Reserve Bank of Malawi Exchange Rate API
Official Reserve Bank of Malawi rates for 10 Sept 2026: 1 USD = 1717.02 MWK, 1 EUR = 2058.40 MWK. All 38 currencies published, history back to 2016. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.
About Reserve Bank of Malawi
The Reserve Bank of Malawi publishes daily buying, middle and selling rates for the kwacha against around 38 currencies. Through the kwacha's managed float — including the sharp official devaluations of recent years — the RBM table is the official series Malawian banks, importers and the revenue authority must cite.
- Official website: www.rbm.mw
- Official rate publication: Major rates
Quick start
One request for the pair you need — USD to MWK at the official Reserve Bank of Malawi rate:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/rbm/latest?source=USD&target=MWK" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Or the bank's full published table:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/rbm/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/rbm/history?source=USD&target=MWK&from=2025-01-01" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Latest published rates (2026-09-10)
Below is the current table from Reserve Bank of Malawi, unmodified — what a call to /latest returns right now, with values MWK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
AED | MWK | buy | 467.5226 |
AED | MWK | middle | 472.1483 |
AED | MWK | sell | 476.7739 |
ARS | MWK | buy | 1.1345 |
ARS | MWK | middle | 1.1457 |
ARS | MWK | sell | 1.1569 |
AUD | MWK | buy | 1239.1914 |
AUD | MWK | middle | 1251.4519 |
AUD | MWK | sell | 1263.7125 |
BWP | MWK | buy | 135.6452 |
BWP | MWK | middle | 136.9872 |
BWP | MWK | sell | 138.3293 |
CAD | MWK | buy | 1243.4992 |
CAD | MWK | middle | 1255.8023 |
CAD | MWK | sell | 1268.1054 |
CHF | MWK | buy | 2186.8856 |
CHF | MWK | middle | 2208.5225 |
CHF | MWK | sell | 2230.1595 |
CMD | MWK | buy | 1717.0236 |
CMD | MWK | middle | 1734.0118 |
CMD | MWK | sell | 1751 |
CNY | MWK | buy | 256.0085 |
CNY | MWK | middle | 258.5415 |
CNY | MWK | sell | 261.0744 |
DKK | MWK | buy | 267.3825 |
DKK | MWK | middle | 270.028 |
DKK | MWK | sell | 272.6735 |
ETB | MWK | buy | 10.6217 |
ETB | MWK | middle | 10.7268 |
ETB | MWK | sell | 10.8319 |
EUR | MWK | buy | 2058.3971 |
EUR | MWK | middle | 2078.7628 |
EUR | MWK | sell | 2099.1285 |
GBP | MWK | buy | 2397.602 |
GBP | MWK | middle | 2421.3238 |
GBP | MWK | sell | 2445.0456 |
HKD | MWK | buy | 218.983 |
HKD | MWK | middle | 221.1496 |
HKD | MWK | sell | 223.3162 |
IDR | MWK | buy | 0.0979 |
IDR | MWK | middle | 0.0989 |
IDR | MWK | sell | 0.0999 |
IEP | MWK | buy | 1161.8782 |
IEP | MWK | middle | 1173.3738 |
IEP | MWK | sell | 1184.8694 |
INR | MWK | buy | 18.0298 |
INR | MWK | middle | 18.2082 |
INR | MWK | sell | 18.3866 |
JPY | MWK | buy | 11.1822 |
JPY | MWK | middle | 11.2928 |
JPY | MWK | sell | 11.4035 |
KES | MWK | buy | 13.2742 |
KES | MWK | middle | 13.4056 |
KES | MWK | sell | 13.5369 |
KRW | MWK | buy | 1.283 |
KRW | MWK | middle | 1.2956 |
KRW | MWK | sell | 1.3083 |
KWD | MWK | buy | 5600.2076 |
KWD | MWK | middle | 5655.6158 |
KWD | MWK | sell | 5711.0241 |
LKR | MWK | buy | 5.2285 |
LKR | MWK | middle | 5.2802 |
LKR | MWK | sell | 5.3319 |
MGA | MWK | buy | 0.4045 |
