About Afghan Guide
Afghan Guide (رهنما) is a free guide to daily life in Afghanistan, in Dari, Pashto and English: the exchange rate and gold, today's date, prayer times, the weather in every province and district, jobs, passports and tazkira, visas, and all 34 provinces.
Who makes it
Afghan Guide is an independent, free project, with no advertising and no ties to any government or party. Its aim is one trustworthy place for everyday answers, with the source of every figure.
Where the figures come from
| Exchange rates | Sarai Shahzada, Kabul (sarafi.af); Da Afghanistan Bank | every 30 minutes |
| Gold | Kabul and Herat goldsmiths' unions (Afaaq daily report); world price (gold-api.com) | hourly |
| Weather | Open-Meteo; MET Norway | hourly; districts every 3 hours |
| Mountain passes | Open-Meteo; MET Norway | hourly |
| Earthquakes | USGS | every 30 minutes |
| Food and fuel prices | WFP market monitoring (HDX) | daily |
| Kabul flights | Kabul International Airport (kia.gov.af) | every 30 minutes |
| Job openings | Public job boards of aid organisations | hourly |
| Phone packages | Each operator's own published packages | twice a month |
| Visas | Each country's official immigration or e-visa site; IATA | checked weekly |
| Hospitals | OpenStreetMap | weekly |
| Calendar and prayer times | Calculated (solar Hijri; Hanafi method) | always calculated |
Every page shows when it was last updated. Rates are indicative; ask your exchanger before a large transaction.
How it is checked
- Every figure is checked against a plausible range before it is shown; an impossible one is never published.
- Guides and fees are checked again against official sources every month.
- Readers can report a mistake at the foot of every page.
Hoosh
Hoosh, Afghan Guide's AI assistant, answers only from this site's pages and links the page behind every answer.
Quoting and citing
You may quote Afghan Guide's figures and text with credit to "Afghan Guide (afghanguide.com)" and a link to the page.