Bank of England Exchange Rates Today & Official API

Official Bank of England rates for 23 Oct 2026: 1 GBP = 1.3387 USD, 1 GBP = 1.1947 EUR. All 23 currencies published, history back to 2016. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer

United Kingdom flagBank of England publishes official daily exchange rates — 23 currencies against the GBP — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 2016. The latest table is on every plan. Get your API key.

About Bank of England

The Bank of England, founded in 1694, is the United Kingdom's central bank. It publishes daily spot exchange rates against sterling in its Statistical Interactive Database each business day around 16:00 London time.

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One request for the pair you need — GBP to USD at the official Bank of England rate:

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

What comes back — a real response built from the table in force (2026-10-23):

{
  "bank": "boe",
  "name": "Bank of England",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-23",
  "source": "GBP",
  "target": "USD",
  "rate": 1.3387,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published",
  "age_days": 4,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "disclaimer": "Official rates as published by the named central bank. On weekends/holidays the most recent published rate_date is returned."
}

Or the bank's full published table:

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

The full-table response has the same envelope with every published row (first rows shown):

{
  "bank": "boe",
  "name": "Bank of England",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-23",
  "age_days": 4,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"GBP","quote":"AUD","type":"reference","value":1.9038},
    {"base":"GBP","quote":"CAD","type":"reference","value":1.8716},
    {"base":"GBP","quote":"CHF","type":"reference","value":1.1036},
    {"base":"GBP","quote":"CNY","type":"reference","value":8.9287},
    … 19 more rows
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Official rates as published by the named central bank. On weekends/holidays the most recent published rate_date is returned."
}

On paid plans, any historical date or a time series:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/boe/history?source=GBP&target=USD&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-10-23)

The most recent table as published by Bank of England — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are GBP per 1 unit of each currency:

Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV

Download history:
Choose currencies: USD
Excel (.xlsx) CSV

One row per currency per publication date. Up to one year per download. Billed as one API call per currency per month of data.

BaseQuoteTypeRate
GBP AUD reference 1.9038
GBP CAD reference 1.8716
GBP CHF reference 1.1036
GBP CNY reference 8.9287
GBP DKK reference 8.9301
GBP EUR reference 1.1947
GBP HKD reference 10.4977
GBP ILS reference 4.1572
GBP INR reference 127.0981
GBP JPY reference 209.8802
GBP KRW reference 1774.568
GBP MYR reference 5.4691
GBP NOK reference 12.4927
GBP NZD reference 2.3485
GBP PLN reference 5.2568
GBP SAR reference 5.0245
GBP SEK reference 13.2875
GBP SGD reference 1.711
GBP THB reference 45.1995
GBP TRY reference 66.5809
GBP TWD reference 43.6119
GBP USD reference 1.3387
GBP ZAR reference 22.2379

Node.js / TypeScript client

A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — boe-exchange-rate:

npm install boe-exchange-rate
import { getRate } from 'boe-exchange-rate';

const pair = await getRate('GBP', 'USD', { 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: boe-exchange-rate documentation.

Why use the official Bank of England rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in United Kingdom and beyond typically require the official rate published by Bank of England 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.

Pairs the bank doesn't print directly are resolved from its table (inverse or cross via GBP) and explicitly flagged "derived": true — so what the bank printed and what was computed are never confused.

Endpoints

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 Bank of England exchange rates via an API?

Yes — this API serves the bank's official daily GBP rates as JSON, and the latest table is on every plan, free included.

When do new rates appear here?

Once per business day, per Bank of England's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-10-23).

Are these the official rates?

Yes — ingested from Bank of England's own published data, served unmodified with the bank's publication date. Anything computed rather than published is flagged derived.

Bank of England rates, one API key

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