How much is 1 oz of gold today?
1 troy ounce of gold costs $4,164.51 today at the live spot ask, and we pay $4,159.10 when you sell an ounce to us. That is up $3.02 (+0.07%) from today's open, against a 52-week range of $3,936.55 to $5,477.79. Half an ounce is $2,082.26, a quarter ounce $1,041.13, a tenth $416.45, and ten ounces $41,645.10.
A 1 oz gold coin or bar sells for the spot price plus a premium, so the price of a physical ounce is a little above the number here. See live prices for 1 oz gold bar and the American Gold Eagle, Gold Buffalo, Canadian Maple Leaf and Krugerrand. One troy ounce is 31.1035 grams, about 10% heavier than a kitchen ounce. Updated .
What is the gold spot price?
The gold spot price is the price of one troy ounce of gold for immediate settlement, quoted in U.S. dollars. It is the number every price on this site, in our shop and at every other dealer starts from. The figure at the top of this page is the live wholesale ask (the price to buy); the bid beside it is the price we pay when you sell gold to us. Right now gold is $4,164.51 an ounce, up $3.02 (+0.07%) from today's open.
How the gold price is set
No single exchange sets it. Gold trades over the counter between bullion banks, refiners and dealers around the clock, anchored by two public reference points: the LBMA benchmark auction in London and the futures contracts on the CME in New York. Dealers like Standard Bullion trade on live wholesale quotes derived from that market, which is why our price carries a bid and an ask instead of a single figure, and why it moves every few seconds while the market is open.
What moves the gold price
Gold answers first to real interest rates: when the yield on inflation-protected Treasuries falls, the opportunity cost of holding a metal that pays nothing falls with it, and gold tends to rise. The U.S. dollar matters for the same reason in reverse, since gold is priced in dollars and a weaker dollar makes it cheaper for everyone else. Central-bank buying has been the structural bid of the past decade, with reserve managers in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe adding tonnes every year. Layered on top are the things that make headlines: inflation prints, Federal Reserve meetings, geopolitical shocks, and flows into and out of gold-backed ETFs. Jewelry and technology demand set a floor, and mine supply changes slowly, so price moves are mostly about investment demand.
Gold is the only one of the four metals that central banks hold as a reserve asset, which is why its price behaves more like a currency than a commodity. It is also the reference for the gold/silver ratio, the number of ounces of silver one ounce of gold buys, which investors use to judge which metal is relatively cheap.
Gold price per gram, ounce and kilo
Precious metals are priced in troy ounces (31.1035 grams), not the 28.35-gram ounce used for everything else. One gram of gold is therefore the ounce price divided by 31.1035, currently $133.89, and a kilogram is 32.1507 troy ounces, currently $133,892.11. The table above converts the live price to grams, kilos, pennyweights and the common coin fractions so you can value a piece of any size at a glance.
Gold price history
Gold traded at a fixed $20.67 an ounce under the U.S. gold standard for most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was revalued to $35 in 1934, and only began to float freely after the Bretton Woods link was cut in 1971. The 1970s inflation decade took it to a January 1980 peak that stood for twenty-eight years. A long bear market followed, then the 2000s brought a new bull run driven by ETF demand and the financial crisis. Each subsequent cycle has set higher highs. The chart above covers all of it: monthly data from 1833, daily closes from 2011, and 15-minute intraday prices for the recent ranges.
Over the past year gold has traded between $3,936.55 and $5,477.79. A year ago it was $4,032.64, a change of +3.27% to today. Its all-time high is $5,477.79, set in January 29, 2026. The performance table above gives the exact price one day, one week, one month, one year and five years ago.
Spot price vs. what you pay
Spot is raw metal in wholesale size. A coin or bar adds refining, minting, assay, distribution and the dealer's margin, and that difference is the premium. Gold carries the lowest premiums of the four metals in percentage terms because its value is concentrated in small, easily verified pieces. A one-ounce bar from a recognised refiner typically trades a few percent over spot; sovereign coins such as the American Gold Eagle, Canadian Maple Leaf and South African Krugerrand carry a little more for their legal-tender status and liquidity; fractional coins (1/2, 1/4, 1/10 oz) cost the most per ounce because minting cost is spread over less metal. Every product in our gold bullion shop is priced live off this spot price plus its premium, and when you sell to us we pay a bid tied to the same feed.
