Guatemala policy interest rate
Banco de Guatemala (Banguat) leading monetary policy interest rate (tasa de interés líder de política monetaria), set by the Junta Monetaria at its scheduled rate-decision sessions (eight per year).
| Current value | 3.5 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-02-18 |
| Official source | Banco de Guatemala — Boletines de Prensa 2026 (Junta Monetaria decisions) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-16 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Cut 25bps from 3.75% to 3.50% at the 18 February 2026 session (unanimous), then held unchanged at the 25 March, 29 April, 27 May and 24 June 2026 sessions (all unanimous). Headline inflation was 2.86% in May 2026, inside the 4.0% +/-1pp target band. Remaining 2026 rate sessions: 26 August, 23 September, 25 November (per Banguat's published calendar). NOTE ON ACCESS: banguat.gob.gt was unreachable from outside Guatemala at confirmation time (connection timeout / geo-restriction); all decisions were verified against Banguat's own bulletins page via a Wayback Machine snapshot captured 16 July 2026 (web.archive.org/web/20260716154215/https://banguat.gob.gt/page/boletines-de-prensa-2026) and against Banguat's official press-conference PDFs (cbanguat907/911/914/916.pdf, February–May 2026).
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-27 | 4.25 | Banco de Guatemala — Conferencia de prensa decisión de tasa |
| 2025-09-24 | 4 | Banco de Guatemala — Conferencia de prensa decisión de tasa |
| 2025-11-26 | 3.75 | Banco de Guatemala — Conferencia de prensa decisión de tasa |
Get it programmatically
curl https://usaref.dev/v1/gt/policy-rate
# $0.001 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://usaref.dev/v1/gt/policy-rate/history?from=2020-01-01
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