Banco Central de Honduras Exchange Rate API
Official Banco Central de Honduras rates for 10 Sept 2026: 1 USD = 26.883 HNL. All 1 currency published, history back to 2019. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.
About Banco Central de Honduras
The Banco Central de Honduras sets the lempira's daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar through its foreign-exchange auction system. The reference price is published each business day and is the rate Honduran banks, importers and the tax administration convert at in a heavily dollar-invoiced trading economy.
- Official website: www.bch.hn
- Official rate publication: Precio del dólar — tipo de cambio de referencia
Quick start
One request for the pair you need — USD to HNL at the official Banco Central de Honduras rate:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bch/latest?source=USD&target=HNL" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Or the bank's full published table:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bch/latest" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" On paid plans, any historical date or a time series:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/bch/history?source=USD&target=HNL&from=2025-01-01" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Latest published rates (2026-09-10)
The most recent table as published by Banco Central de Honduras — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are HNL per 1 unit of each currency:
Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV (paid plan required)
One row per currency per publication date. Up to one year per download. Billed as one API call per currency per month of data.
Prefer a bulk file? The complete archive of every source is also published as an open dataset: central-bank-exchange-rates on Hugging Face
| Base | Quote | Type | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
USD | HNL | reference | 26.8831 |
Node.js / TypeScript client
A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — bch-exchange-rate:
npm install bch-exchange-rate import { getRate } from 'bch-exchange-rate';
const pair = await getRate('USD', 'HNL', { apiKey: 'art_live_...' });
console.log(pair.rate, pair.rate_date); Zero dependencies, TypeScript types included, and it runs anywhere fetch exists — Node 18+, Bun, Deno, and edge runtimes.
Full reference — installation, all four functions, response shapes, error codes: bch-exchange-rate documentation.
Why use the official Banco Central de Honduras rate?
Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Honduras and beyond typically require the official rate published by Banco Central de Honduras for a given date — a fixed, citable number that never changes after publication. This API serves those published tables with the bank's own rate_date on every response; weekends and holidays return the most recent published date, which is the rate compliance rules require you to apply.
If a pair isn't in the bank's published table, the API computes it from that table (inverse or cross via HNL) and marks it "derived": true — published and computed values are never silently mixed.
Endpoints
GET /api/v1/central-bank/bch/latest— latest table or single pair (all plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/bch/{YYYY-MM-DD}— the table for any date (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/bch/history— time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/bch/availability— publication calendar: the dates the bank actually published (all plans)
Full parameter reference in the API documentation. Every request counts toward your plan's monthly quota — rates change once per business day, so caching a published table locally makes a small quota go far.
Frequently asked questions
Can I get Banco Central de Honduras exchange rates via an API?
Yes — this API serves the bank's official daily HNL rates as JSON, and the latest table is on every plan, free included.
When do new rates appear here?
Once per business day, per Banco Central de Honduras's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-09-10).
Are these the official rates?
Yes — ingested from Banco Central de Honduras's own published data, served unmodified with the bank's publication date. Anything computed rather than published is flagged derived.
Banco Central de Honduras rates, one API key
Latest table on every plan. History back to 2019 on paid plans. No credit card to start.
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