South African Reserve Bank Exchange Rate API

Official South African Reserve Bank (South Africa) daily exchange rates as JSON: 23 currencies, history back to 2000. The published ZAR rates required for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

South African Reserve Bank official daily exchange rates as JSON: 23 currencies against the ZAR, history back to 2000. Latest table on every plan. Get your API key.

About South African Reserve Bank

The South African Reserve Bank publishes daily weighted-average exchange rates for the rand — computed from the banks' foreign exchange transactions at around 10:30 SAST — covering more than 20 currencies including major African crosses.

• Official website: www.resbank.co.za
• Official rate publication: Selected historical exchange rates

Quick start

One request for the pair you need — USD to ZAR at the official South African Reserve Bank rate:

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

Or the bank's full published table:

curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/sarb/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

On paid plans, any historical date or a daily time series:

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

Latest published rates (2026-08-05)

The most recent table as published by South African Reserve Bank — exactly what the /latest endpoint returns right now. Values are ZAR per 1 unit of each currency:

Base	Quote	Type	Rate
EUR	ZAR	reference	18.9201
GBP	ZAR	reference	22.0748
USD	ZAR	reference	16.3924
ZAR	AUD	reference	0.0866
ZAR	BRL	reference	0.3128
ZAR	BWP	reference	0.8249
ZAR	CAD	reference	0.0858
ZAR	CHF	reference	0.0494
ZAR	CNY	reference	0.4117
ZAR	DKK	reference	0.3951
ZAR	HKD	reference	0.4785
ZAR	ILS	reference	0.1832
ZAR	INR	reference	5.8048
ZAR	JPY	reference	9.6276
ZAR	KES	reference	7.8927
ZAR	KRW	reference	86.9644
ZAR	MWK	reference	105.7814
ZAR	NOK	reference	0.5807
ZAR	NZD	reference	0.104
ZAR	SEK	reference	0.5812
ZAR	THB	reference	2.0256
ZAR	TWD	reference	1.9715
ZAR	ZMW	reference	1.1575

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

npm install sarb-exchange-rate

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

const pair = await getRate('USD', 'ZAR', { 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 South African Reserve Bank rate?

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

Endpoints

• GET /api/v1/central-bank/sarb/latest — latest table or single pair (all plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/sarb/{YYYY-MM-DD} — the table for any date (paid plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/sarb/history — daily time series, up to 5,000 rows (paid plans)
• GET /api/v1/central-bank/sarb/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 day's table locally makes a small quota go far.

Frequently asked questions

Is there an API for South African Reserve Bank exchange rates?

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

How often are the rates updated?

South African Reserve Bank publishes once per business day; the API ingests each new table shortly after publication (latest: 2026-08-05).

Are these the official rates?

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

Other central banks

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