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South African Reserve Bank Exchange Rates

Official foreign-exchange reference rates published by South African Reserve Bank, the central bank of South Africa. Parfeed sources SARB's 4 ZAR 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

ZAR

Currency pairs

4

Region

Africa

Country

South Africa

Currency pairs published by SARB

South African Reserve Bank publishes official ZAR reference rates for the 4 currency pairs below, last updated 2026-06-08. Live rate values are available through the API on a paid plan that includes SARBsee pricing.

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

USDUSD/ZAR
US Dollar
EUREUR/ZAR
Euro
GBPGBP/ZAR
British Pound Sterling
JPYJPY/ZAR
Japanese Yen

Access SARB rates via API

Pull South African Reserve Bank's rates programmatically from the Parfeed exchange rate API:

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

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

Bank holidays 2026

12 non-publishing days

South African Reserve Bank does not publish exchange rates on these days. Rates roll over to the previous business day.

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Holiday Estimated date+ 1 date-varies holiday (see list below)
JAN1

New Year's Day

Thursday, Jan 1

MAR21

Human Rights Day

Saturday, Mar 21

APR3

Good Friday

Friday, Apr 3

APR27

Freedom Day

Monday, Apr 27

MAY1

Workers' Day

Friday, May 1

JUN16

Youth Day

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Tuesday, Jun 16

AUG9

National Women's Day

Sunday, Aug 9

SEP24

Heritage Day

Thursday, Sep 24

DEC16

Day of Reconciliation

Wednesday, Dec 16

DEC25

Christmas Day

Friday, Dec 25

DEC26

Day of Goodwill

Saturday, Dec 26

Family Day

Easter Monday

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South African Reserve Bank Exchange Rates (SARB) — Official ZAR Rates | Parfeed