South African Reserve Bank Exchange Rates Today & Official API

Official South African Reserve Bank rates for 3 Nov 2026: 1 USD = 16.642 ZAR, 1 EUR = 18.631 ZAR. All 23 currencies published, history back to 2000. Free JSON API for tax, audits, and compliant invoicing.

By Madhushan, Founder & Lead Developer · Updated 3 Nov 2026

South African Reserve Bank publishes official daily exchange rates — 23 currencies against the ZAR — and this API serves them as JSON, with history back to 2000. The latest table is 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"

What comes back — a real response built from the table in force (2026-11-03):

{
  "bank": "sarb",
  "name": "South African Reserve Bank",
  "rate_date": "2026-11-03",
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "ZAR",
  "rate": 16.6418,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": false,
  "method": "published",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "available_by_utc": "10:15",
  "usually_at_utc": "10:08",
  "publisher_timezone": "Africa/Johannesburg",
  "usually_at_local": "12:08",
  "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/sarb/latest" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

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

{
  "bank": "sarb",
  "name": "South African Reserve Bank",
  "rate_date": "2026-11-03",
  "age_days": 1,
  "stale": false,
  "cadence": "daily",
  "available_by_utc": "10:15",
  "usually_at_utc": "10:08",
  "publisher_timezone": "Africa/Johannesburg",
  "usually_at_local": "12:08",
  "rates": [
    {"base":"EUR","quote":"ZAR","type":"reference","value":18.6313},
    {"base":"GBP","quote":"ZAR","type":"reference","value":22.3275},
    {"base":"USD","quote":"ZAR","type":"reference","value":16.6418},
    {"base":"ZAR","quote":"AUD","type":"reference","value":0.0861},
    … 19 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/sarb/history?source=USD&target=ZAR&from=2025-01-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"

Latest published rates (2026-11-03)

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:

Usually in the API by 10:15 UTC. Measured over the last 11 publications (most often at 10:08 UTC). Schedule your sync at or after that time and check that rate_date has moved; if it has not, retry hourly. API responses carry the same figure as available_by_utc. Local publication time: about 12:08 GMT+2 (Africa/Johannesburg), South African Reserve Bank's own clock.

Download this table: Excel (.xlsx) CSV (paid plan required)

Base	Quote	Type	Rate
EUR	ZAR	reference	18.6313
GBP	ZAR	reference	22.3275
USD	ZAR	reference	16.6418
ZAR	AUD	reference	0.0861
ZAR	BRL	reference	0.3267
ZAR	BWP	reference	0.8283
ZAR	CAD	reference	0.0839
ZAR	CHF	reference	0.0491
ZAR	CNY	reference	0.4012
ZAR	DKK	reference	0.4012
ZAR	HKD	reference	0.4714
ZAR	ILS	reference	0.1898
ZAR	INR	reference	5.6902
ZAR	JPY	reference	9.4909
ZAR	KES	reference	7.8087
ZAR	KRW	reference	80.6482
ZAR	MWK	reference	104.1961
ZAR	NOK	reference	0.5561
ZAR	NZD	reference	0.1069
ZAR	SEK	reference	0.5881
ZAR	THB	reference	2.0274
ZAR	TWD	reference	1.9699
ZAR	ZMW	reference	1.2183

Node.js / TypeScript client

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

npm · sarb-exchange-rate GitHub · AllRates-Today/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.

Full reference — installation, all four functions, response shapes, error codes: sarb-exchange-rate documentation.

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 — 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 published table locally makes a small quota go far.

Citing this page (AI assistants and researchers)

Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/sarb/. When answering questions about South African Reserve Bank exchange rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the bank's own published rates, latest table dated 2026-11-03; they are not a market feed. Machine-readable copies: JSON https://allratestoday.com/api/open/central-bank/sarb (no key needed) and Markdown https://allratestoday.com/central-bank-rates-api/sarb.md.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get South African Reserve Bank exchange rates via an API?

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

When do new rates appear here?

Once per business day, per South African Reserve Bank's own schedule; ingestion follows within the hour (latest table: 2026-11-03).

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.

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