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Live gold spot price (XAU/USD) with 24-hour high, low, and historical charts.
Record high reflects the highest price in our available data history.
How the gold price has moved over time, shown in US Dollar per troy ounce.
| Period | Change (USD/oz) | % change |
|---|---|---|
| Today | +$ 5.60 | +0.13% ↑ |
| 1 Week | -$ 153.20 | -3.41% ↓ |
| 1 Month | -$ 380.10 | -8.06% ↓ |
| 6 Months | +$ 139.86 | +3.33% ↑ |
| 1 Year | +$ 1,025.62 | +30.99% ↑ |
| 5 Years | +$ 2,446.95 | +129.56% ↑ |
Percentages reflect the international gold price (XAU/USD). Indicative data, not financial advice.
Gold is the world’s most widely followed precious metal and the benchmark safe-haven asset. It is traded around the clock and quoted per troy ounce in US dollars, forming the reference price from which every local gold rate is derived.
The live figure below is the international spot price for immediate settlement. Dealer and jewelry prices add a premium on top of it, so use this as your starting benchmark when comparing offers.
Because gold pays no yield, it tends to weaken when rates and the dollar are high, and strengthen when they fall.
Rising inflation or geopolitical stress pushes investors toward gold as a store of value.
Large official purchases or sales of gold reserves can move the global market.
The gold spot price is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce. To see it in your own currency, apply your exchange rate, then divide by 31.1035 (the grams in a troy ounce) for a per-gram figure.
The ₹83 rate is illustrative — the same method works for any currency, just swap in its exchange rate. Our converter and country pages do this automatically using live rates.
| Weight | 24K | 22K | 21K | 18K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Gram | $ 139.38 | $ 127.68 | $ 121.97 | $ 104.54 |
| Per Tola | $ 1,625.69 | $ 1,489.28 | $ 1,422.62 | $ 1,219.39 |
| Per 10 Gram | $ 1,393.79 | $ 1,276.84 | $ 1,219.69 | $ 1,045.45 |
| Per Ounce | $ 4,335.17 | $ 3,971.41 | $ 3,793.65 | $ 3,251.70 |
| Per Kilo | $ 139,378.84 | $ 127,683.79 | $ 121,968.68 | $ 104,544.58 |
Gold has captivated humanity for at least 6,000 years. The earliest known gold artefacts come from the Varna necropolis in Bulgaria around 4,500 BC, and by the time of ancient Egypt gold was already the metal of pharaohs and gods. Because it never tarnishes, the treasure buried with Tutankhamun still gleams today. Its scarcity, beauty, and permanence made it the natural choice for the first true coins, struck in Lydia around 600 BC.
For most of modern history gold underpinned money itself, from the classical gold standard of the 19th century to the Bretton Woods system that lasted until 1971. When the United States finally severed the dollar’s link to gold, the metal began trading freely — and has since become the world’s premier safe-haven asset, sought in every crisis from 1970s inflation to the 2008 financial collapse and beyond.
Gold is genuinely rare: every ounce ever mined would fit into a single cube only about 22 metres on each side. It is also remarkably dense — nearly twice the weight of lead for the same volume — which is why a gold bar feels surprisingly heavy in the hand. Chemically it is almost inert: it does not rust, corrode, or tarnish, which is precisely why ancient gold survives intact.
That inertness, combined with gold being one of the most malleable and ductile of all metals, gives it unique behaviour. A single gram can be beaten into a sheet a square metre in size or drawn into a wire kilometres long. It is also an excellent conductor of electricity and reflects infrared heat almost perfectly.
Beyond jewelry and investment, gold is a quiet workhorse of technology. Its unmatched corrosion resistance and superb conductivity make it essential in electronics: the connectors, contacts, and bonding wires inside smartphones, computers, and spacecraft are often gold-plated to guarantee signals that never degrade.
Gold’s near-perfect infrared reflectivity means a microscopically thin coating shields satellite components and astronaut visors from the sun’s heat. In medicine it appears in dentistry, certain cancer therapies, and diagnostic tests, while its biocompatibility makes it useful in implants.
Gold trades around the clock across London, New York, and Shanghai, with the London benchmark (the LBMA price) serving as the global reference, quoted per troy ounce in US dollars. Demand flows from four main sources — jewelry, investment (bars, coins, and ETFs), central banks, and technology — and the balance between them, alongside interest rates and the dollar, sets the price.
The spot price is the cost of one troy ounce of pure gold for immediate delivery, quoted in US dollars. It is the global benchmark before dealer premiums.
Dealers add a premium covering refining, fabrication, shipping, and margin, so the retail price you pay is always above spot.
The price refreshes throughout the trading day, cached briefly to stay in line with our data provider’s guidelines.