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.

China flagPeople's Bank of China (CFETS) official daily exchange rates as JSON: 25 currencies against the CNY, history back to 2006. Latest table on every plan. Get your API key.

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.

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

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
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

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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