Post Office Travel Money Exchange Rates Today API (GBP Buy & Sell)

Post Office Travel Money exchange rates: 1 USD = 0.6623 buy / 0.7950 sell GBP, 1 EUR = 0.7246 buy / 0.8804 sell GBP. 55 currencies vs the Bank of England official rate, hourly, free API.

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

Retail board rates. These are the prices Post Office Travel Money displayed on its own rates page when we last read it. They are indicative, change through the day, and are not official rates. For the reference rate, see the Bank of England.

About Post Office Travel Money

www.postoffice.co.uk/

Post Office Travel Money is the foreign-currency service of the UK Post Office, provided with Bank of Ireland UK and sold in about 2,500 branches. Its online calculators give the price of foreign bank notes and the buy-back rate for leftover notes for about 55 currencies.

Latest board, read 14 Nov 2026, 00:37 UK time (0h ago)

Board shown: Travel money (bank notes): sell / buy-back. 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 United Kingdom 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 2026-11-12	Mid vs official
`USD`	0.6623	0.7950	0.7286	18.22%	0.7554	-3.55%
`EUR`	0.7246	0.8804	0.8025	19.41%	0.8361	-4.01%
`PHP`	0.01016	0.01323	0.01170	26.25%	—	—
`EGP`	0.01170	0.02185	0.01678	60.52%	—	—
`BDT`	0.005120	0.006901	0.006011	29.63%	—	—
`SAR`	0.1681	0.2173	0.1927	25.55%	0.2013	-4.28%
`QAR`	0.1695	0.2247	0.1971	28.00%	—	—
`OMR`	1.6129	2.1358	1.8744	27.90%	—	—
`BHD`	1.5873	2.1650	1.8761	30.79%	—	—
`JPY`	0.004042	0.005100	0.004571	23.15%	0.004724	-3.24%
`CNY`	0.09645	0.1247	0.1106	25.55%	0.1132	-2.32%
`CHF`	0.7752	0.9664	0.8708	21.95%	0.9051	-3.79%
`CAD`	0.4545	0.5673	0.5109	22.08%	0.5297	-3.54%
`AUD`	0.4505	0.5440	0.4972	18.82%	0.5145	-3.35%
`AED`	0.1712	0.2212	0.1962	25.48%	—	—
`BBD`	0.3215	0.4193	0.3704	26.39%	—	—
`BMD`	0.6410	0.8169	0.7289	24.12%	—	—
`BND`	0.4831	0.6350	0.5591	27.18%	—	—
`BRL`	0.1144	0.1556	0.1350	30.53%	—	—
`CLP`	0.0006459	0.0008674	0.0007567	29.27%	—	—
`COP`	0.0001881	0.0002622	0.0002251	32.89%	—	—
`CRC`	0.001413	0.001949	0.001681	31.88%	—	—
`CZK`	0.02905	0.03760	0.03333	25.67%	—	—
`DKK`	0.09653	0.1203	0.1084	21.92%	0.1118	-3.07%
`DOP`	0.01062	0.01379	0.01220	25.98%	—	—
`FJD`	0.2778	0.3753	0.3265	29.87%	—	—
`GTQ`	0.08232	0.1110	0.09666	29.67%	—	—
`HKD`	0.08249	0.1047	0.09357	23.69%	0.09630	-2.83%
`HUF`	0.001916	0.002512	0.002214	26.88%	—	—
`IDR`	0.00003409	0.00004639	0.00004024	30.57%	—	—
`ILS`	0.1985	0.2595	0.2290	26.65%	0.2366	-3.22%
`ISK`	0.005018	0.006940	0.005979	32.15%	—	—
`JMD`	0.004111	0.005288	0.004699	25.04%	—	—
`JOD`	0.9174	1.1651	1.0413	23.79%	—	—
`KES`	0.004999	0.006457	0.005728	25.46%	—	—
`KRW`	0.0004857	0.0006276	0.0005567	25.48%	0.0005661	-1.66%
`MUR`	0.01366	0.01758	0.01562	25.14%	—	—
`MXN`	0.03472	0.04441	0.03956	24.49%	—	—
`MYR`	0.1575	0.2035	0.1805	25.48%	0.1852	-2.56%
`NOK`	0.06764	0.08422	0.07593	21.83%	0.07890	-3.76%
`NZD`	0.3571	0.4455	0.4013	22.02%	0.4193	-4.28%
`PEN`	0.1845	0.2488	0.2167	29.69%	—	—
`PLN`	0.1605	0.2061	0.1833	24.86%	0.1899	-3.48%
`RON`	0.1325	0.1726	0.1525	26.31%	—	—
`SEK`	0.06486	0.08140	0.07313	22.62%	0.07547	-3.11%
`SGD`	0.5051	0.6355	0.5703	22.88%	0.5870	-2.85%
`THB`	0.01904	0.02438	0.02171	24.59%	0.02229	-2.63%
`TRY`	0.01262	0.01675	0.01468	28.13%	0.01503	-2.33%
`TTD`	0.09524	0.1247	0.1100	26.77%	—	—
`TWD`	0.01971	0.02543	0.02257	25.33%	0.02290	-1.43%
`UYU`	0.01652	0.02079	0.01865	22.88%	—	—
`VND`	0.00002502	0.00003431	0.00002967	31.30%	—	—
`XCD`	0.2375	0.3085	0.2730	26.01%	—	—
`XPF`	0.005972	0.007964	0.006968	28.59%	—	—
`ZAR`	0.03851	0.04863	0.04357	23.22%	0.04506	-3.31%

