National Bank of Ethiopia Exchange Rates Today & Official API

Official National Bank of Ethiopia rates for 5 Oct 2026: 1 USD = 160.92 ETB, 1 EUR = 180.86 ETB. All 19 currencies published, history back to 2024. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

Ethiopia flagNational Bank of Ethiopia official daily exchange rates as JSON: 19 currencies against the ETB, history back to 2024. Latest table on every plan. Get your API key.

About National Bank of Ethiopia

The National Bank of Ethiopia publishes daily indicative birr exchange rates — a weighted average of banks' actual foreign-exchange transactions from the previous day, plus buying and selling quotes, for 19 currencies. The series in this form starts in late September 2024, shortly after Ethiopia floated the birr in July 2024 — one of the most consequential African currency reforms of the decade.

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One request for the pair you need — USD to ETB at the official National Bank of Ethiopia rate:

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

Or the bank's full published table:

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

Latest published rates (2026-10-05)

Below is the current table from National Bank of Ethiopia, unmodified — what a call to /latest returns right now, with values ETB 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 ETB buy 43.8116
AED ETB reference 44.0307
AED ETB sell 44.2497
AUD ETB buy 111.6332
AUD ETB reference 112.1914
AUD ETB sell 112.7495
CAD ETB buy 112.969
CAD ETB reference 113.5339
CAD ETB sell 114.0987
CHF ETB buy 194.2123
CHF ETB reference 195.1834
CHF ETB sell 196.1544
CNY ETB buy 24.0021
CNY ETB reference 24.1221
CNY ETB sell 24.2421
DJF ETB buy 0.9013
DJF ETB reference 0.9148
DJF ETB sell 0.9283
DKK ETB buy 24.2002
DKK ETB reference 24.3212
DKK ETB sell 24.4422
EUR ETB buy 180.8628
EUR ETB reference 181.7671
EUR ETB sell 182.6714
GBP ETB buy 212.5971
GBP ETB reference 213.6601
GBP ETB sell 214.7231
INR ETB buy 1.6704
INR ETB reference 1.6788
INR ETB sell 1.6871
JPY ETB buy 1.0198
JPY ETB reference 1.0249
JPY ETB sell 1.03
KES ETB buy 1.2388
KES ETB reference 1.2574
KES ETB sell 1.276
KWD ETB buy 522.489
KWD ETB reference 525.1015
KWD ETB sell 527.7139
NOK ETB buy 16.6861
NOK ETB reference 16.7696
NOK ETB sell 16.853
SAR ETB buy 42.8606
SAR ETB reference 43.0749
SAR ETB sell 43.2892
SEK ETB buy 16.0097
SEK ETB reference 16.0898
SEK ETB sell 16.1698
USD ETB buy 160.9243
USD ETB reference 160.9243
USD ETB sell 162.5335
XDR ETB buy 218.1973
XDR ETB reference 219.2883
XDR ETB sell 220.3792
ZAR ETB buy 9.6251
ZAR ETB reference 9.6733
ZAR ETB sell 9.7214

Node.js / TypeScript client

A dedicated zero-dependency npm package wraps these endpoints — national-bank-of-ethiopia-exchange-rate:

npm install national-bank-of-ethiopia-exchange-rate
import { getRate } from 'national-bank-of-ethiopia-exchange-rate';

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'ETB', { 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: national-bank-of-ethiopia-exchange-rate documentation.

Why use the official National Bank of Ethiopia rate?

When an auditor or tax office in Ethiopia asks which rate you used, "the ETB mid-market rate at 14:32" is not an answer — the official rate published by National Bank of Ethiopia for that date is. This API returns exactly those published figures, stamped with the bank's own rate_date; on weekends and holidays the most recent published table is returned, as compliance rules expect.

If a pair isn't in the bank's published table, the API computes it from that table (inverse or cross via ETB) 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

Is there an API for National Bank of Ethiopia exchange rates?

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

How often does National Bank of Ethiopia update its rates?

New tables land once per business day — the API picks each one up shortly after National Bank of Ethiopia publishes it (latest: 2026-10-05).

Is this the official published table?

Yes — the rows are National Bank of Ethiopia's published figures, untouched, with the original publication date attached. Pairs the bank didn't print are computed and flagged derived.

National Bank of Ethiopia rates, one API key

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