CBB Exchange Rates Today: Central Bank of Bahrain Official BHD Rates API

Official Central Bank of Bahrain rates for 27 Oct 2026: 1 EUR = 0.42014 BHD, 1 GBP = 0.5018 BHD (1 USD fixed at 0.37608 BHD). All 33 currencies published, history back to 2016, CSV/Excel download. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer

Bahrain flagCentral Bank of Bahrain publishes official daily exchange rates — 33 currencies against the BHD — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 2016. The latest table is on every plan. Get your API key.

About Central Bank of Bahrain

The Central Bank of Bahrain regulates Bahrain's financial sector and issues the Bahraini dinar, pegged to the US dollar at 0.376 BHD. It publishes official daily exchange rates for around 30 currencies.

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One request for the pair you need — USD to BHD at the official Central Bank of Bahrain rate:

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

What comes back — a real response built from the table in force (2026-10-27):

{
  "bank": "cbb",
  "name": "Central Bank of Bahrain",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-27",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "BHD",
  "rate": 0.376081,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published",
  "age_days": 0,
  "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/cbb/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "cbb",
  "name": "Central Bank of Bahrain",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-27",
  "age_days": 0,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"AED","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.102391},
    {"base":"ANG","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.210101},
    {"base":"AUD","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.263859},
    {"base":"BDT","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.003039},
    … 29 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/cbb/history?source=USD&target=BHD&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-10-27)

The most recent table as published by Central Bank of Bahrain — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are BHD 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
AED BHD reference 0.102391
ANG BHD reference 0.210101
AUD BHD reference 0.263859
BDT BHD reference 0.003039
CAD BHD reference 0.268294
CHF BHD reference 0.454287
CNY BHD reference 0.0564
EGP BHD reference 0.006684
EUR BHD reference 0.420139
GBP BHD reference 0.501805
HKD BHD reference 0.047942
IDR BHD reference 0.000021
ILS BHD reference 0.122067
INR BHD reference 0.003951
JOD BHD reference 0.530476
JPY BHD reference 0.002386
KWD BHD reference 1.209848
LBP BHD reference 0.000004
LKR BHD reference 0.001132
MAD BHD reference 0.038212
NOK BHD reference 0.040367
NPR BHD reference 0.00247
NZD BHD reference 0.214065
OMR BHD reference 0.976758
PHP BHD reference 0.00588
PKR BHD reference 0.001357
QAR BHD reference 0.103167
SAR BHD reference 0.100209
SGD BHD reference 0.293596
THB BHD reference 0.011136
TND BHD reference 0.125396
TRY BHD reference 0.007554
USD BHD reference 0.376081

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

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

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

Why use the official Central Bank of Bahrain rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Bahrain and beyond typically require the official rate published by Central Bank of Bahrain 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 BHD) and marks it "derived": true — published and computed values are never silently mixed.

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 Central Bank of Bahrain exchange rates via an API?

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

When do new rates appear here?

Once per business day, per Central Bank of Bahrain's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-10-27).

Are these the official rates?

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

Central Bank of Bahrain rates, one API key

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