How to read the gold price chart
The chart above is spot only, drawn as an area or line: we do not show candlesticks because gold has no single exchange volume behind it and a candle would imply data that does not exist. The 24H, 7D and 1M ranges use our own 15-minute captures; 3M to 25Y use daily closes; MAX reaches back to 1833 on monthly data. The moving-average buttons (20 to 200 days) are calendar-day averages, so a 200-day average means the same thing on every range. Hover or touch the chart for the exact price on any date, and use the custom range to compare any two dates.
Gold price FAQ
How much is 1 oz of gold today?
One troy ounce of gold costs the live spot ask shown at the top of this page, refreshed every 15 minutes in the summary and every 15 seconds in the live price. A physical 1 oz gold coin or bar costs that spot price plus a premium for minting and distribution. The summary also gives the price of a half, quarter and tenth ounce and of ten ounces.
What is the gold spot price?
The gold spot price is the price for one troy ounce of gold for immediate delivery, quoted in U.S. dollars. It is the benchmark every dealer, refiner and exchange works from. The price at the top of this page is the live ask for gold on Standard Bullion's wholesale feed; the bid is what we pay when you sell to us.
What is the gold price today?
Today's gold price is shown live at the top of this page and in the summary just below it, with the change from today's open, the 52-week range and the all-time high. The summary figures refresh every 15 minutes; the live price refreshes every 15 seconds while you have the page open.
How is the gold spot price set?
There is no single gold exchange. The spot price emerges from over-the-counter trading between banks, refiners and dealers, anchored by the LBMA benchmark auctions in London and by futures on the CME (COMEX/NYMEX) in New York. Our feed is the live wholesale price at which we can actually buy and sell metal, which is why it carries a bid and an ask rather than one number.
What is the difference between bid and ask?
The ask is the price to buy gold from us; the bid is the price we pay to buy it from you. The gap between them is the spread, which is how the wholesale market prices liquidity. Both are shown on this page. Most published "gold prices" are a mid or an ask only.
Why is the price of a gold coin or bar higher than spot?
Spot is the price of raw metal in wholesale quantities. A coin or bar adds refining, minting, assay, distribution and dealer costs, plus the liquidity of a recognised product, and that difference is the premium. Gold carries the lowest premiums of the four metals in percentage terms because its value is concentrated in small, easily verified pieces. A one-ounce bar from a recognised refiner typically trades a few percent over spot; sovereign coins such as the American Gold Eagle, Canadian Maple Leaf and South African Krugerrand carry a little more for their legal-tender status and liquidity; fractional coins (1/2, 1/4, 1/10 oz) cost the most per ounce because minting cost is spread over less metal.
How much is a gram of gold?
One troy ounce is 31.1035 grams, so the price per gram is the ounce price divided by 31.1035. The table above shows the live gram and kilogram prices. Note that a troy ounce is heavier than the ordinary (avoirdupois) ounce of 28.35 grams; all precious-metals prices use troy ounces.
When does the gold market trade?
Nearly around the clock. Trading opens Sunday evening U.S. Eastern time in Asia, follows the sun through London and New York, and closes Friday afternoon. Our live price updates whenever the wholesale market is open; over the weekend it holds Friday's close.
What are the 52-week high and low and the all-time high?
The 52-week range is the highest and lowest gold price over the past year from our daily record, including today's intraday extremes. The all-time high is the highest price in our full history: daily closes since 2011 and monthly data back to 1833. All three are shown in the summary at the top of this page and recomputed every 15 minutes.
Is gold a good investment right now?
We do not give investment advice, and no dealer can tell you where the price goes next. What the data on this page can tell you is where today’s price sits against the 52-week range and the all-time high, and how it has moved over one and five years. Many investors treat gold as a long-term holding of 5–10% of a portfolio and buy on a schedule rather than trying to time the market.
Can I get the gold price as data or through an API?
Yes. The same live and historical gold prices are published as JSON and plain text, as a history API, as an embeddable chart and as signed webhooks. See the Precious Metals Market Data page and the Gold Price API documentation. It is free with attribution.
Where does Standard Bullion's gold price come from?
From the live wholesale pricing feed we trade on ourselves, captured every 15 minutes into our own price record for the charts and the daily history, with monthly data back to 1833 from published LBMA and USGS series. We do not scrape other dealers' prices.
Prices on this page are indicative live dealer quotes for information only and are not an offer to buy or sell. Data: Standard Bullion's own wholesale feed, daily record since 2011, and LBMA / USGS monthly series to 1833. Also available as market data and through the price API.