--- title: "Banco LAFISE Honduras Exchange Rate API: HNL Buy and Sell Rates as JSON" description: "Banco LAFISE Honduras's buy / sell rates for 2 currencies against the Honduran lempira, read hourly from the bank's own page and served as JSON with the Banco Central de Honduras official rate alongside. REST, JavaScript and Python examples." canonical: https://allratestoday.com/blog/banco-lafise-honduras-exchange-rate-api/ source: AllRatesToday (https://allratestoday.com/) — Markdown mirror of the page above; index of all pages at https://allratestoday.com/llms.txt generated: 2026-11-15T19:12:38.059Z --- Banco LAFISE Honduras is the Honduran bank of the Central American LAFISE group. Its home page shows the day’s buying and selling prices for the US dollar and the euro. This guide shows how to read that board as JSON: what the rates mean, how they compare with the Banco Central de Honduras official rate and with other banks in Honduras, and the calls that return them. ## What the LAFISE board shows - **2 currencies against the Honduran lempira**: EUR and USD. Every value is HNL per 1 unit of the foreign currency. - **The buy / sell pair.** Honduran banks quote the US dollar in lempiras off the Banco Central de Honduras reference rate, so several banks print the same buying and selling price. Spreads on the dollar are well under one percent; euro spreads are much wider. The Banco Central de Honduras official rate is shown next to each row. - **USD on 15 November 2026**: LAFISE bought at 26.9268 and sold at 27.0614 HNL, a spread of 0.50%. The Banco Central de Honduras official rate was 26.939, so the bank's mid sat +0.20% from it. - **The bank's own timestamp.** The page prints a last-updated stamp (`2026-11-15` on the board above), returned as `bank_updated_at` next to our `captured_at`. - **Every day's board is kept permanently, from 14 November 2026.** Read one past day with `?date=`, or a range for one currency with the `/history` endpoint (paid plans). ## Spreads across the board On the 15 November 2026 board the spreads were USD 0.50%, EUR 12.57%. Spread is (sell − buy) ÷ mid: what a round trip through the bank costs, before any fees. The API returns it on every row as `spread_pct`, so you can rank currencies or alert when a bank widens its board. ## USD at LAFISE and other banks in Honduras USD on the 5 boards AllRatesToday reads in Honduras, all captured on 15 November 2026 (the Banco Central de Honduras official rate was 26.939): | Bank | Buy | Sell | Spread | Mid vs official | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Banco Ficohsa Honduras | 26.9268 | 27.0614 | 0.50% | +0.20% | | Banco de Occidente (Honduras) | 26.9268 | 27.0614 | 0.50% | +0.20% | | Banrural Honduras | 26.9157 | 27.0503 | 0.50% | +0.16% | | Banco Atlántida | 26.9268 | 27.0614 | 0.50% | +0.20% | | **Banco LAFISE Honduras** | 26.9268 | 27.0614 | 0.50% | +0.20% | LAFISE had the 5th narrowest USD spread of the 5. One call to `/api/v1/bank-rates/hn` returns every board in the table at once. ## Get the board (REST) You need an API key; the [free key](https://allratestoday.com/register/) works. The full board: ``` curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hn/lafisehn" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" ``` What comes back (the 15 November 2026 board, first three rows): ``` { "bank": "lafisehn", "name": "Banco LAFISE Honduras", "country": "hn", "quote_ccy": "HNL", "bank_updated_at": "2026-11-15", "basis": "Buy / sell", "captured_at": "2026-11-15T11:30:44.916Z", "rates": [ {"ccy":"EUR","buy":28.2913,"sell":32.0877,"mid":30.1895,"spread_pct":12.575,"official":null,"vs_official_pct":null}, {"ccy":"USD","buy":26.9268,"sell":27.0614,"mid":26.9941,"spread_pct":0.499,"official":26.939,"vs_official_pct":0.205} ], "disclaimer": "…", "attribution": { … } } ``` One currency, with the row fields at the top level: ``` curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hn/lafisehn?ccy=USD" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" ``` ``` { "bank": "lafisehn", "name": "Banco LAFISE Honduras", "country": "hn", "quote_ccy": "HNL", "bank_updated_at": "2026-11-15", "basis": "Buy / sell", "captured_at": "2026-11-15T11:30:44.916Z", "ccy": "USD", "buy": 26.9268, "sell": 27.0614, "mid": 26.9941, "spread_pct": 0.499, "official": 26.939, "vs_official_pct": 0.205, "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 Banco LAFISE Honduras on its own website, collected by AllRatesToday", "bank_url": "https://www.lafise.com/blh/", "url": "https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/hn/lafisehn/", "terms": "Public pages that show the rates need a visible link to