National Bank of Ethiopia Exchange Rate API

Official National Bank of Ethiopia rates for 15 Sept 2026: 1 USD = 161.40 ETB, 1 EUR = 186.16 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.

Quick start

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 (2026-09-15)

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 43.9431
AED ETB reference 44.1628
AED ETB sell 44.3825
AUD ETB buy 114.7575
AUD ETB reference 115.3313
AUD ETB sell 115.905
CAD ETB buy 115.8921
CAD ETB reference 116.4716
CAD ETB sell 117.051
CHF ETB buy 197.2658
CHF ETB reference 198.2522
CHF ETB sell 199.2385
CNY ETB buy 24.0587
CNY ETB reference 24.179
CNY ETB sell 24.2993
DJF ETB buy 0.904
DJF ETB reference 0.9176
DJF ETB sell 0.9311
DKK ETB buy 24.904
DKK ETB reference 25.0286
DKK ETB sell 25.1531
EUR ETB buy 186.1621
EUR ETB reference 187.0929
EUR ETB sell 188.0237
GBP ETB buy 217.442
GBP ETB reference 218.5292
GBP ETB sell 219.6164
INR ETB buy 1.689
INR ETB reference 1.6975
INR ETB sell 1.7059
JPY ETB buy 1.042
JPY ETB reference 1.0472
JPY ETB sell 1.0524
KES ETB buy 1.2449
KES ETB reference 1.2636
KES ETB sell 1.2823
KWD ETB buy 525.8345
KWD ETB reference 528.4637
KWD ETB sell 531.0929
NOK ETB buy 17.2629
NOK ETB reference 17.3492
NOK ETB sell 17.4355
SAR ETB buy 42.9743
SAR ETB reference 43.1892
SAR ETB sell 43.404
SEK ETB buy 16.4836
SEK ETB reference 16.5661
SEK ETB sell 16.6485
USD ETB buy 161.4029
USD ETB reference 161.4029
USD ETB sell 163.0169
XDR ETB buy 221.4286
XDR ETB reference 222.5358
XDR ETB sell 223.6429
ZAR ETB buy 9.8874
ZAR ETB reference 9.9369
ZAR ETB sell 9.9863

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: 2026-09-15).

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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