Read the ECB deposit facility rate by its effective day
Inspect the original daily euro-area policy rate from 1 January 2020 through 30 September 2026. Separate its effective date, annual unit and source clocks.
1. Identify the region and policy instrument
The deposit facility rate describes the Eurosystem’s overnight deposit facility policy instrument. Its unit is percent per annum: an annual rate convention attached to this overnight instrument. It is neither an annual percentage change nor a promise that a customer deposit earns that amount. Check the named instrument and unit before comparing it with any other percentage in the macro overview.
The source region is the euro area with changing composition, identified as U2. It is not Germany’s national rate, a Czech or Polish policy rate, or a fixed membership reconstruction. Keep it separate from the main refinancing operation, marginal lending facility, Euribor, bond yields and bank deposit or loan offers. Those measurements require their own definitions and source permissions.
2. Match the effective day rather than the announcement
Each original observation belongs to its dated UTC calendar day. A policy announcement can precede the day on which a new level applies. The ECB decision announced on 5 June 2025 took effect on 11 June. The retained source reads 2.25 on 5 June and 2 on 11 June. Moving the new value to the announcement day would change the historical record.
The reviewed window ends on 30 September 2026, when the original value is 2.5 percent per annum. Read that visible date together with the number. It establishes the level for the selected source day within this history, not today’s policy beyond the window. Neither the last value nor a stepped chart forecasts the next decision or promises a future rate path.
3. Preserve original daily values, zero and gaps
The captured API response contains 2465 original calendar-day observations, including unchanged weekends, despite a source title referring to dates of changes. Datisto does not create those weekend values by carrying a preceding rate forward. Graph steps present the returned daily levels. A source date at the beginning of the selected window is a boundary observation, not automatically a policy decision that day.
Negative rates and exact zero are valid source values. Preserve original decimal strings such as -0.5, 0 and 2.5 when checking provenance or downloaded rows. The source’s decimal metadata does not justify padding them with zeros. An absent value must remain a gap, with its reason visible; it cannot become a zero, interpolated estimate or silently substituted adjacent day.
4. Keep source clocks and reuse conditions distinct
Separate the effective day, actual capture, response Last-Modified, page update and result computation. The retained response and page metadata contain different update clocks, including older embedded chart metadata. Those clocks describe their respective source context. They do not establish when every daily observation was first published or revised. Individual publication and revision times therefore remain unknown, and current history is not a first-publication reconstruction.
Inspect the exact series and current rights in Sources. The original ECB statistics are available free of charge on the ECB website. Datisto prepares this selection, visualisation and original English and Czech explanation; no ECB endorsement is implied. This statistical source permission does not establish permission to reproduce ECB articles, images or logos, or to claim editorial approval.
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