Central Bank Exchange Rate API

Official central bank exchange rates via one API: 116 central banks including the US Federal Reserve, ECB, Bank of England, People's Bank of China, and Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), with history back to 1999. The published rates required for tax, customs, audits, and compliant invoicing.

Why official rates, not market rates?

Live mid-market rates are right for converters and price displays — that's what our core rates API serves. But tax filings, customs declarations, audits, statutory accounts, and invoicing rules in many countries don't ask what the market said: they require the official rate published by the central bank for a given date. That number is fixed, citable, and never changes after publication.

This API serves exactly those published tables — each response carries the bank's own publication date (rate_date), and anything computed rather than printed by the bank is explicitly flagged.

Covered central banks

Covered — click a country for its bank's rates API. The euro area links to the ECB reference rates.

Live coverage — this table is generated from the same database the API serves, so it always matches /api/v1/central-banks:

Central bank	Country	Code	Currencies	History from	Latest rates
Europe 21
Banca d'Italia	Italy	bdi	150	January 2016	2026-09-10
Bank of Albania	Albania	boa	20	August 2026	2026-09-10
Bank of England	United Kingdom	boe	23	January 2016	2026-09-09
Bank of Russia	Russia	cbr	53	January 2016	2026-09-11
Bulgarian National Bank	Bulgaria	bnb	29	January 2016	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	cbbh	17	January 2016	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Iceland	Iceland	cbi	10	January 2016	2026-09-10
Czech National Bank	Czech Republic	cnb	30	January 2016	2026-09-10
Danmarks Nationalbank	Denmark	dnb	30	January 2016	2026-09-10
European Central Bank	Eurozone	ecb	29	January 1999	2026-09-10
Magyar Nemzeti Bank	Hungary	mnb	32	January 2016	2026-09-10
Narodowy Bank Polski	Poland	nbp	32	January 2016	2026-09-10
National Bank of Moldova	Moldova	nbm	40	January 1994	2026-09-10
National Bank of North Macedonia	North Macedonia	nbrm	31	January 1993	2026-09-10
National Bank of Romania	Romania	bnr	37	January 2005	2026-09-10
National Bank of Serbia	Serbia	nbs	35	January 2016	2026-09-10
National Bank of the Republic of Belarus	Belarus	nbrb	30	July 2016	2026-09-10
National Bank of Ukraine	Ukraine	nbu	45	September 1996	2026-09-10
Norges Bank	Norway	norges	37	January 2016	2026-09-10
Sveriges Riksbank	Sweden	riksbank	29	January 2016	2026-09-10
Swiss National Bank	Switzerland	snb	26	January 1914	2026-08-31
North America 3
Banco de México	Mexico	banxico	4	January 1993	2026-09-09
Bank of Canada	Canada	boc	24	January 2017	2026-09-09
US Federal Reserve (H.10)	United States	fed	22	January 2016	2026-09-04
Latin America & Caribbean 18
Banco Central de Bolivia	Bolivia	bcbol	21	January 2016	2026-09-10
Banco Central de Costa Rica	Costa Rica	bccr	2	December 1999	2026-09-10
Banco Central de Honduras	Honduras	bch	1	February 2019	2026-09-10
Banco Central de la República Dominicana	Dominican Republic	bcrd	1	January 1991	2026-09-09
Banco Central de Nicaragua	Nicaragua	bcn	1	January 2012	2026-12-31
Banco Central del Paraguay	Paraguay	bcp	26	January 2016	2026-09-09
Banco Central do Brasil (PTAX)	Brazil	bcb	156	January 2016	2026-09-10
Banco de Guatemala	Guatemala	banguat	1	January 2004	2026-09-10
Bank of Guyana	Guyana	bogy	1	August 2026	2026-08-26
Bank of Jamaica	Jamaica	bojm	123	July 2000	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Argentina	Argentina	bcra	36	January 2000	2026-09-09
Central Bank of Chile	Chile	bcch	60	August 1982	2026-09-09
Central Bank of Suriname	Suriname	cbvs	11	September 2009	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	cbtt	10	January 1991	2026-09-09
Central Bank of Uruguay	Uruguay	bcu	30	January 2000	2026-09-09
Central Bank of Venezuela	Venezuela	bcv	21	September 2017	2026-09-10
Central Reserve Bank of Peru	Peru	bcrp	2	January 2016	2026-09-09
Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia	Colombia	sfc	1	December 1991	2026-09-10
Asia & Pacific 29
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas	Philippines	bsp	31	August 2026	2026-09-10
Bangladesh Bank	Bangladesh	bb	11	November 2010	2026-09-10
Bank Indonesia	Indonesia	bi	25	January 2016	2026-09-10
Bank Negara Malaysia	Malaysia	bnm	27	January 2020	2026-09-10
Bank of Japan	Japan	boj	1	January 1998	2026-09-08
Bank of Korea	South Korea	bok	43	May 1964	2026-09-10
Bank of Mongolia	Mongolia	bom	38	August 2026	2026-09-10
Bank of Thailand	Thailand	bot	48	January 2002	2026-09-10
