BOT · –Fetching the latest BOT rates
Bank of Tanzania exchange rates, ready for your code
BOT publishes reference rates for 44 currencies on its website every day. We fetch them, check them and serve them as a free API, a website widget and a history back to June 1999. An independent project, not affiliated with the Bank of Tanzania.
Latest rates
TZS per 1 unit of foreign currency
Open the full converter · Popular: Dollar to TSh · TZS to USD · Euro to TZS · Pound to TZS · KES to TZS · UGX to TZS · Bei ya dola leo
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US Dollar since 1999
Mean BOT rate in TZS for every day since 24 June 1999
Mean rate
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Yearly average
Records
Daily moves this year
Who uses one daily rate
BOT publishes one reference rate per currency per day. Plenty of work in Tanzania depends on it, and most of it still copies the number by hand.
Tax and customs
Convert invoices, VAT and import values at the BOT rate for the right date
Fintech and mobile money
Show the reference rate next to your own and keep history for compliance reports
Bureaux de change
Show buy and sell prices on the shop’s website with your own margin on top
Shops, hotels and tours
Quote in dollars and show the shilling price beside it
Payroll, fees and rent
Convert USD salaries, school fees and leases at a rate both sides can check
Research and journalism
27 years of daily rates as CSV, one file per year
Spreadsheets
Load the latest rates into Google Sheets or Excel with one formula
AI assistants and chat bots
A plain-text guide and an OpenAPI spec so a bot can answer “dola leo?” with a dated BOT rate
API
Plain JSON and CSV over HTTPS. No key and no sign-up for these endpoints. Personal API keys with usage stats are planned.
For AI assistants
Point an assistant at llms.txt or load openapi.json as a tool. Every response carries its BOT date and units.
Website widget
Choose currencies and your margin, then paste one line into any website. It reads the latest BOT rates each time the page loads.