Bank of Central African States (BEAC) Exchange Rate API

Official Bank of Central African States (BEAC) (Central Africa (CEMAC)) daily exchange rates as JSON: 13 currencies. The published XAF rates required for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

Central Africa (CEMAC) flagBank of Central African States (BEAC) official daily exchange rates as JSON: 13 currencies against the XAF. Latest table on every plan. Get your API key.

About Bank of Central African States (BEAC)

The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) is the central bank of the six CEMAC countries — Cameroon, Gabon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic — which share the Central African CFA franc. It publishes daily indicative buying and selling rates for 13 currencies; the franc itself is pegged to the euro at 655.957, unchanged since 1999.

Quick start

One request for the pair you need — USD to XAF at the official Bank of Central African States (BEAC) rate:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/beac/latest?source=USD&target=XAF" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Or the bank's full published table:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/beac/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

On paid plans, any historical date or a time series:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/beac/history?source=USD&target=XAF&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-08-24)

The most recent table as published by Bank of Central African States (BEAC) — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are XAF per 1 unit of each currency:

Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV

Download history:
Choose currencies: USD
Excel (.xlsx) CSV

One row per currency per publication date. Up to one year per download. Billed as one API call per currency per month of data.

BaseQuoteTypeRate
AED XAF buy 152.2279
AED XAF sell 153.7615
CAD XAF buy 404.3523
CAD XAF sell 408.4414
CHF XAF buy 697.655
CHF XAF sell 704.7269
CNY XAF buy 83.1521
CNY XAF sell 84.0049
DKK XAF buy 87.3065
DKK XAF sell 88.1863
EUR XAF buy 655.957
EUR XAF sell 655.957
GBP XAF buy 762.8387
GBP XAF sell 770.5775
JPY XAF buy 3.5145
JPY XAF sell 3.55
MAD XAF buy 60.4225
MAD XAF sell 61.0541
SAR XAF buy 148.8975
SAR XAF sell 150.4214
SEK XAF buy 59.0001
SEK XAF sell 59.6022
USD XAF buy 557.534
USD XAF sell 562.3246
ZAR XAF buy 34.9556
ZAR XAF sell 35.3228

Node.js / TypeScript client

A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — beac-exchange-rate:

npm install beac-exchange-rate
import { getRate } from 'beac-exchange-rate';

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'XAF', { apiKey: 'art_live_...' });
console.log(pair.rate, pair.rate_date);

Zero dependencies, TypeScript types included, and it runs anywhere fetch exists — Node 18+, Bun, Deno, and edge runtimes.

Why use the official Bank of Central African States (BEAC) rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Central Africa (CEMAC) and beyond typically require the official rate published by Bank of Central African States (BEAC) for a given date — a fixed, citable number that never changes after publication. This API serves those published tables with the bank's own rate_date on every response; weekends and holidays return the most recent published date, which is the rate compliance rules require you to apply.

Pairs the bank doesn't print directly are resolved from its table (inverse or cross via XAF) and explicitly flagged "derived": true — so what the bank printed and what was computed are never confused.

Endpoints

Full parameter reference in the API documentation. Every request counts toward your plan's monthly quota — rates change once per business day, so caching a published table locally makes a small quota go far.

Frequently asked questions

Is there an API for Bank of Central African States (BEAC) exchange rates?

Yes — this one. Official daily XAF rates as clean JSON, latest table on every plan including free.

How often are the rates updated?

Bank of Central African States (BEAC) publishes once per business day; the API ingests each new table shortly after publication (latest: 2026-08-24).

Are these the official rates?

Yes — ingested from Bank of Central African States (BEAC)'s own published data, served unmodified with the bank's publication date. Anything computed rather than published is flagged derived.

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