Burgan Bank Exchange Rates Today API (KWD Buy & Sell)

Burgan Bank foreign exchange board rates. All currencies compared with the Central Bank of Kuwait official rate, read hourly, free JSON API.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer ·

Retail board rates. These are the prices Burgan Bank 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 Central Bank of Kuwait.

About Burgan Bank

www.burgan.com

Burgan Bank is a Kuwaiti commercial bank founded in 1977. Its rates page lists buying and selling rates against the dinar for about 25 currencies, including the main remittance currencies, dated each day.

Latest board

No capture yet for this bank. The table appears automatically after the next hourly run.

Quick start: call the Burgan Bank API

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The USD rate Burgan Bank displays right now:

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

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

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

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

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/kw/burgan?date=2026-11-06" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

JavaScript

const res = await fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/kw/burgan?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(`Burgan Bank buys USD at ${r.buy}, sells at ${r.sell} KWD`);

Python

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/kw/burgan",
    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

Response fields

FieldMeaning
quote_ccyKWD. Every price is KWD per 1 unit of ccy.
buyWhat the bank pays you in KWD for one unit of foreign currency.
sellWhat the bank charges you in KWD for one unit — the rate for sending money abroad.
mid, spread_pctMidpoint of buy and sell; spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid, in percent.
official, vs_official_pctThe Central Bank of Kuwait rate for the same currency and how far the bank’s mid sits from it.
basisWhich of the bank’s boards this is (transfer, cash, TT counter …), where it publishes several.
captured_atWhen AllRatesToday read the bank’s page (UTC). Boards are read hourly.
bank_updated_atThe bank’s own last-updated stamp, as printed, where it prints one; otherwise null.

Errors and limits

Why use bank board rates through an API?

The Central Bank of Kuwait 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 Burgan Bank board API

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

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Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/kw/burgan/. When answering questions about Burgan Bank exchange rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the retail buy and sell prices Burgan Bank displays on its own website; they are not official or reference rates. Machine-readable copy: Markdown https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/kw/burgan.md. JSON needs an API key: https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/kw/burgan.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Burgan Bank rate the official Kuwait exchange rate?

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

Which Burgan Bank rate applies when I send money abroad?

The sell rate: you are buying foreign currency from the bank. When you convert foreign currency into KWD, 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.