People's Bank of China (CFETS) Exchange Rate API
Official People's Bank of China (CFETS) rates for 10 Sept 2026: 1 USD = 6.7766 CNY, 1 EUR = 7.8446 CNY. All 25 currencies published, history back to 2006. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.
About People's Bank of China (CFETS)
The People's Bank of China is China's central bank. Each trading day at 09:15 Beijing time the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) publishes the RMB central parity rate — the official midpoint around which onshore yuan trading is allowed to move.
- Official website: www.pbc.gov.cn
- Official rate publication: CFETS RMB central parity rates
Quick start
One request for the pair you need — USD to CNY at the official People's Bank of China (CFETS) rate:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/pboc/latest?source=USD&target=CNY" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Or the bank's full published table:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/pboc/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/pboc/history?source=USD&target=CNY&from=2025-01-01" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Latest published rates (2026-09-10)
Below is the current table from People's Bank of China (CFETS), unmodified — what a call to /latest returns right now, with values CNY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
AUD | CNY | reference | 4.8613 |
CAD | CNY | reference | 4.8816 |
CHF | CNY | reference | 8.3334 |
CNY | AED | reference | 0.54514 |
CNY | DKK | reference | 0.9528 |
CNY | HUF | reference | 46.3338 |
CNY | KRW | reference | 199.57 |
CNY | MOP | reference | 1.1925 |
CNY | MXN | reference | 2.5 |
CNY | MYR | reference | 0.60279 |
CNY | NOK | reference | 1.3679 |
CNY | PLN | reference | 0.54914 |
CNY | RUB | reference | 12.6864 |
CNY | SAR | reference | 0.55729 |
CNY | SEK | reference | 1.4229 |
CNY | THB | reference | 4.8953 |
CNY | TRY | reference | 7.18878 |
CNY | ZAR | reference | 2.3771 |
EUR | CNY | reference | 7.8446 |
GBP | CNY | reference | 9.1362 |
HKD | CNY | reference | 0.86413 |
JPY | CNY | reference | 0.043808999999999994 |
NZD | CNY | reference | 3.9392 |
SGD | CNY | reference | 5.3311 |
USD | CNY | reference | 6.7766 |
Node.js / TypeScript client
A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — pboc-exchange-rate:
npm install pboc-exchange-rate import { getRate } from 'pboc-exchange-rate';
const pair = await getRate('USD', 'CNY', { 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: pboc-exchange-rate documentation.
Why use the official People's Bank of China (CFETS) rate?
When an auditor or tax office in China asks which rate you used, "the CNY mid-market rate at 14:32" is not an answer — the official rate published by People's Bank of China (CFETS) for that date is. This API returns exactly those published figures, stamped with the bank's own rate_date; on weekends and holidays the most recent published table is returned, as compliance rules expect.
Pairs the bank doesn't print directly are resolved from its table (inverse or cross via CNY) and explicitly flagged "derived": true — so what the bank printed and what was computed are never confused.
Endpoints
GET /api/v1/central-bank/pboc/latest— latest table or single pair (all plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/pboc/{YYYY-MM-DD}— the table for any date (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/pboc/history— time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/pboc/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
Is there an API for People's Bank of China (CFETS) exchange rates?
Yes — this one. Official daily CNY rates as clean JSON, latest table on every plan including free.
How often does People's Bank of China (CFETS) update its rates?
New tables land once per business day — the API picks each one up shortly after People's Bank of China (CFETS) publishes it (latest: 2026-09-10).
Is this the official published table?
Yes — the rows are People's Bank of China (CFETS)'s published figures, untouched, with the original publication date attached. Pairs the bank didn't print are computed and flagged derived.
People's Bank of China (CFETS) rates, one API key
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