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 NBE — see pricing.
Rates are quoted directly — the price of one unit of each currency in ETB (1 foreign = X ETB).
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 daysNational Bank of Ethiopia does not publish exchange rates on these days. Rates roll over to the previous business day.
Ethiopian Christmas
Wednesday, Jan 7
Ethiopian Epiphany
Monday, Jan 19
Adwa Victory Day
Monday, Mar 2
International Women's Day
Sunday, Mar 8
Eid al-Fitr
Friday, Mar 20
Good Friday
Friday, Apr 3
Labour Day
Friday, May 1
Patriots' Victory Day
Tuesday, May 5
Eid al-Adha
Wednesday, May 27
Downfall of the Derg
Thursday, May 28
Prophet's Birthday
nextTuesday, Aug 25
Ethiopian New Year
Friday, Sep 11
Meskel
Sunday, Sep 27
Ethiopian Easter
Apr/May, date varies
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