Central Bank of Barbados Exchange Rate API
Official Central Bank of Barbados (Barbados) daily exchange rates. All dozens of currencies published. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.
About Central Bank of Barbados
The Central Bank of Barbados publishes daily buying and selling rates for the US dollar, pound sterling, euro, Canadian dollar and the neighbouring Caribbean currencies, in Barbados dollars per unit. The Barbados dollar is pegged at two to the US dollar, so the table is mostly about the cross rates — and the bank's archive runs back to 2010.
- Official website: www.centralbank.org.bb
- Official rate publication: Exchange rates
Quick start
One request for the pair you need — USD to BBD at the official Central Bank of Barbados rate:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/cbbd/latest?source=USD&target=BBD" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Or the bank's full published table:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/cbbd/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/cbbd/history?source=USD&target=BBD&from=2025-01-01" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key" Node.js / TypeScript client
A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — central-bank-of-barbados-exchange-rate:
npm install central-bank-of-barbados-exchange-rate import { getRate } from 'central-bank-of-barbados-exchange-rate';
const pair = await getRate('USD', 'BBD', { 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: central-bank-of-barbados-exchange-rate documentation.
Why use the official Central Bank of Barbados rate?
A market rate is a moving target; the rate Central Bank of Barbados publishes is a fixed, citable figure that stays put once printed — which is why invoicing, customs, audit evidence, and statutory accounting in Barbados lean on it rather than on a live feed. Every response from this API carries the bank's own rate_date, and on days with no publication you get the most recent published table — the one compliance rules tell 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 BBD) and marks it "derived": true — published and computed values are never silently mixed.
Endpoints
GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbbd/latest— latest table or single pair (all plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbbd/{YYYY-MM-DD}— the table for any date (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbbd/history— time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbbd/availability— publication calendar: the dates the bank actually published (all plans)
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
Does an exchange rate API exist for Central Bank of Barbados data?
Yes. This endpoint returns Central Bank of Barbados's official daily figures as JSON; the newest table is free on every plan.
How often are the rates updated?
Central Bank of Barbados publishes once per business day; the API ingests each new table shortly after publication.
Are these really Central Bank of Barbados's official figures?
Yes. Every value comes from Central Bank of Barbados's own publication and is served unmodified, carrying the bank's publication date; computed pairs are explicitly flagged derived.
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