Bank of Uganda Exchange Rates API — bou-exchange-rate

Official Bank of Uganda (Uganda) daily exchange rates for Node.js and TypeScript. The published central bank rates behind tax filings, customs valuations, audits, and compliant invoicing — not market estimates, but the numbers Bank of Uganda itself prints, every business day.

🚀 Why this client?

• 🏛️ Official rates — Bank of Uganda's own table, with the publisher's own rate_date on every response
• 📅 History from 2026 — this source publishes only its current table, so the archive builds forward from the day we started collecting
• 🔀 Official vs derived, always flagged — computed inverse/cross pairs carry derived: true, never mixed with official prints
• ⚡ Zero dependencies — pure ESM + CJS over global fetch; Node 18+, Bun, Deno, and edge runtimes
• 🔷 Type-safe — full TypeScript definitions shipped with the package
• 🧾 Compliance-grade metadata — rate_type, publication date, and source disclaimer on every response

Official rate, not mid-market: every value here is a number Bank of Uganda itself published, fixed once printed and carrying the central bank's own rate_date — what filings and audits require. Need the live mid-market rate for pricing or display instead? Use the mid-market API or @allratestoday/sdk. The two can diverge by several percent.

🔑 Get your API key

Get a free API key at allratestoday.com/register — no credit card required. Latest rates are on every plan, including free.

📈 Latest official table

The image is rendered live from the keyless endpoint, so it follows the central bank's publications on npm and on GitHub alike without a new release. The same table as text is folded below for search and copy-paste: on GitHub a daily Action refreshes it whenever the central bank publishes a new table; on npm it is as of the package's publish date.

Base	Quote	Type	Rate
EUR	UGX	buy	4524.879525
EUR	UGX	closing	4560.981647
EUR	UGX	closing_buy	4555.026766
EUR	UGX	closing_sell	4566.936528
EUR	UGX	midday	4549.334588
EUR	UGX	midday_buy	4543.38585
EUR	UGX	midday_sell	4555.283326
EUR	UGX	reference	4530.826592
EUR	UGX	sell	4536.773659
GBP	UGX	buy	5415.147018
GBP	UGX	closing	5457.1754055
GBP	UGX	closing_buy	5449.925584
GBP	UGX	closing_sell	5464.425227
GBP	UGX	midday	5444.538309
GBP	UGX	midday_buy	5437.294452
GBP	UGX	midday_sell	5451.782166
GBP	UGX	reference	5422.3883685
GBP	UGX	sell	5429.629719
KES	UGX	buy	31.416148
KES	UGX	closing	31.644741
KES	UGX	closing_buy	31.581937
KES	UGX

Source: Official rates published by BOU, served by AllRatesToday. Rates are as printed by the central bank; AllRatesToday is not affiliated with it.

📦 Installation

npm install bou-exchange-rate

yarn add bou-exchange-rate

pnpm add bou-exchange-rate

Requires Node 18+ (global fetch); also runs on Bun, Deno and edge runtimes. Also published under the org scope as @allratestoday/bou-exchange-rate — same code, same versions.

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