Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Exchange Rates Today & Official API

Official Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe rates for 23 Oct 2026: 1 USD = 25.913 ZWG, 1 EUR = 29.049 ZWG. All 10 currencies published, history back to 2024. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer

Zimbabwe flagReserve Bank of Zimbabwe publishes official daily exchange rates — 10 currencies against the ZWG — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 2024. The latest table is on every plan. Get your API key.

About Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe publishes the interbank exchange rate for the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) each business morning: bid, ask and mid rates in ZiG per unit for the US dollar, the rand and some 30 other currencies, plus gold. The ZiG replaced the Zimbabwe dollar in April 2024 and is managed against the bank's gold and foreign-currency reserves, and the RBZ interbank mid-rate is the official reference Zimbabwean banks, customs and the revenue authority use; our archive starts on the currency's first day, 8 April 2024.

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One request for the pair you need — USD to ZWG at the official Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe rate:

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

What comes back — a real response built from the table in force (2026-10-23):

{
  "bank": "rbz",
  "name": "Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-23",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "ZWG",
  "rate": 25.9131,
  "rate_type": "buy",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "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/rbz/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "rbz",
  "name": "Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe",
  "rate_date": "2026-10-23",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"AUD","quote":"ZWG","type":"buy","value":18.1547},
    {"base":"AUD","quote":"ZWG","type":"middle","value":18.6229},
    {"base":"AUD","quote":"ZWG","type":"sell","value":19.0911},
    {"base":"BWP","quote":"ZWG","type":"buy","value":1.8113},
    … 25 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/rbz/history?source=USD&target=ZWG&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-10-23)

The most recent table as published by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are ZWG 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
AUD ZWG buy 18.1547
AUD ZWG middle 18.6229
AUD ZWG sell 19.0911
BWP ZWG buy 1.8113
BWP ZWG middle 1.87
BWP ZWG sell 1.9287
CHF ZWG buy 31.5359
CHF ZWG middle 32.3506
CHF ZWG sell 33.1652
EUR ZWG buy 29.0485
EUR ZWG middle 29.7947
EUR ZWG sell 30.5408
GBP ZWG buy 34.6846
GBP ZWG middle 35.5835
GBP ZWG sell 36.4823
NZD ZWG buy 14.7445
NZD ZWG middle 15.1267
NZD ZWG sell 15.5088
USD ZWG buy 25.9131
USD ZWG middle 26.5775
USD ZWG sell 27.2419
XAU ZWG buy 103937.1564
XAU ZWG middle 106613.2566
XAU ZWG sell 109289.3568
XDR ZWG buy 36.0385
XDR ZWG middle 36.0385
XDR ZWG sell 36.0385
ZMW ZWG buy 0.7359
ZMW ZWG sell 0.7756

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

npm install reserve-bank-of-zimbabwe-exchange-rate
import { getRate } from 'reserve-bank-of-zimbabwe-exchange-rate';

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'ZWG', { 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: reserve-bank-of-zimbabwe-exchange-rate documentation.

Why use the official Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe rate?

Live market rates move continuously, but tax filings, customs declarations, audits, and statutory accounting in Zimbabwe and beyond typically require the official rate published by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe 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 ZWG) and explicitly flagged "derived": true — so what the bank printed and what was computed are never confused.

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 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe exchange rates via an API?

Yes — this API serves the bank's official daily ZWG rates as JSON, and the latest table is on every plan, free included.

When do new rates appear here?

Once per business day, per Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-10-23).

Are these the official rates?

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

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe rates, one API key

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