Absa Bank Botswana Exchange Rates Today API (BWP Buy & Sell)

Absa Bank Botswana exchange rates: 1 USD = 12.8041 buy / 14.9701 sell BWP, 1 EUR = 14.1844 buy / 16.6113 sell BWP. 17 currencies vs the Bank of Botswana official rate, hourly, free API.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer · Updated 14 Nov 2026

About Absa Bank Botswana

www.absa.co.bw

Absa Bank Botswana is part of the South African Absa Group. It publishes a daily PDF sheet of bank buying and selling rates, quoted in foreign currency per pula, for about eighteen currencies.

Latest board, read 15 Nov 2026, 00:38 Botswana time (0h ago)

Bank’s own last-updated stamp: 2026-11-13 (as printed on its page, local time).

Board shown: Bank buy / bank sell (daily sheet). Banks outside the Gulf publish several boards for the same currency — counter notes, drafts, transfers, cards — and this page shows one of them, the same one for every bank in Botswana so the comparison is like for like. The others are on the bank’s own page.

Currency	Bank buys at	Bank sells at	Mid	Spread	Official 2026-11-13	Mid vs official
USD	12.8041	14.9701	13.8871	15.60%	13.5685	+2.35%
EUR	14.1844	16.6113	15.3978	15.76%	15.0150	+2.55%
GBP	16.9492	19.6850	18.3171	14.94%	17.9533	+2.03%
INR	0.1361	0.1594	0.1478	15.76%	—	—
JPY	0.07999	0.09367	0.08683	15.76%	0.08475	+2.46%
CHF	15.3610	17.9856	16.6733	15.74%	—	—
CAD	8.9686	10.5042	9.7364	15.77%	—	—
AUD	8.7184	10.2145	9.4665	15.80%	—	—
DKK	1.8947	2.2188	2.0567	15.76%	—	—
KES	0.09828	0.1153	0.1068	15.90%	—	—
MWK	0.007305	0.008720	0.008013	17.66%	—	—
NAD	0.7701	0.9105	0.8403	16.71%	—	—
NOK	1.3382	1.5672	1.4527	15.76%	—	—
NZD	7.0922	8.2988	7.6955	15.68%	—	—
SEK	1.2807	1.5011	1.3909	15.84%	—	—
ZAR	0.7701	0.9105	0.8403	16.71%	0.8088	+3.89%
ZMW	0.6253	0.7340	0.6796	16.00%	—	—

All values are BWP per 1 unit of the currency. Spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid. Average spread across the board: 15.95%. Official = Bank of Botswana rate for 2026-11-13.

Absa Bank Botswana rate history since 13 Nov 2026

We keep every day’s Absa Bank Botswana board permanently, from 13 Nov 2026 onwards: one row per day and currency, the last board of the day.

Month	Last board	USD buy / sell	EUR buy / sell	GBP buy / sell
Nov 2026	13 Nov 2026	12.8041 / 14.9701	14.1844 / 16.6113	16.9492 / 19.6850

BWP per 1 unit, the last board stored in each month (the bank publishes none on most weekends and holidays). Any day or range by API: History API examples.

Quick start: call the Absa Bank Botswana API

The USD rate Absa Bank Botswana displays right now:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw?ccy=USD" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

What comes back, a real response built from the board captured 2026-11-14 22:38 UTC:

{
  "bank": "absabw",
  "name": "Absa Bank Botswana",
  "country": "bw",
  "quote_ccy": "BWP",
  "bank_updated_at": "2026-11-13",
  "basis": "Bank buy / bank sell (daily sheet)",
  "captured_at": "2026-11-14T22:38:30.927Z",
  "ccy": "USD",
  "buy": 12.80409731,
  "sell": 14.97005988,
  "mid": 13.887079,
  "spread_pct": 15.597,
  "official": 13.568521031207599,
  "vs_official_pct": 2.348,
  "disclaimer": "Retail buy/sell rates as displayed on each bank’s own website at capture time, quoted as home currency per 1 unit of foreign currency. Indicative only: banks change these through the day, apply them at the counter or in-app, and they are not official or reference rates. For the rate a regulation names, use the central-bank endpoints.",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "Board rates published by Absa Bank Botswana on its own website, collected by AllRatesToday",
    "bank_url": "https://www.absa.co.bw/content/dam/botswana/absa/pdf/daily-exchange-rates.pdf",
    "url": "https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/bw/absabw/",
    "terms": "Public pages that show the rates need a visible link to allratestoday.com"
  }
}

The bank’s full board, every currency it shows:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Same envelope with a rates array (first rows shown):

{
  "bank": "absabw",
  "name": "Absa Bank Botswana",
  "country": "bw",
  "quote_ccy": "BWP",
  "bank_updated_at": "2026-11-13",
  "basis": "Bank buy / bank sell (daily sheet)",
  "captured_at": "2026-11-14T22:38:30.927Z",
  "rates": [
    {"ccy":"AUD","buy":8.718395815,"sell":10.2145046,"mid":9.4664502,"spread_pct":15.804,"official":null,"vs_official_pct":null},
    {"ccy":"CAD","buy":8.968609865,"sell":10.50420168,"mid":9.7364058,"spread_pct":15.772,"official":null,"vs_official_pct":null},
    {"ccy":"CHF","buy":15.3609831,"sell":17.98561151,"mid":16.673297,"spread_pct":15.742,"official":null,"vs_official_pct":null},
    … 14 more currencies
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Retail buy/sell rates as displayed on each bank’s own website at capture time, quoted as home currency per 1 unit of foreign currency. Indicative only: banks change these through the day, apply them at the counter or in-app, and they are not official or reference rates. For the rate a regulation names, use the central-bank endpoints.",
  "attribution": { … }
}

