People's Bank of China (CFETS) Exchange Rate API

Official People's Bank of China (CFETS) (China) daily exchange rates as JSON: 25 currencies, history back to 2006. The published CNY rates required for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

People's Bank of China (CFETS) official daily exchange rates as JSON: 25 currencies against the CNY, history back to 2006. Latest table on every plan. Get your API key.

About People's Bank of China (CFETS)

The People's Bank of China is China's central bank. Each trading day at 09:15 Beijing time the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) publishes the RMB central parity rate — the official midpoint around which onshore yuan trading is allowed to move.

• Official website: www.pbc.gov.cn
• Official rate publication: CFETS RMB central parity rates

Quick start

One request for the pair you need — USD to CNY at the official People's Bank of China (CFETS) rate:

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

Or the bank's full published table:

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

Latest published rates (2026-08-11)

The most recent table as published by People's Bank of China (CFETS) — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are CNY per 1 unit of each currency:

Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV (free account required)

Base	Quote	Type	Rate
AUD	CNY	reference	4.7764
CAD	CNY	reference	4.855
CHF	CNY	reference	8.3617
CNY	AED	reference	0.54271
CNY	DKK	reference	0.9566
CNY	HUF	reference	46.5694
CNY	KRW	reference	209.59
CNY	MOP	reference	1.1906
CNY	MXN	reference	2.528
CNY	MYR	reference	0.60365
CNY	NOK	reference	1.4028
CNY	PLN	reference	0.54988
CNY	RUB	reference	12.2302
CNY	SAR	reference	0.55483
CNY	SEK	reference	1.4026
CNY	THB	reference	4.881
CNY	TRY	reference	7.04728
CNY	ZAR	reference	2.3896
EUR	CNY	reference	7.8153
GBP	CNY	reference	9.1456
HKD	CNY	reference	0.8655
JPY	CNY	reference	0.042567
NZD	CNY	reference	3.9828
SGD	CNY	reference	5.2876
USD	CNY	reference	6.79

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

npm install pboc-exchange-rate

import { getRate } from 'pboc-exchange-rate';

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'CNY', { 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.

Why use the official People's Bank of China (CFETS) rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in China and beyond typically require the official rate published by People's Bank of China (CFETS) 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.

Pairs the bank doesn't print directly are resolved from its table (inverse or cross via CNY) and explicitly flagged "derived": true — so what the bank printed and what was computed are never confused.

Endpoints

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

Is there an API for People's Bank of China (CFETS) exchange rates?

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

How often are the rates updated?

People's Bank of China (CFETS) publishes once per business day; the API ingests each new table shortly after publication (latest: 2026-08-11).

Are these the official rates?

Yes — ingested from People's Bank of China (CFETS)'s own published data, served unmodified with the bank's publication date. Anything computed rather than published is flagged derived.

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