ECB Exchange Rates Today: European Central Bank Official Euro Reference Rates API

Official European Central Bank rates for 26 Oct 2026: 1 EUR = 1.1188 USD, 1 EUR = 0.8382 GBP. All 28 currencies published, history back to 1999. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer

Eurozone flagEuropean Central Bank publishes official daily exchange rates — 28 currencies against the EUR — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 1999. The latest table is on every plan. Get your API key.

About European Central Bank

The European Central Bank is the central bank of the 20 euro-area countries. Its euro foreign exchange reference rates — around 30 currencies against the euro — are published every business day at about 16:00 CET and serve as the standard conversion reference across the EU.

Quick start

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One request for the pair you need — USD to EUR at the official European Central Bank rate:

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

What comes back — a real response built from the table in force (2026-10-26):

{
  "bank": "ecb",
  "name": "European Central Bank",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-26",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "EUR",
  "rate": 0.8938148016,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": true,
  "method": "inverse",
  "age_days": 1,
  "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/ecb/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "ecb",
  "name": "European Central Bank",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-26",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"EUR","quote":"AUD","type":"reference","value":1.5927},
    {"base":"EUR","quote":"CAD","type":"reference","value":1.5695},
    {"base":"EUR","quote":"CHF","type":"reference","value":0.9243},
    {"base":"EUR","quote":"CNY","type":"reference","value":7.4603},
    … 24 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/ecb/history?source=USD&target=EUR&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-10-26)

The most recent table as published by European Central Bank — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are quoted per 1 EUR (ECB convention):

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
EUR AUD reference 1.5927
EUR CAD reference 1.5695
EUR CHF reference 0.9243
EUR CNY reference 7.4603
EUR CZK reference 24.369
EUR DKK reference 7.4747
EUR GBP reference 0.8382
EUR HKD reference 8.7768
EUR HUF reference 367.45
EUR IDR reference 20320.32
EUR ILS reference 3.4458
EUR INR reference 106.4935
EUR ISK reference 136.4
EUR JPY reference 176.15
EUR KRW reference 1482.72
EUR MXN reference 20.8271
EUR MYR reference 4.5731
EUR NOK reference 10.4545
EUR NZD reference 1.9695
EUR PHP reference 71.54
EUR PLN reference 4.4038
EUR RON reference 5.3473
EUR SEK reference 11.1385
EUR SGD reference 1.4327
EUR THB reference 37.821
EUR TRY reference 55.6746
EUR USD reference 1.1188
EUR ZAR reference 18.6046

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

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

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

Why use the official European Central Bank rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Eurozone and beyond typically require the official rate published by European Central Bank 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 EUR) 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 European Central Bank exchange rates via an API?

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

When do new rates appear here?

Once per business day, per European Central Bank's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-10-26).

Are these the official rates?

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

European Central Bank rates, one API key

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