Bank of the Lao PDR	Laos	bol	14	January 2021	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Armenia	Armenia	cba	30	January 2000	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	cbar	38	January 2016	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Myanmar	Myanmar	cbm	38	July 2012	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	cbsl	54	May 2010	2026-09-10
Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)	Taiwan	cbc	1	January 2008	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	cbu	74	December 2015	2026-09-10
Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Hong Kong	hkma	17	January 1981	2026-08-31
Monetary Authority of Macao	Macao	amcm	17	January 1999	2026-09-10
Monetary Authority of Singapore	Singapore	mas	21	January 1988	2026-09-10
National Bank of Cambodia	Cambodia	nbc	29	January 2016	2026-09-10
National Bank of Georgia	Georgia	nbg	42	January 2016	2026-09-10
National Bank of Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	nbk	48	January 2016	2026-09-10
National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic	Kyrgyzstan	nbkr	48	January 1999	2026-09-11
Nepal Rastra Bank	Nepal	nrb	22	January 1998	2026-09-10
People's Bank of China (CFETS)	China	pboc	25	January 2006	2026-09-10
Reserve Bank of Australia	Australia	rba	20	January 2023	2026-09-10
Reserve Bank of India	India	rbi	6	January 2003	2026-09-10
Reserve Bank of New Zealand	New Zealand	rbnz	17	January 1999	2026-09-10
State Bank of Pakistan	Pakistan	sbp	35	January 2017	2026-09-10
State Bank of Vietnam	Vietnam	sbv	28	January 2009	2026-09-10
Middle East 11
Bank of Israel	Israel	boi	14	June 1975	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Bahrain	Bahrain	cbb	33	January 2016	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Iraq	Iraq	cbiq	19	January 2009	2026-09-09
Central Bank of Jordan	Jordan	cbj	5	August 2026	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Kuwait	Kuwait	cbk	134	January 2008	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Oman	Oman	cbo	48	January 2022	2026-09-10
Central Bank of the UAE	United Arab Emirates	cbuae	75	January 2019	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Türkiye	Türkiye	tcmb	22	January 2020	2026-09-10
Palestine Monetary Authority	Palestine	pma	4	August 2026	2026-09-10
Qatar Central Bank	Qatar	qcb	7	January 2024	2026-09-10
Saudi Central Bank (SAMA)	Saudi Arabia	sama	12	January 2009	2026-07-31
Africa 20
Banco de Moçambique	Mozambique	bdm	20	August 2026	2026-09-10
Bank Al-Maghrib	Morocco	bam	30	January 2000	2026-09-09
Bank of Algeria	Algeria	bda	18	January 2000	2026-09-10
Bank of Botswana	Botswana	bob	7	January 2001	2026-09-10
Bank of Central African States (BEAC)	Central Africa (CEMAC)	beac	13	February 2021	2026-09-10
Bank of Ghana	Ghana	bog	14	July 2007	2026-09-10
Bank of Mauritius	Mauritius	bmu	12	August 2026	2026-09-10
Bank of Tanzania	Tanzania	botz	38	January 2010	2026-09-10
Bank of Uganda	Uganda	bou	33	August 2026	2026-09-10
Bank of Zambia	Zambia	boz	2	January 2026	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Egypt	Egypt	cbe	18	August 2026	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Kenya	Kenya	cbke	21	January 2024	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Nigeria	Nigeria	cbn	13	December 2001	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Tunisia	Tunisia	bct	20	May 2004	2026-09-09
Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)	West Africa (WAEMU)	bceao	27	January 2014	2026-09-09
National Bank of Angola	Angola	bna	70	December 1998	2026-09-10
National Bank of Ethiopia	Ethiopia	nbe	19	September 2024	2026-09-10
National Bank of Rwanda	Rwanda	bnrw	20	January 2012	2026-09-10
Reserve Bank of Malawi	Malawi	rbm	38	January 2016	2026-09-10
South African Reserve Bank	South Africa	sarb	23	January 2000	2026-09-10
Other 14
Bank of Lithuania	Lithuania	lb	87	January 2015	2026-09-10
Bank of Namibia	Namibia	bon	4	September 2026	2026-09-10
Banque Centrale de Mauritanie	Mauritania	bcm	19	December 2023	2026-09-10
Banque Centrale du Congo	DR Congo	bcc	21	September 2026	2026-09-10
Banque de la République d'Haïti	Haiti	brh	1	September 2026	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Barbados	Barbados	cbbd	7	January 2010	2026-09-10
Central Bank of Belize	Belize	cbbz	4	January 2010	2026-09-09
Central Bank of Libya	Libya	cbl	20	January 2015	2026-09-10
Central Bank of The Gambia	Gambia	cbg	32	September 2026	2026-09-10
Maldives Monetary Authority	Maldives	mma	1	April 2011	2026-09-10
National Bank of Tajikistan	Tajikistan	nbt	36	January 2010	2026-09-09
Reserve Bank of Fiji	Fiji	rbf	8	January 2001	2026-09-09
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	rbz	34	April 2024	2026-09-10
Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan	Bhutan	rma	12	May 2024	2026-09-10

No central bank matches that search. Try a country, a bank name or a code.

