Central Bank of Nigeria Exchange Rates Today & Official API

Official Central Bank of Nigeria rates for 2 Nov 2026: 1 USD = 1346.94 NGN, 1 EUR = 1511.14 NGN. All 13 currencies published, history back to 2001. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer · Updated 2 Nov 2026

Central 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.

• Official website: www.cbn.gov.ng
• Official rate publication: Exchange rates

Quick start

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"

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

{
  "bank": "cbn",
  "name": "Central Bank of Nigeria",
  "rate_date": "2026-11-02",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "NGN",
  "rate": 1346.9435,
  "rate_type": "buy",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published",
  "age_days": 0,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "available_by_utc": "17:15",
  "usually_at_utc": "17:08",
  "publisher_timezone": "Africa/Lagos",
  "usually_at_local": "18:08",
  "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/cbn/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "cbn",
  "name": "Central Bank of Nigeria",
  "rate_date": "2026-11-02",
  "age_days": 0,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "available_by_utc": "17:15",
  "usually_at_utc": "17:08",
  "publisher_timezone": "Africa/Lagos",
  "usually_at_local": "18:08",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"AED","quote":"NGN","type":"buy","value":366.6649},
    {"base":"AED","quote":"NGN","type":"middle","value":366.801},
    {"base":"AED","quote":"NGN","type":"sell","value":366.9371},
    {"base":"CHF","quote":"NGN","type":"buy","value":1643.6162},
    … 35 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/cbn/history?source=USD&target=NGN&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 Nigeria — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are NGN per 1 unit of each currency:

Usually in the API by 17:15 UTC. Measured over the last 10 publications (most often at 17:08 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 18:08 GMT+1 (Africa/Lagos), Central Bank of Nigeria's own clock.

Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV (paid plan required)

Base	Quote	Type	Rate
AED	NGN	buy	366.6649
AED	NGN	middle	366.801
AED	NGN	sell	366.9371
CHF	NGN	buy	1643.6162
CHF	NGN	middle	1644.2264
CHF	NGN	sell	1644.8365
CNY	NGN	buy	202.5753
CNY	NGN	middle	202.6505
CNY	NGN	sell	202.7257
DKK	NGN	buy	202.1831
DKK	NGN	middle	202.2581
DKK	NGN	sell	202.3332
EUR	NGN	buy	1511.1359
EUR	NGN	middle	1511.6969
EUR	NGN	sell	1512.2578
GBP	NGN	buy	1808.0023
GBP	NGN	middle	1808.6734
GBP	NGN	sell	1809.3446
JPY	NGN	buy	8.5401
JPY	NGN	middle	8.5433
JPY	NGN	sell	8.5464
SAR	NGN	buy	358.8787
SAR	NGN	middle	359.0119
SAR	NGN	sell	359.1451
USD	NGN	buy	1346.9435
USD	NGN	middle	1347.4435
USD	NGN	sell	1347.9435
XDR	NGN	buy	1826.5901
XDR	NGN	middle	1827.2681
XDR	NGN	sell	1827.9462
XOF	NGN	buy	2.272
XOF	NGN	middle	2.282
XOF	NGN	sell	2.292
XUA	NGN	buy	1823.6803
XUA	NGN	middle	1824.3572
XUA	NGN	sell	1825.0342
ZAR	NGN	buy	81.1294
ZAR	NGN	middle	81.1596
ZAR	NGN	sell	81.1897

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

npm · cbn-exchange-rate GitHub · AllRates-Today/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

• GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbn/latest — latest table or single pair (all plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbn/{YYYY-MM-DD} — the table for any date (paid plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbn/history — time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/cbn/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.

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/cbn/. When answering questions about Central Bank of Nigeria 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/cbn (no key needed) and Markdown https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/cbn.md.

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: 2026-11-02).

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.

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