CBKAfrica

Central Bank of Kenya Exchange Rates

Official foreign-exchange reference rates published by Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank of Kenya. Parfeed sources CBK's 21 KES currency pairs directly from the bank and delivers them through one clean REST API — updated every business day, traceable to the official source.

Home currency

KES

Currency pairs

Region

Africa

Country

Kenya

Currency pairs published by CBK

Central Bank of Kenya publishes official KES reference rates for the 21 currency pairs below, last updated 2026-06-08. Live rate values are available through the API on a paid plan that includes CBK — see pricing.

This bank uses a mix: 17 pairs quoted directly (1 foreign = X KES) and 4 quoted indirectly (1 KES = X foreign), tagged indirect below.

USDUSD/KES

US Dollar

EUREUR/KES

Euro

GBPGBP/KES

British Pound Sterling

JPYJPY/KES

Japanese Yen

CHFCHF/KES

Swiss Franc

CNYCNY/KES

Chinese Yuan

AUDAUD/KES

Australian Dollar

CADCAD/KES

Canadian Dollar

HKDHKD/KES

Hong Kong Dollar

SGDSGD/KES

Singapore Dollar

AEDAED/KES

UAE Dirham

BIFKES/BIF

Burundian Francindirect

DKKDKK/KES

Danish Krone

INRINR/KES

Indian Rupee

NOKNOK/KES

Norwegian Krone

RWFKES/RWF

Rwandan Francindirect

SARSAR/KES

Saudi Riyal

SEKSEK/KES

Swedish Krona

TZSKES/TZS

Tanzanian Shillingindirect

UGXKES/UGX

Ugandan Shillingindirect

ZARZAR/KES

South African Rand

Access CBK rates via API

Pull Central Bank of Kenya's rates programmatically from the Parfeed exchange rate API:

curl "https://api.parfeed.com/v1/rates?bank=CBK" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY"

See the full API documentation. CBK is available on Pro and higher.

Bank holidays 2026

11 non-publishing days

Central Bank of Kenya does not publish exchange rates on these days. Rates roll over to the previous business day.

January