
What is the dialling code for Cuba?
Cuba's country calling code is +53. Mobile numbers are formatted +53 XXXX XXXX (8 digits after the country code).
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