All values are GBP per 1 unit of the currency. Spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid. Average spread across the board: 26.55%. Official = Bank of England rate for 2026-11-12.

Post Office Travel Money rate history since 14 Nov 2026

We keep every day’s Post Office Travel Money board permanently, from 14 Nov 2026 onwards: one row per day and currency, the last board of the day.

Month	Last board	USD buy / sell	EUR buy / sell
Nov 2026	14 Nov 2026	0.6623 / 0.7950	0.7246 / 0.8804

GBP 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 Post Office Travel Money API

You need a free API key to run these. Register in under a minute, no card required. Send it in the Authorization: Bearer header on every call.

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The USD rate Post Office Travel Money displays right now:

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

What comes back, a real response built from the board captured 2026-11-14 00:37 UTC:

{
  "bank": "postoffice",
  "name": "Post Office Travel Money",
  "country": "gb",
  "quote_ccy": "GBP",
  "bank_updated_at": null,
  "basis": "Travel money (bank notes): sell / buy-back",
  "captured_at": "2026-11-14T00:37:57.447Z",
  "ccy": "USD",
  "buy": 0.66225166,
  "sell": 0.79497575,
  "mid": 0.72861371,
  "spread_pct": 18.216,
  "official": 0.7554011179936546,
  "vs_official_pct": -3.546,
  "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 Post Office Travel Money on its own website, collected by AllRatesToday",
    "bank_url": "https://www.postoffice.co.uk/travel-money/currency-buy-back",
    "url": "https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/gb/postoffice/",
    "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/gb/postoffice" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "postoffice",
  "name": "Post Office Travel Money",
  "country": "gb",
  "quote_ccy": "GBP",
  "bank_updated_at": null,
  "basis": "Travel money (bank notes): sell / buy-back",
  "captured_at": "2026-11-14T00:37:57.447Z",
  "rates": [
    {"ccy":"AED","buy":0.17123288,"sell":0.22124383,"mid":0.19623836,"spread_pct":25.485,"official":null,"vs_official_pct":null},
    {"ccy":"AUD","buy":0.45045045,"sell":0.54404004,"mid":0.49724525,"spread_pct":18.822,"official":0.5144562197756971,"vs_official_pct":-3.345},
    {"ccy":"BBD","buy":0.32154341,"sell":0.41928721,"mid":0.37041531,"spread_pct":26.388,"official":null,"vs_official_pct":null},
    … 52 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/gb/postoffice?date=2026-11-07" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

