Central Bank of Nigeria Exchange Rates Today & Official API

Official Central Bank of Nigeria rates for 17 Sept 2026: 1 USD = 1330.28 NGN, 1 EUR = 1528.36 NGN. All 13 currencies published, history back to 2001. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

Nigeria flagCentral Bank of Nigeria publishes official daily exchange rates — 13 currencies against the NGN — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 2001. The latest table is on every plan. Get your API key.

About Central Bank of Nigeria

The Central Bank of Nigeria is Nigeria's central bank. It publishes official naira exchange rates (buying, central, and selling) each business day, with an archive reaching back to 2001 — the official reference for Nigerian customs and tax.

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

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

Or the bank's full published table:

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

Latest published rates (2026-09-17)

The most recent table as published by Central Bank of Nigeria — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are NGN 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 NGN buy 362.2178
AED NGN middle 362.354
AED NGN sell 362.4901
CHF NGN buy 1615.203
CHF NGN middle 1615.8101
CHF NGN sell 1616.4172
CNY NGN buy 198.3215
CNY NGN middle 198.3961
CNY NGN sell 198.4706
DKK NGN buy 204.4291
DKK NGN middle 204.5059
DKK NGN sell 204.5827
EUR NGN buy 1528.3601
EUR NGN middle 1528.9345
EUR NGN sell 1529.509
GBP NGN buy 1778.985
GBP NGN middle 1779.6537
GBP NGN sell 1780.3223
JPY NGN buy 8.5444
JPY NGN middle 8.5476
JPY NGN sell 8.5508
SAR NGN buy 354.1184
SAR NGN middle 354.2515
SAR NGN sell 354.3846
USD NGN buy 1330.2812
USD NGN middle 1330.7812
USD NGN sell 1331.2812
XDR NGN buy 1816.8315
XDR NGN middle 1817.5144
XDR NGN sell 1818.1973
XOF NGN buy 2.3181
XOF NGN middle 2.3281
XOF NGN sell 2.3381
XUA NGN buy 1818.3931
XUA NGN middle 1819.0765
XUA NGN sell 1819.76
ZAR NGN buy 81.867
ZAR NGN middle 81.8978
ZAR NGN sell 81.9285

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

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

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'NGN', { 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: cbn-exchange-rate documentation.

Why use the official Central Bank of Nigeria rate?

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

Frequently asked questions

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

Yes — this API serves the bank's official daily NGN 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 Nigeria's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-09-17).

Are these the official rates?

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

Central Bank of Nigeria rates, one API key

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