Exchange Rates 23.09.2026

kursikembimit.al is an Albanian platform that brings together the exchange rates of the Bank of Albania, commercial banks and financial institutions in Albania in one place.

Instead of visiting each bank’s website separately, you can see at a glance:

• the Bank of Albania’s official rate of the day;
• buy and sell rates for every bank and exchange office we track;
• the best rate for each currency on the Best rate page;
• a currency converter, rate history with charts going back to 2020, monthly statistics and email alerts.

Rates are checked automatically every 30 minutes from the institutions’ official websites. The site is available in Albanian and English and is developed by Magus Group Albania.

Our system checks the official websites of the banks and the Bank of Albania automatically every 30 minutes, throughout the day.

How often a rate actually changes depends on the institution:

• The Bank of Albania publishes its official rate once every business day.
• Commercial banks and exchange offices usually set their rates in the morning and may change them during the day as the market moves.
• At weekends and on public holidays many institutions don’t publish new rates, so the last valid rate is shown.

Each rate shows the date and time of its latest update ("Updated"). You can also check each source on the data status page.

The Bank of Albania’s (BoA) official rate is a reference rate, while commercial bank rates are the actual prices at which banks buy and sell currency with customers.

• The official rate is a single value per currency. It is used as a reference for accounting, financial statements, tax and customs declarations and contracts. You can’t exchange cash at this rate at a counter.
• A commercial bank rate has two values, buy and sell, set by the bank itself. The difference between them includes the bank’s margin.

The official rate usually sits between the banks’ buy and sell rates. For a real transaction, compare bank rates on the home page or on Best rate.

The buy rate is the price at which the bank buys foreign currency from you; the sell rate is the price at which the bank sells foreign currency to you. Both are quoted in lek (ALL) per unit of currency.

• Buy: applies when you have euros, dollars and so on and want lek. Example: at a buy rate of 97.50, 100 EUR gets you 9,750 lek.
• Sell: applies when you have lek and want to buy currency. Example: at a sell rate of 99.00, 100 EUR costs you 9,900 lek.

The gap between the two rates is the spread, the bank’s margin. The smaller it is, the better the exchange is for you. In the converter you can choose "Buy" or "Sell" to see the exact amount.

Use the quick converter on the left of every page or the full Converter page: choose a bank, a currency and the rate type, then enter the amount.

1. Bank: the Bank of Albania’s official rate is used by default; pick a commercial bank to see the real amount you’ll receive or pay.
2. Currency: EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, CAD or AUD.
3. Buy or Sell: "Buy" when you sell currency to the bank, "Sell" when you buy currency from it.
4. Amount: the result in lek is calculated instantly, together with the rate used.

The full converter page also works in reverse (lek to currency) and compares the amount across all banks, so you can see where you get the better deal.

Yes. We offer a REST API in JSON format with the latest rates, history, conversion and the list of banks. Access uses a personal API key.

How to get a key: write to us from the Contact page with your company or project name, what you’ll use the data for and roughly how many requests you expect. Once approved, we send you the key and the terms of use.

Main endpoints:

• GET /api/rates: latest rates from all banks;
• GET /api/rates/{currency}: rates for one currency, for example /api/rates/EUR;
• GET /api/rates/{currency}/history: a currency’s history;
• GET /api/convert?from=EUR&to=ALL&amount=100: conversion, with an optional bank;
• GET /api/banks and GET /api/banks/{slug}: banks and each bank’s rates.

Authentication: send your key in the X-API-Key header, for example curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://kursikembimit.al/api/rates/EUR. Each key has an hourly request limit, set according to your needs.

Full technical documentation is in the API documentation. For simpler needs, such as showing rates on a website, you can also use the widget or feeds.