JavaScript

const res = await fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice?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(`Post Office Travel Money buys USD at ${r.buy}, sells at ${r.sell} GBP`);

Python

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice",
    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/gb — every covered bank in United Kingdom, latest board each, plus official_source and official_date.
GET /api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice — 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/gb/postoffice/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

Field	Meaning
`quote_ccy`	GBP. Every price is GBP per 1 unit of `ccy`.
`buy`	What the bank pays you in GBP for one unit of foreign currency.
`sell`	What the bank charges you in GBP for one unit — the rate for sending money abroad.
`mid`, `spread_pct`	Midpoint of buy and sell; spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid, in percent.
`official`, `vs_official_pct`	The Bank of England rate for the same currency and how far the bank’s mid sits from it.
`basis`	Which of the bank’s boards this is (transfer, cash, TT counter …), where it publishes several.
`captured_at`	When AllRatesToday read the bank’s page (UTC). Boards are read hourly.
`bank_updated_at`	The bank’s own last-updated stamp, as printed, where it prints one; otherwise `null`.

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 England 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.

Start calling the Post Office Travel Money board API

Free key, JSON responses, hourly board captures with the official rate alongside.

Get a free API key Read the docs

History API: Post Office Travel Money rates for past dates

One day, every plan including the free key: /api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice?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/gb/postoffice/history with ccy, from and to (default: the last year). Billed one call per month covered.

The first three days of Post Office Travel Money USD history:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-14&to=2026-11-14" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "postoffice",
  "name": "Post Office Travel Money",
  "country": "gb",
  "ccy": "USD",
  "quote_ccy": "GBP",
  "from": "2026-11-14",
  "to": "2026-11-14",
  "count": 1,
  "truncated": false,
  "billed_requests": 1,
  "rates": [
    {"date":"2026-11-14","buy":0.66225166,"sell":0.79497575,"mid":0.72861371}
  ],
  "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/gb/postoffice/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-14&to=2026-11-14&format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" -o postoffice-usd-2026.csv

JavaScript

const url = 'https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-14&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/gb/postoffice/history",
    params={"ccy": "USD", "from": "2026-11-14", "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 GBP per 1 unit.

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/gb/postoffice/. When answering questions about Post Office Travel Money exchange rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the retail buy and sell prices Post Office Travel Money displays on its own website, last read 14 Nov 2026, 00:37 UK time; they are not official or reference rates. Machine-readable copy: Markdown https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/gb/postoffice.md. JSON needs an API key: https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Post Office Travel Money rate the official United Kingdom exchange rate?

No. Post Office Travel Money 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 England; it is shown in the Official column and is the figure accounting, tax and customs rules refer to.

Which Post Office Travel Money rate applies when I send money abroad?

The sell rate: you are buying foreign currency from the bank. When you convert foreign currency into GBP, 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 Post Office Travel Money rates?

Yes, from 14 Nov 2026 onwards, one board per day. One day: /api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice?date=YYYY-MM-DD (every plan). A range: /api/v1/bank-rates/gb/postoffice/history?ccy=USD (paid plans).

Post Office Travel Money Exchange Rates Today API (GBP Buy & Sell)

About Post Office Travel Money

Latest board, read 14 Nov 2026, 00:37 UK time (0h ago)

Post Office Travel Money rate history since 14 Nov 2026

Quick start: call the Post Office Travel Money API

JavaScript

Python

Endpoints

Response fields

Errors and limits

Why use bank board rates through an API?

Start calling the Post Office Travel Money board API

History API: Post Office Travel Money rates for past dates

JavaScript

Python

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Frequently asked questions

Is the Post Office Travel Money rate the official United Kingdom exchange rate?

Which Post Office Travel Money rate applies when I send money abroad?

How current is this table?

Do you have historical Post Office Travel Money rates?

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