Gold spot prices, refreshed every sixty seconds.
Spot quotes from the live metals feed, ten years of daily settlement history for gold, silver and platinum from the LBMA London auction benchmark, and reference FX from the European Central Bank.
Price history · XAU/USD
Daily LBMA London auction settlements (gold and platinum PM auction, silver noon auction) to one year, weekly beyond that, rescaled onto the live spot level so each series ends at today's quote. Hover the chart for the settlement on any given day. Annualised figures are compound price growth over the period and exclude premiums, storage costs and tax.
Where gold sits in its own cycle
Gold is priced in dollars and pays no yield, so the dollar index and the US 10-year real yield are the two macro series that move it most reliably. A stronger dollar or higher real yields raise the opportunity cost of holding metal; the reverse tends to support it.
How to read this page
Spot is a wholesale reference, not a purchase price
The figure at the top of this page is the price at which unallocated 400oz London Good Delivery bars change hands between professional counterparties. No private investor transacts there. What you actually pay is spot plus a fabrication and distribution premium, and what you receive when you sell is spot minus a dealer's bid discount.
The gap between those two numbers — the round trip — is the single most important cost in physical gold, and it is much larger than most annual storage fees. A 4% retail premium on entry takes over thirty years of 0.12% custody to match.
Why the same ounce has several prices
London sets the wholesale benchmark, COMEX in New York sets the futures reference that most screens quote intraday, and Shanghai often trades at a premium or discount reflecting Chinese import demand. Small divergences between them are normal and reflect financing, freight and local tax rather than mispricing.
The number here tracks the spot market in US dollars. If you buy in euros, sterling or rupees, your entry also depends on the exchange rate at the moment of execution, which can move more in a day than the metal does.
What moves the price
Gold pays no coupon, so its main competitor is the real yield on short and medium-dated government debt. When inflation-adjusted yields rise, holding a non-yielding asset costs more in opportunity terms and gold typically struggles; when they fall, the reverse applies.
The dollar index matters because the metal is quoted in dollars: a stronger dollar mechanically raises the local-currency price for everyone else and dampens demand. Central bank buying, ETF flows and physical demand from India and China set the slower-moving floor beneath those two levers.
Using this data responsibly
Prices refresh automatically while the page is open and carry a visible timestamp. Treat them as an indicative market reference for research, not as an executable quote — the only executable price is the one your dealer or platform shows you at the moment you commit.
Nothing on this page is advice. Intraday moves of one or two percent are routine in gold and say very little about a multi-year holding.
Frequently asked
- What is the gold spot price?
- The spot price is the London reference price for immediate settlement of unallocated gold, quoted per troy ounce. It is the benchmark every dealer premium is measured against.
- Why is the price I am quoted higher than spot?
- Because a dealer price includes fabrication, distribution, dealer margin and payment costs. That difference is the premium, and it is the main variable our comparison table tracks.
- How many grams are in a troy ounce?
- 31.1034768 grams. Our per-gram figures use that conversion applied to the live ounce quote.
- How far back does the chart go, and which metals does it cover?
- Gold, silver and platinum, each over one month, six months, one year, five years and ten years. Series to one year use daily LBMA London auction settlements; the five- and ten-year series are sampled weekly from the same benchmark so the page stays fast. Every series is rescaled onto the live spot level so it ends at today’s quote, and hovering the chart shows the settlement for any individual day.
- What does the annualised figure mean?
- Compound annual growth between the first and last close of the selected period. It is a price return only: it ignores dealer premiums, storage fees, currency moves and tax, all of which reduce what an investor actually realises.
- Why do currency prices differ from a simple conversion?
- Non-USD quotes on this page apply European Central Bank daily reference rates to the live USD quote. A dealer using its own intraday rate will differ slightly.
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