MGA | MWK | middle | 0.4085 |
MGA | MWK | sell | 0.4125 |
MYR | MWK | buy | 422.9122 |
MYR | MWK | middle | 427.0965 |
MYR | MWK | sell | 431.2808 |
MZN | MWK | buy | 27.1466 |
MZN | MWK | middle | 27.4152 |
MZN | MWK | sell | 27.6838 |
NOK | MWK | buy | 186.3656 |
NOK | MWK | middle | 188.2095 |
NOK | MWK | sell | 190.0534 |
NZD | MWK | buy | 1005.4598 |
NZD | MWK | middle | 1015.4077 |
NZD | MWK | sell | 1025.3557 |
PHP | MWK | buy | 27.4843 |
PHP | MWK | middle | 27.7562 |
PHP | MWK | sell | 28.0281 |
PKR | MWK | buy | 6.1953 |
PKR | MWK | middle | 6.2566 |
PKR | MWK | sell | 6.3179 |
SAR | MWK | buy | 457.3242 |
SAR | MWK | middle | 461.8489 |
SAR | MWK | sell | 466.3737 |
SEK | MWK | buy | 179.2338 |
SEK | MWK | middle | 181.0071 |
SEK | MWK | sell | 182.7804 |
SGD | MWK | buy | 1358.5123 |
SGD | MWK | middle | 1371.9533 |
SGD | MWK | sell | 1385.3944 |
THB | MWK | buy | 52.2209 |
THB | MWK | middle | 52.7376 |
THB | MWK | sell | 53.2543 |
TRY | MWK | buy | 35.4084 |
TRY | MWK | middle | 35.7587 |
TRY | MWK | sell | 36.109 |
TZS | MWK | buy | 0.6541 |
TZS | MWK | middle | 0.6606 |
TZS | MWK | sell | 0.667 |
USD | MWK | buy | 1717.0236 |
USD | MWK | middle | 1734.0118 |
USD | MWK | sell | 1751 |
XDR | MWK | buy | 2358.9799 |
XDR | MWK | middle | 2382.3196 |
XDR | MWK | sell | 2405.6592 |
ZAR | MWK | buy | 110.3802 |
ZAR | MWK | middle | 111.4723 |
ZAR | MWK | sell | 112.5644 |
ZMW | MWK | buy | 89.4283 |
ZMW | MWK | middle | 90.3131 |
ZMW | MWK | sell | 91.1979 |
Node.js / TypeScript client
A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — rbm-exchange-rate:
npm install rbm-exchange-rate import { getRate } from 'rbm-exchange-rate';
const pair = await getRate('USD', 'MWK', { 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: rbm-exchange-rate documentation.
Why use the official Reserve Bank of Malawi rate?
When an auditor or tax office in Malawi asks which rate you used, "the MWK mid-market rate at 14:32" is not an answer — the official rate published by Reserve Bank of Malawi 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.
If a pair isn't in the bank's published table, the API computes it from that table (inverse or cross via MWK) and marks it "derived": true — published and computed values are never silently mixed.
Endpoints
GET /api/v1/central-bank/rbm/latest— latest table or single pair (all plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/rbm/{YYYY-MM-DD}— the table for any date (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/rbm/history— time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/rbm/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 Reserve Bank of Malawi exchange rates?
Yes — this one. Official daily MWK rates as clean JSON, latest table on every plan including free.
How often does Reserve Bank of Malawi update its rates?
New tables land once per business day — the API picks each one up shortly after Reserve Bank of Malawi publishes it (latest: 2026-09-10).
Is this the official published table?
Yes — the rows are Reserve Bank of Malawi's published figures, untouched, with the original publication date attached. Pairs the bank didn't print are computed and flagged derived.
Reserve Bank of Malawi rates, one API key
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