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Central Bank of Nigeria Exchange Rates

Official foreign-exchange reference rates published by Central Bank of Nigeria, the central bank of Nigeria. Parfeed sources CBN's 11 NGN 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

NGN

Currency pairs

Region

Africa

Country

Nigeria

Currency pairs published by CBN

Central Bank of Nigeria publishes official NGN reference rates for the 11 currency pairs below, last updated 2026-06-08. Live rate values are available through the API on a paid plan that includes CBN — see pricing.

Rates are quoted directly — the price of one unit of each currency in NGN (1 foreign = X NGN).

USDUSD/NGN

US Dollar

EUREUR/NGN

Euro

GBPGBP/NGN

British Pound Sterling

JPYJPY/NGN

Japanese Yen

CHFCHF/NGN

Swiss Franc

CNYCNY/NGN

Chinese Yuan

AEDAED/NGN

UAE Dirham

DKKDKK/NGN

Danish Krone

SARSAR/NGN

Saudi Riyal

XOFXOF/NGN

West African CFA Franc

ZARZAR/NGN

South African Rand

Access CBN rates via API

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

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

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

Bank holidays 2026

11 non-publishing days

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

January