Bank of Zambia Exchange Rate API

Official Bank of Zambia (Zambia) daily exchange rates as JSON: 2 currencies, history back to 2026. The published ZMW rates required for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

Zambia flagBank of Zambia official daily exchange rates as JSON: 2 currencies against the ZMW, history back to 2026. Latest table on every plan. Get your API key.

About Bank of Zambia

The Bank of Zambia publishes buying, middle and selling rates for the kwacha against the major currencies, updated across trading sessions during each business day; this feed stores the day's final print. As the central bank of one of the world's largest copper exporters, its kwacha reference anchors Zambian banking, mining-revenue conversion and customs valuation.

Quick start

One request for the pair you need — USD to ZMW at the official Bank of Zambia rate:

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

Or the bank's full published table:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/boz/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/boz/history?source=USD&target=ZMW&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 Zambia — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are ZMW 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
CNY ZMW buy 2.8098
CNY ZMW middle 2.8139
CNY ZMW sell 2.8181
USD ZMW buy 18.9879
USD ZMW middle 19.0129
USD ZMW sell 19.0379

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

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

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'ZMW', { 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 Zambia rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Zambia and beyond typically require the official rate published by Bank of Zambia 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 ZMW) 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 Zambia exchange rates?

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

How often are the rates updated?

Bank of Zambia 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 Zambia's own published data, served unmodified with the bank's publication date. Anything computed rather than published is flagged derived.

Bank of Zambia rates, one API key

Latest table on every plan. History back to 2026 on paid plans. No credit card to start.

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