Currency and formatting
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Symbol
- € — placed after the amount
- Decimal places
- 2
- Formatted example
- 123.456,78 €
- Thousands separator
- .
- Decimal separator
- ,
- Digit grouping
- threes (3)
- Live rate
- 1 USD = 0.872067672451 EUR (ecb, 2026-07-16)
Tax
Vatican City has no single national consumption tax that applies at a checkout. We report this as a null rather than inventing a rate.
Payment methods in Vatican City
Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.
- 01 card
- 02 apple pay
- 03 google pay
- 04 paypal
Card schemes that work domestically: visa, mastercard, amex. 3-D Secure is standard practice; strong customer authentication is not legally mandated.
Locale
- Primary
- it-VA
- Official languages
- Italian
- Direction
- left-to-right
- Date format
- DD/MM/YYYY
- Measurement
- metric
- GDPR applies
- no
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +39
- Mobile format
- +39 3XX XXX XXXX
- Digits
- 10
Vatican City: common questions
What currency does Vatican City use?
Vatican City uses the Euro (EUR), symbol €. It uses 2 decimal places, formatted as 123.456,78 €.
How many decimal places does EUR have?
EUR has 2 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.
Is there sales tax in Vatican City?
Vatican City has no single national consumption-tax rate that applies to a checkout.
What payment methods are used in Vatican City?
The methods that matter in Vatican City, in rough order of use: card, apple pay, google pay, paypal.
What is the dialling code for Vatican City?
Vatican City's country calling code is +39. Mobile numbers are formatted +39 3XX XXX XXXX (10 digits after the country code).
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