People's Bank of China Exchange Rates
Official foreign-exchange reference rates published by People's Bank of China, the central bank of China. Parfeed sources PBOC's 25 CNY 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
CNY
Currency pairs
25
Region
Asia-Pacific
Country
China
Currency pairs published by PBOC
People's Bank of China publishes official CNY reference rates for the 25 currency pairs below, last updated 2026-06-08. Live rate values are available through the API on a paid plan that includes PBOC — see pricing.
This bank uses a mix: 10 pairs quoted directly (1 foreign = X CNY) and 15 quoted indirectly (1 CNY = X foreign), tagged indirect below.
Access PBOC rates via API
Pull People's Bank of China's rates programmatically from the Parfeed exchange rate API:
curl "https://api.parfeed.com/v1/rates?bank=PBOC" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY"
See the full API documentation. PBOC is available on Pro and higher.
Bank holidays 2026
7 non-publishing daysPeople's Bank of China does not publish exchange rates on these days. Rates roll over to the previous business day.
New Year's Day
Thursday, Jan 1
Spring Festival / Chinese New Year - 7 days
Tuesday, Feb 17
Qingming Festival
Saturday, Apr 4
Labour Day
Friday, May 1
Dragon Boat Festival
nextFriday, Jun 19
Mid-Autumn Festival
Friday, Sep 25
National Day / Golden Week
Thursday, Oct 1
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