South African Rand (ZAR) R
South African Rand exchange rates against major world currencies, checked hourly and updated as sources publish.
1 ZAR = 0.0613731 USD
1 ZAR in other currencies
Convert to ZAR
Get ZAR rates in your app
One GET request returns every rate against ZAR as JSON. Send your API key in the Authorization header.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://rate-api.com/api/v1/latest?base=ZAR"fetch('https://rate-api.com/api/v1/latest?base=ZAR', {
headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
})
.then((res) => res.json())
.then((data) => console.log(`1 ZAR = ${data.rates.USD} USD`));import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://rate-api.com/api/v1/latest?base=ZAR",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
timeout=10,
)
data = res.json()
print(f"1 ZAR = {data['rates']['USD']} USD")<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://rate-api.com/api/v1/latest?base=ZAR');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
echo "1 ZAR = {$data['rates']['USD']} USD\n";Replace YOUR_API_KEY with a key from your dashboard. The same key also works in the URL path or an X-API-Key header.
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Rates as of 2026-09-26. For developers: query these via the Rate-API REST API.