NBEAfrica

National Bank of Ethiopia Exchange Rates

Official foreign-exchange reference rates published by National Bank of Ethiopia, the central bank of Ethiopia. Parfeed sources NBE's 18 ETB 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

ETB

Currency pairs

18

Region

Africa

Country

Ethiopia

Currency pairs published by NBE

National Bank of Ethiopia publishes official ETB reference rates for the 18 currency pairs below, last updated 2026-06-08. Live rate values are available through the API on a paid plan that includes NBEsee pricing.

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

USDUSD/ETB
US Dollar
EUREUR/ETB
Euro
GBPGBP/ETB
British Pound Sterling
JPYJPY/ETB
Japanese Yen
CHFCHF/ETB
Swiss Franc
CNYCNY/ETB
Chinese Yuan
AUDAUD/ETB
Australian Dollar
CADCAD/ETB
Canadian Dollar
AEDAED/ETB
UAE Dirham
DJFDJF/ETB
Djiboutian Franc
DKKDKK/ETB
Danish Krone
INRINR/ETB
Indian Rupee
KESKES/ETB
Kenyan Shilling
KWDKWD/ETB
Kuwaiti Dinar
NOKNOK/ETB
Norwegian Krone
SARSAR/ETB
Saudi Riyal
SEKSEK/ETB
Swedish Krona
ZARZAR/ETB
South African Rand

Access NBE rates via API

Pull National Bank of Ethiopia's rates programmatically from the Parfeed exchange rate API:

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

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

Bank holidays 2026

14 non-publishing days

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

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June
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July
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October
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Holiday Estimated date+ 1 date-varies holiday (see list below)
JAN7

Ethiopian Christmas

Wednesday, Jan 7

JAN19

Ethiopian Epiphany

Monday, Jan 19

MAR2

Adwa Victory Day

Monday, Mar 2

MAR8

International Women's Day

Sunday, Mar 8

MAR20

Eid al-Fitr

Friday, Mar 20

APR3

Good Friday

Friday, Apr 3

MAY1

Labour Day

Friday, May 1

MAY5

Patriots' Victory Day

Tuesday, May 5

MAY27

Eid al-Adha

Wednesday, May 27

MAY28

Downfall of the Derg

Thursday, May 28

AUG25

Prophet's Birthday

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Tuesday, Aug 25

SEP11

Ethiopian New Year

Friday, Sep 11

SEP27

Meskel

Sunday, Sep 27

Ethiopian Easter

Apr/May, date varies

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