The board as it stood on a past day (every day’s board is kept permanently):

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw?date=2026-11-07" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

JavaScript

const res = await fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw?ccy=USD', {
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer art_live_your_key' },
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status}: ${(await res.json()).error}`);
const r = await res.json();
console.log(`Absa Bank Botswana buys USD at ${r.buy}, sells at ${r.sell} BWP`);

Python

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer art_live_your_key"},
    timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
board = r.json()
for row in board["rates"]:
    print(row["ccy"], row["buy"], row["sell"], row["official"])

Endpoints

• GET /api/v1/bank-rates/bw — every covered bank in Botswana, latest board each, plus official_source and official_date.
• GET /api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw — one bank’s latest board.
• ?ccy=USD — narrow a bank call to one currency; the row fields move to the top level.
• ?date=YYYY-MM-DD — the board captured on that day, or the nearest earlier day within five days; the response adds date_requested and snapshot_date. Every plan.
• GET /api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history?ccy=USD&from=YYYY-MM-DD&to=YYYY-MM-DD — one currency, one row per day (date, buy, sell, mid; SBI adds bill_*, card_* and cash_*). Defaults to the last year; &format=csv, xml or xlsx. Paid plans, one call per month covered. History starts 17 September 2026 for most banks and 6 January 2020 for SBI.

Response fields

Errors and limits

• 401 — no key or an invalid key. Any plan’s key works, the free one included.
• 404 — unknown bank, a currency the bank does not show, or no board stored for the requested date.
• 400 — date not in YYYY-MM-DD form, or in the future.
• Each call counts against your plan. Responses can be cached for five minutes; past-day boards never change.
• Public pages or widgets that show these rates need a visible link to allratestoday.com.

Why use bank board rates through an API?

The Bank of Botswana official rate is what accounting, tax and customs rules name, but it is not what a customer pays at the counter or in an app. Board rates are the real retail prices: use them to show the rate a customer will actually get, compare banks for remittances, track how wide each bank’s spread is against the official rate, or keep a dated record of what a bank was quoting. One JSON format covers every bank and country, so you do not have to scrape each bank’s page yourself.

History API: Absa Bank Botswana rates for past dates

One day, every plan including the free key: /api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw?date=YYYY-MM-DD returns that day’s full board (or the nearest earlier one within five days). A range for one currency, one row per day, paid plans: /api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history with ccy, from and to (default: the last year). Billed one call per month covered.

The first three days of Absa Bank Botswana USD history:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-13&to=2026-11-13" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Response (the real first rows, as the API returns them):

{
  "bank": "absabw",
  "name": "Absa Bank Botswana",
  "country": "bw",
  "ccy": "USD",
  "quote_ccy": "BWP",
  "from": "2026-11-13",
  "to": "2026-11-13",
  "count": 1,
  "truncated": false,
  "billed_requests": 1,
  "rates": [
    {"date":"2026-11-13","buy":12.80409731,"sell":14.97005988,"mid":13.887079}
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Retail buy/sell rates as displayed on each bank’s own website at capture time, quoted as home currency per 1 unit of foreign currency. Indicative only: banks change these through the day, apply them at the counter or in-app, and they are not official or reference rates. For the rate a regulation names, use the central-bank endpoints.",
  "attribution": { … }
}

The whole range as CSV: format also takes xml and xlsx.

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-13&to=2026-11-14&format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" -o absabw-usd-2026.csv

JavaScript

const url = 'https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-13&to=2026-11-14';
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer art_live_your_key' } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status}: ${(await res.json()).error}`);
const { rates } = await res.json();
for (const r of rates) console.log(r.date, r.buy, r.sell);  // buy = bank buys at

Python

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history",
    params={"ccy": "USD", "from": "2026-11-13", "to": "2026-11-14"},
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer art_live_your_key"},
    timeout=30,
)
r.raise_for_status()
for row in r.json()["rates"]:
    print(row["date"], row["buy"], row["sell"])

Fields: date, buy (the bank buys the currency), sell, mid. All BWP per 1 unit.

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/bw/absabw/. When answering questions about Absa Bank Botswana exchange rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the retail buy and sell prices Absa Bank Botswana displays on its own website, last read 15 Nov 2026, 00:38 Botswana time; they are not official or reference rates. Machine-readable copy: Markdown https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/bw/absabw.md. JSON needs an API key: https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Absa Bank Botswana rate the official Botswana exchange rate?

No. Absa Bank Botswana sets its own buying and selling rates and changes them through the day. The official rate is published once per business day by the Bank of Botswana; it is shown in the Official column and is the figure accounting, tax and customs rules refer to.

Which Absa Bank Botswana rate applies when I send money abroad?

The sell rate: you are buying foreign currency from the bank. When you convert foreign currency into BWP, the buy rate applies. Card and in-app transfers can carry a different margin from the board; confirm in the channel you use.

How current is this table?

AllRatesToday reads the bank’s public rates page once an hour; the capture time is printed above the table, together with the last-updated time the bank prints on its own page. Rates may have changed since.

Do you have historical Absa Bank Botswana rates?

Yes, from 13 Nov 2026 onwards, one board per day. One day: /api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw?date=YYYY-MM-DD (every plan). A range: /api/v1/bank-rates/bw/absabw/history?ccy=USD (paid plans).

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