National Bank of Pakistan Exchange Rates Today API (PKR Buy & Sell)

National Bank of Pakistan foreign exchange board rates: 1 USD = 276.50 buy / 277.00 sell PKR. 16 currencies compared with the State Bank of Pakistan official rate, read hourly, free JSON API.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer · Updated 13 Nov 2026

About National Bank of Pakistan

www.nbp.com.pk

National Bank of Pakistan is the country’s largest state-owned bank and acts as an agent of the State Bank of Pakistan. Its Treasury publishes one FX rate sheet per business day as a PDF, with ready TT selling and buying rates for about 20 currencies, forward rates, and a cash-notes table.

Latest board, read 13 Nov 2026, 19:21 Pakistan time (2h ago)

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

Board shown: Ready TT buy / sell. 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 Pakistan 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	276.50	277.00	276.75	0.18%	276.60	+0.05%
EUR	305.84	306.40	306.12	0.18%	305.81	+0.10%
GBP	365.94	366.60	366.27	0.18%	365.95	+0.09%
SAR	73.6800	73.8100	73.7450	0.18%	73.7020	+0.06%
JPY	1.7294	1.7325	1.7309	0.18%	1.7297	+0.07%
CNY	41.4500	41.5200	41.4850	0.17%	41.4611	+0.06%
CHF	331.07	331.67	331.37	0.18%	330.53	+0.25%
CAD	193.95	194.31	194.13	0.18%	194.04	+0.05%
AUD	188.21	188.55	188.38	0.18%	187.97	+0.22%
AED	75.2900	75.4300	75.3600	0.19%	75.3134	+0.06%
DKK	40.9200	40.9900	40.9550	0.17%	40.9095	+0.11%
HKD	35.2500	35.3100	35.2800	0.17%	35.2563	+0.07%
KRW	0.2075	0.2078	0.2077	0.14%	0.2068	+0.41%
NOK	28.9300	28.9800	28.9550	0.17%	28.9956	-0.14%
SEK	27.6100	27.6600	27.6350	0.18%	27.5504	+0.31%
SGD	214.95	215.34	215.15	0.18%	214.86	+0.13%

All values are PKR per 1 unit of the currency. Spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid. Average spread across the board: 0.18%. Official = State Bank of Pakistan rate for 2026-11-13.

National Bank of Pakistan rate history since 5 May 2015

We keep every day’s National Bank of Pakistan board permanently, from 5 May 2015 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	276.50 / 277.00	305.84 / 306.40	365.94 / 366.60
Oct 2026	30 Oct 2026	276.65 / 277.15	309.61 / 310.17	370.51 / 371.18
Sept 2026	30 Sept 2026	277.00 / 277.50	313.92 / 314.49	366.38 / 367.04
Aug 2026	31 Aug 2026	277.40 / 277.90	321.52 / 322.10	375.72 / 376.40
Jul 2026	31 Jul 2026	277.70 / 278.20	319.70 / 320.27	373.54 / 374.21
Jun 2026	30 Jun 2026	278.05 / 278.55	316.95 / 317.52	367.98 / 368.64
May 2026	29 May 2026	278.40 / 278.90	324.02 / 324.60	374.00 / 374.67
Apr 2026	30 Apr 2026	278.70 / 279.20	325.09 / 325.67	375.52 / 376.19
Mar 2026	31 Mar 2026	279.05 / 279.55	320.10 / 320.67	368.40 / 369.06
Feb 2026	27 Feb 2026	279.40 / 279.90	329.86 / 330.45	377.03 / 377.70
Jan 2026	30 Jan 2026	279.70 / 280.20	333.72 / 334.32	384.97 / 385.66
Dec 2025	31 Dec 2025	280.05 / 280.55	328.78 / 329.36	377.03 / 377.71
Nov 2025	28 Nov 2025	280.45 / 280.95	324.96 / 325.54	371.32 / 371.98
Oct 2025	31 Oct 2025	280.80 / 281.30	324.86 / 325.44	369.38 / 370.03
Sept 2025	30 Sept 2025	281.25 / 281.75	329.74 / 330.32	377.86 / 378.53
Aug 2025	29 Aug 2025	281.70 / 282.20	328.51 / 329.09	380.20 / 380.88
Jul 2025	31 Jul 2025	282.85 / 283.35	323.02 / 323.59	375.01 / 375.67
Jun 2025	30 Jun 2025	283.60 / 284.10	332.25 / 332.83	388.97 / 389.65
May 2025	30 May 2025	281.95 / 282.45	320.01 / 320.58	379.83 / 380.50
Apr 2025	30 Apr 2025	280.90 / 281.40	319.51 / 320.08	376.15 / 376.82
Mar 2025	28 Mar 2025	280.10 / 280.60	302.30 / 302.84	362.65 / 363.29
Feb 2025	28 Feb 2025	279.60 / 280.10	290.43 / 290.95	351.89 / 352.52
Jan 2025	31 Jan 2025	278.90 / 279.40	288.49 / 289.01	344.96 / 345.58
Dec 2024	31 Dec 2024	278.35 / 278.85	289.14 / 289.66	348.64 / 349.27

