Ethiopian bank exchange rates, side by side.
Live and historical buying and selling rates from 30 Ethiopian banks across 19 currencies - ranked, timestamped and free to check.
- Banks tracked
- 30
- Currencies
- 19
- Rate history
- 90d
- Public API
- Free
Common amounts
| Bank | Cash buy | Cash sell | Trans. buy | Trans. sell | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OROOromia BankBEST | 164.88 | 168.17 | 161.72 | 164.96 | 16h ago |
| 163.66 | 166.94 | 160.92 | 164.14 | 16h ago | |
| 163.26 | 166.52 | 160.92 | 164.14 | 16h ago | |
| 162.12 | 165.36 | 160.51 | 163.72 | 16h ago | |
| 161.73 | 164.96 | 161.73 | 164.96 | 16h ago | |
| 161.72 | 164.96 | - | - | 16h ago | |
| 161.71 | 164.95 | - | - | 17h ago | |
| 161.63 | 164.87 | 161.63 | 164.87 | 16h ago |
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USD rate history
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Ethiopian bank rates for 19 currencies, each with the full bank ranking, 90 days of history and a converter.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best USD exchange rate in Ethiopia today?
On 28 August 2026, Oromia Bank pays the most for US dollar cash at 164.88 ETB per USD. ET-Forex compares all 30 Ethiopian banks that publish a rate board and ranks them best first, so the leader is always at the top of the table whichever bank it happens to be that morning.
Where do ET-Forex rates come from?
Directly from the exchange rate boards Ethiopian commercial banks publish themselves. Every tracked bank is re-read automatically several times a day. Nothing is estimated or averaged into a single "market rate", and parallel (black market) rates are not collected or quoted. When a bank stops publishing, its page says so and shows the trading day its last figures belong to.
How many banks and currencies does ET-Forex track?
30 Ethiopian commercial banks and 19 currencies against the Ethiopian birr, including USD, EUR, GBP, AED and SAR. Every bank publishes both a cash rate for physical notes and a transactional rate for transfers, remittances and card settlement, and both are shown.
Is ET-Forex free to use?
Yes. The website and the Android app are free, with no account required. A commercial developer API is available for teams that need programmatic access, historical series or webhooks.
How often do Ethiopian bank exchange rates change?
Most Ethiopian banks reprice once per business day, typically in the morning, and hold that board until the next working day. Rates do not usually move at weekends or on public holidays. ET-Forex re-reads every bank several times a day so a mid-day revision is picked up rather than waited out.
Can I convert an amount at the best available rate?
Yes. The converter on this page applies the best cash rate currently published across all tracked banks and names the bank supplying it, so the figure is one you can actually act on rather than an indicative mid-market number.
Developer API
Every Ethiopian bank rate, one endpoint.
Query live and historical boards by bank, currency or rate type. JSON in, JSON out - no scraping, no per-bank quirks to handle.
JSON
REST, no SDK needed
90d
History, anonymous
Free
No key to read rates
$ curl 'https://v2.et-forex.com/api/v1/banks/CBE/rates'
{
"bank": "CBE",
"rates": [{
"currency": "USD",
"cashBuying": "160.23",
"cashSelling": "163.44"
}]
}