South Africa official exchange rates
Selected rand exchange rates as published by the South African Reserve Bank on its public Current Market Rates service: rand per US dollar, British pound, euro and Japanese yen. Indicative official reference values published by the central bank, not tradable market quotes.
| Current value | 4 entries — see the API for the full schedule |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-31 |
| Official source | South African Reserve Bank — Current Market Rates (Exchange rates section), as at 2026-07-31 |
| Last verified | 2026-07-31 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
SARB publishes these on business days; the dated value shown is the most recent publication. The nominal effective exchange rate index is deliberately excluded — it is an index, not a currency pair.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-27 | structured | South African Reserve Bank — Current Market Rates (Exchange |
| 2026-07-28 | structured | South African Reserve Bank — Current Market Rates (Exchange |
| 2026-07-29 | structured | South African Reserve Bank — Current Market Rates (Exchange |
| 2026-07-30 | structured | South African Reserve Bank — Current Market Rates (Exchange |
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/za/fx-reference
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/za/fx-reference/history?from=2020-01-01
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