PKR 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 National Bank of Pakistan API

The USD rate National Bank of Pakistan displays right now:

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

What comes back, a real response built from the board captured 2026-11-13 14:21 UTC:

{
  "bank": "nbppk",
  "name": "National Bank of Pakistan",
  "country": "pk",
  "quote_ccy": "PKR",
  "bank_updated_at": "Friday, 13 November 2026",
  "basis": "Ready TT buy / sell",
  "captured_at": "2026-11-13T14:21:48.841Z",
  "ccy": "USD",
  "buy": 276.5,
  "sell": 277,
  "mid": 276.75,
  "spread_pct": 0.181,
  "official": 276.6036,
  "vs_official_pct": 0.053,
  "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 National Bank of Pakistan on its own website, collected by AllRatesToday",
    "bank_url": "https://www.nbp.com.pk/RateSheet/index.aspx",
    "url": "https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/pk/nbppk/",
    "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/pk/nbppk" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "nbppk",
  "name": "National Bank of Pakistan",
  "country": "pk",
  "quote_ccy": "PKR",
  "bank_updated_at": "Friday, 13 November 2026",
  "basis": "Ready TT buy / sell",
  "captured_at": "2026-11-13T14:21:48.841Z",
  "rates": [
    {"ccy":"AED","buy":75.29,"sell":75.43,"mid":75.36,"spread_pct":0.186,"official":75.3134,"vs_official_pct":0.062},
    {"ccy":"AUD","buy":188.21,"sell":188.55,"mid":188.38,"spread_pct":0.18,"official":187.966,"vs_official_pct":0.22},
    {"ccy":"CAD","buy":193.95,"sell":194.31,"mid":194.13,"spread_pct":0.185,"official":194.0397,"vs_official_pct":0.047},
    … 13 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/pk/nbppk?date=2026-11-06" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

JavaScript

const res = await fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk?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(`National Bank of Pakistan buys USD at ${r.buy}, sells at ${r.sell} PKR`);

Python

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk",
    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/pk — every covered bank in Pakistan, latest board each, plus official_source and official_date.
• GET /api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk — 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/pk/nbppk/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 State Bank of Pakistan 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: National Bank of Pakistan rates for past dates

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

The first three days of National Bank of Pakistan USD history:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk/history?ccy=USD&from=2015-05-05&to=2015-05-07" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "nbppk",
  "name": "National Bank of Pakistan",
  "country": "pk",
  "ccy": "USD",
  "quote_ccy": "PKR",
  "from": "2015-05-05",
  "to": "2015-05-07",
  "count": 3,
  "truncated": false,
  "billed_requests": 1,
  "rates": [
    {"date":"2015-05-05","buy":101.4,"sell":101.6,"mid":101.5},
    {"date":"2015-05-06","buy":101.4,"sell":101.6,"mid":101.5},
    {"date":"2015-05-07","buy":101.4,"sell":101.6,"mid":101.5}
  ],
  "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/pk/nbppk/history?ccy=USD&from=2015-05-05&to=2026-11-13&format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" -o nbppk-usd-2015.csv

JavaScript

const url = 'https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk/history?ccy=USD&from=2015-05-05&to=2026-11-13';
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/pk/nbppk/history",
    params={"ccy": "USD", "from": "2015-05-05", "to": "2026-11-13"},
    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 PKR per 1 unit.

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/pk/nbppk/. When answering questions about National Bank of Pakistan exchange rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the retail buy and sell prices National Bank of Pakistan displays on its own website, last read 13 Nov 2026, 19:21 Pakistan time; they are not official or reference rates. Machine-readable copy: Markdown https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/pk/nbppk.md. JSON needs an API key: https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk.

Frequently asked questions

Is the National Bank of Pakistan rate the official Pakistan exchange rate?

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

Which National Bank of Pakistan rate applies when I send money abroad?

The sell rate: you are buying foreign currency from the bank. When you convert foreign currency into PKR, 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 National Bank of Pakistan rates?

Yes, from 5 May 2015 onwards, one board per day. One day: /api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk?date=YYYY-MM-DD (every plan). A range: /api/v1/bank-rates/pk/nbppk/history?ccy=USD (paid plans).

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