allratestoday.com" } } ``` The board as it stood on a past day: ``` curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hn/lafisehn?date=2026-11-14" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" ``` One currency over a date range, one row per day (paid plans; add `&format=csv`, `xml` or `xlsx` for a file): ``` curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hn/lafisehn/history?ccy=USD&from=2026-11-14&to=2026-11-15" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" ``` ## JavaScript ``` npm install @allratestoday/sdk ``` ``` import { AllRatesToday } from '@allratestoday/sdk'; const client = new AllRatesToday({ apiKey: 'art_live_your_key' }); // Banco LAFISE Honduras's USD row const r = await client.bankRates('hn', { bank: 'lafisehn', ccy: 'USD' }); console.log(`LAFISE buys USD at ${r.buy}, sells at ${r.sell} HNL`); // The board as it stood on a past day const past = await client.bankRates('hn', { bank: 'lafisehn', date: '2026-11-14' }); console.log(past.snapshot_date, past.rates.length); ``` ## Python ``` import requests r = requests.get( "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hn/lafisehn", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer art_live_your_key"}, timeout=10, ) r.raise_for_status() for row in r.json()["rates"]: print(row["ccy"], row["buy"], row["sell"], row["spread_pct"]) ``` ## Board rate or official rate? The Banco Central de Honduras rate is the one tax, accounting and customs rules in Honduras name; nobody transacts at it. LAFISE's board is the price a customer actually gets. The API puts both on every row: `official` is the central bank's rate for the same currency and `vs_official_pct` is how far the bank's mid sits from it. Use the board to show customers a real price, compare banks for a remittance, or keep a dated record of what the bank quoted; use the [Banco Central de Honduras endpoint](https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/bch/) when a rule asks for the official rate. ## FAQ ### Where do the Banco LAFISE Honduras rates come from? From the bank's own public rates page (https://www.lafise.com/blh/), read hourly. AllRatesToday does not change the numbers: each row is the buy and sell price LAFISE shows, with the mid, the spread and the Banco Central de Honduras rate added. ### Are these the official HNL exchange rates? No. They are LAFISE's retail prices for customers. The official rate in Honduras is the Banco Central de Honduras rate, which the API returns as `official` on each row where the central bank has one, and in full from the central-bank endpoint. ### How often is the LAFISE board updated? AllRatesToday reads the page every hour. The bank's own last-updated stamp is returned as `bank_updated_at`, so you can tell a fresh read of an unchanged board from a new board. ### Can I get LAFISE rates for a past date? Yes, from 14 November 2026 onward; every day's board is kept permanently. Add `?date=YYYY-MM-DD` for one day: the response is the board captured that day, or the nearest earlier day within five days, with `date_requested` and `snapshot_date` added. For a range, `/history?ccy=USD&from=…&to=…` returns one row per day as JSON, CSV, XML or XLSX on paid plans. ### Do I need an API key? Yes. Commercial bank boards need an API key; any plan works, the free key included, and each call counts against the plan. Public pages or widgets that show the rates need a visible link to allratestoday.com. ## Banco LAFISE Honduras rates, as JSON Free API key, hourly board captures, the official rate alongside. [Get your free API key](https://allratestoday.com/register/) ## Related - [Banco LAFISE Honduras live board rates](https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/hn/lafisehn/) - [All banks in Honduras side by side](https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/hn/) - [Banco Central de Honduras official rates API](https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/bch/) - [Banco Ficohsa Honduras exchange rate API guide](https://allratestoday.com/blog/banco-ficohsa-honduras-exchange-rate-api/) - [Banco de Occidente (Honduras) exchange rate API guide](https://allratestoday.com/blog/banco-de-occidente-honduras-exchange-rate-api/) - [Banrural Honduras exchange rate API guide](https://allratestoday.com/blog/banrural-honduras-exchange-rate-api/) - [Banco Atlántida exchange rate API guide](https://allratestoday.com/blog/banco-atlantida-exchange-rate-api/) - [Every bank exchange rate API guide, by country](https://allratestoday.com/blog/bank-exchange-rate-api-guides/) - [Commercial bank rates API: every bank and country](https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/)