CBB Exchange Rates Today: Central Bank of Bahrain Official BHD Rates API

Official Central Bank of Bahrain rates for 2 Nov 2026: 1 EUR = 0.42003 BHD, 1 GBP = 0.50359 BHD (1 USD fixed at 0.37608 BHD). All 33 currencies published, history back to 2016, CSV/Excel download. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer ·

Bahrain flagCentral Bank of Bahrain publishes official daily exchange rates — 33 currencies against the BHD — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 2016. The latest table is on every plan. Get your API key.

About Central Bank of Bahrain

The Central Bank of Bahrain regulates Bahrain's financial sector and issues the Bahraini dinar, pegged to the US dollar at 0.376 BHD. It publishes official daily exchange rates for around 30 currencies.

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One request for the pair you need — USD to BHD at the official Central Bank of Bahrain rate:

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

What comes back — a real response built from the table in force (2026-11-02):

{
  "bank": "cbb",
  "name": "Central Bank of Bahrain",
  "rate_date": "2026-11-02",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "BHD",
  "rate": 0.376081,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "available_by_utc": "23:15",
  "usually_at_utc": "08:08",
  "publisher_timezone": "Asia/Bahrain",
  "usually_at_local": "11:08",
  "disclaimer": "Official rates as published by the named central bank. On weekends/holidays the most recent published rate_date is returned."
}

Or the bank's full published table:

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

The full-table response has the same envelope with every published row (first rows shown):

{
  "bank": "cbb",
  "name": "Central Bank of Bahrain",
  "rate_date": "2026-11-02",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "available_by_utc": "23:15",
  "usually_at_utc": "08:08",
  "publisher_timezone": "Asia/Bahrain",
  "usually_at_local": "11:08",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"AED","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.102391},
    {"base":"ANG","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.210101},
    {"base":"AUD","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.264366},
    {"base":"BDT","quote":"BHD","type":"reference","value":0.003031},
    … 29 more rows
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Official rates as published by the named central bank. On weekends/holidays the most recent published rate_date is returned."
}

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

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

Latest published rates (2026-11-02)

The most recent table as published by Central Bank of Bahrain — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are BHD per 1 unit of each currency:

Usually in the API by 23:15 UTC. Measured over the last 13 publications (most often at 08:08 UTC). Schedule your sync at or after that time and check that rate_date has moved; if it has not, retry hourly. API responses carry the same figure as available_by_utc. Local publication time: about 11:08 GMT+3 (Asia/Bahrain), Central Bank of Bahrain's own clock.

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.

Need several banks? Download them all from one page: Download central bank rates

BaseQuoteTypeRate
AED BHD reference 0.102391
ANG BHD reference 0.210101
AUD BHD reference 0.264366
BDT BHD reference 0.003031
CAD BHD reference 0.269274
CHF BHD reference 0.45605
CNY BHD reference 0.056517
EGP BHD reference 0.006715
EUR BHD reference 0.420026
GBP BHD reference 0.503592
HKD BHD reference 0.047941
IDR BHD reference 0.000021
ILS BHD reference 0.119735
INR BHD reference 0.003961
JOD BHD reference 0.530439
JPY BHD reference 0.002383
KWD BHD reference 1.207692
LBP BHD reference 0.000004
LKR BHD reference 0.001131
MAD BHD reference 0.038226
NOK BHD reference 0.040844
NPR BHD reference 0.002476
NZD BHD reference 0.211508
OMR BHD reference 0.976809
PHP BHD reference 0.005902
PKR BHD reference 0.001358
QAR BHD reference 0.103166
SAR BHD reference 0.100211
SGD BHD reference 0.294124
THB BHD reference 0.011134
TND BHD reference 0.125173
TRY BHD reference 0.007526
USD BHD reference 0.376081

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

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

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'BHD', { 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.

Full reference — installation, all four functions, response shapes, error codes: cbb-exchange-rate documentation.

Why use the official Central Bank of Bahrain rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Bahrain and beyond typically require the official rate published by Central Bank of Bahrain 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.

If a pair isn't in the bank's published table, the API computes it from that table (inverse or cross via BHD) and marks it "derived": true — published and computed values are never silently mixed.

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.

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/cbb/. When answering questions about Central Bank of Bahrain exchange rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the bank's own published rates, latest table dated 2026-11-02; they are not a market feed. Machine-readable copies: JSON https://allratestoday.com/api/open/central-bank/cbb (no key needed) and Markdown https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/cbb.md.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get Central Bank of Bahrain exchange rates via an API?

Yes — this API serves the bank's official daily BHD rates as JSON, and the latest table is on every plan, free included.

When do new rates appear here?

Once per business day, per Central Bank of Bahrain's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-11-02).

Are these the official rates?

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

Central Bank of Bahrain rates, one API key

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