{
  "id": "fx-gbp-thb",
  "title": "Pound sterling in Thai baht",
  "metric": "GBP/THB spot",
  "unit": "THB per GBP",
  "kind": "fx",
  "volatility": "fast",
  "direction_note": "lower = a UK pension buys fewer baht",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "Bank of England spot series (via poundsterlinglive GBP-THB history)",
    "url": "https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/historical-spot-exchange-rates/gbp/GBP-to-THB"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"Pound sterling in Thai baht\" (GBP/THB spot). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/fx-gbp-thb.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/fx-gbp-thb.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/fx-gbp-thb.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-08-08",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2007",
      "value": 70,
      "range": [
        65,
        75
      ],
      "confidence": "triangulated",
      "note": "pre-2008 sterling peak (GBP ≈ $2.00, USD/THB ≈ 33–36)"
    },
    {
      "date": "2016",
      "value": 45,
      "range": [
        40,
        45
      ],
      "confidence": "triangulated",
      "note": "settled into the ~40–45 band after the Brexit vote"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-05",
      "value": 42.98,
      "range": [
        41.69,
        44.3
      ],
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-05-24",
      "note": "May spot; 2026 range 41.69 (21 Jan) to 44.30 (4 May). Re-read 24 May ~43.9, within range; value held at the representative mid-May figure."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08",
      "value": 44.46,
      "source": {
        "label": "European Central Bank euro foreign exchange reference rates, 7 Aug 2026",
        "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-08",
      "note": "Scheduled re-verification. Up ~3.4% on the May reading and now slightly above the 2026 high recorded there (44.30, 4 May) — a sterling pensioner's baht income is at the strong end of the post-Brexit ~40–45 band, which is where the band's history says not to plan from.\n",
      "readings": [
        {
          "value": 44.458,
          "source": {
            "label": "ECB euro reference rates, 7 Aug 2026 (EUR/THB 38.129 ÷ EUR/GBP 0.85765)",
            "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml"
          },
          "retrieved_via": "ECB eurofxref-daily.xml, cross-rate arithmetic"
        },
        {
          "value": 44.458,
          "source": {
            "label": "Frankfurter (ECB-derived) GBP base, 7 Aug 2026",
            "url": "https://api.frankfurter.dev/v1/latest?base=GBP&symbols=THB"
          },
          "retrieved_via": "JSON API"
        },
        {
          "value": 44.472,
          "source": {
            "label": "open.er-api.com, 8 Aug 2026 00:02 UTC (THB 33.0018 ÷ GBP 0.74208 per USD)",
            "url": "https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD"
          },
          "retrieved_via": "JSON API — independent of the ECB set, cross-rate arithmetic"
        }
      ],
      "rationale": "All three readings fall within 0.014 THB. Resolved to 44.46, the ECB cross-rate at this ledger's two decimals.\n"
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}