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 SARB — see pricing.
Rates are quoted directly — the price of one unit of each currency in ZAR (1 foreign = X ZAR).
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 daysSouth African Reserve Bank does not publish exchange rates on these days. Rates roll over to the previous business day.
New Year's Day
Thursday, Jan 1
Human Rights Day
Saturday, Mar 21
Good Friday
Friday, Apr 3
Freedom Day
Monday, Apr 27
Workers' Day
Friday, May 1
Youth Day
nextTuesday, Jun 16
National Women's Day
Sunday, Aug 9
Heritage Day
Thursday, Sep 24
Day of Reconciliation
Wednesday, Dec 16
Christmas Day
Friday, Dec 25
Day of Goodwill
Saturday, Dec 26
Family Day
Easter Monday
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