Currencies counts what each source publishes today. Series a source has retired — the ECB's pre-euro currencies, for example — are left out of that number but remain available from the historical endpoints.

More banks are on the roadmap, with a focus on South and Southeast Asian central banks that other providers skip. Need a specific bank? Tell us — coverage requests move banks up the queue.

Need spreadsheets instead of an API? The download page serves every bank’s latest table and date-range history as Excel, CSV or JSON — included in every paid plan, no API key needed.

Download Central Bank Rates (Excel / CSV)

Quick start

Same API keys and authentication as the rest of AllRatesToday. Ask for a pair with the familiar source/target parameters:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/cbsl/latest?source=USD&target=LKR" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Response:

{
  "bank": "cbsl",
  "name": "Central Bank of Sri Lanka",
  "rate_date": "2026-07-28",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "LKR",
  "rate": 336.2512,
  "rate_type": "indicative",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published"
}

Or fetch the bank's full published table:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/ecb/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

On paid plans, any historical date or time series — for example the ECB rate to apply for an invoice dated June 30:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/ecb/2026-06-30?source=USD&target=EUR" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Published vs derived — always explicit

If a bank doesn't publish your pair directly, the API resolves it from the bank's own table: the inverse pair, or a cross rate via the bank's home currency (USD→JPY from the ECB's EUR→USD and EUR→JPY, for instance). Every such result returns "derived": true and the method used — so you always know whether a number was printed by the central bank or calculated from what it printed. For strict compliance work, use the pairs the bank publishes; the derived flag makes the difference impossible to miss.

Weekends and holidays behave the way auditors expect: the API returns the most recent published table with its true rate_date and a published_on_requested_date flag, because the applicable official rate on a Sunday is Friday's.

What's on which plan

• All plans (including the free tier): /central-banks coverage list and /latest for every covered bank — full table or single pair
• Paid plans: any historical date (/{bank}/2026-06-30) and daily time series (/{bank}/history, up to 5,000 rows per request)

Every central-bank request counts as one API call against the same monthly quota as the core rates API (300/month on the free tier) — one key, one plan, one bill. History is metered by volume: one API call per currency per month of data (a one-year single-pair series is 12 calls; each response reports the charge in billed_requests). Central bank rates change once per business day, so caching a day's table locally makes a small quota go a very long way.

Built for

• Invoicing & accounting — apply the official rate for the invoice date, automatically
• Tax & customs — cite the exact published rate authorities expect
• Audit & reporting — reproducible historical tables that never change after publication
• ERP integrations — one JSON API instead of scraping central bank websites

Frequently asked questions

What is a central bank exchange rate API?

An API returning the official rates central banks publish — the fixed daily reference numbers compliance rules cite — rather than live market prices.

How is this different from your live rates API?

The core API serves real-time mid-market rates that move continuously. This API serves the once-per-business-day tables the banks themselves publish. Many workflows need both — same key covers both.

Can I get the rate for a past date, like an invoice date?

Yes — request any date and you get the bank's official table for it, or a daily time series for one pair. Archives run deep: ECB back to 1999, Nigeria to 2001, India to 2003, Sri Lanka to 2010. Historical data is on paid plans; the latest table is free.

What about weekends and holidays?

You get the most recent published table with its true rate_date — the rate that legally applies on non-business days.

Can I get more banks added?

Yes — coverage is expanding, prioritized by request. Ask for the bank you need.

Try it without an API key

Swap ecb for any source code in the table above. No API key, no sign-up, CORS open — so it works from a browser as well as a server. Every source's most recently published table is available this way, either in full or narrowed to one pair with ?source=&target=.

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/open/central-bank/ecb?source=USD&target=EUR"

{
  "bank": "ecb",
  "rate_date": "2026-08-28",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "EUR",
  "rate": 0.8588851671,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": true,
  "method": "inverse"
}

rate_date is the publisher's own date, not today's: most sources publish on business days only, so a weekend request returns the last table actually published. derived: true means the institution does not publish that pair directly and it was cross-computed within its own table. Free to use with a visible attribution link back to this site. Historical dates, time series and publication calendars need a free API key.

SDKs

Dedicated clients for these official rates, in JavaScript and Python. Both are keyless by default — latest() returns any source's newest published table with no API key — and both are zero-dependency. Methods that need a key say so before making a request.

npm install @allratestoday/central-bank

pip install allratestoday-central-bank

import { CentralBankRates } from '@allratestoday/central-bank';

const cb = new CentralBankRates();                        // no API key
const pair = await cb.latest('ecb', { source: 'USD', target: 'EUR' });
console.log(pair.rate, 'published', pair.rate_date);

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Building something automated on these rates? GET /api/open/central-banks (keyless) lists every source's latest publication date with a stale flag, and each rate response carries age_days — so a lagging source is detectable by your pipeline, not just by us.

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