Historical Exchange Rates

On this page, we’ll dive into the historical exchange rates endpoint you can use to retrieve historical exchangen rates for a specific date. Data are available all the way back to 1999.

GET/v3/historical

Historical Exchange Rates

This historical exchange rates endpoint provides currency rates for a specified date.

Required attributes

Name
date
Type
string
Description
Date to retrieve historical rates from (format: 2021-12-31)

Optional attributes

Name
base_currency
Type
string
Description
The base currency to which all results are behaving relative to By default all values are based on USD
Name
currencies
Type
string
Description
A list of comma seperated currency codes which you want to get (EUR,USD,CAD) By default all available currencies will be shown

Response Properties

The response is equal to the response from /latest endpoint.

Request

GET

/v3/historical

curl -G https://api.currencyapi.com/v3/historical?date=2022-01-01 \
    -H "apikey: YOUR-API-KEY"

Full Response

{
    "meta": {
        "last_updated_at": "2022-01-01T23:59:59Z"
    },
    "data": {
        "AED": {
            "code": "AED",
            "value": 3.67306
        },
        "AFN": {
            "code": "AFN",
            "value": 91.80254
        },
        "ALL": {
            "code": "ALL",
            "value": 108.22904
        },
        "AMD": {
            "code": "AMD",
            "value": 480.41659
        },
        "...": "170+ more currencies"
    }
}