Gold Price Desk
Live gold and silver, priced from the global spot ounce and refreshed every two minutes. The number below is the raw metal, before any shop's making charge and before tax.
Gold is 4,166.10 US dollars per troy ounce right now, which is 133.94 per gram of pure gold. Silver is 57.12 per ounce.
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Gold · 24 karat · one troy ounce
4,166.10 USD / oz
+0.14% over 24 hours
Studio
Longer ranges unlock as our own record grows. Recording since 1 September 2026, 46 days so far.
Gold unchanged since Friday, 16 October 2026 at 22:00 UTC (19 hours). Spot gold does not trade over the weekend: the market closes on Friday evening and reopens on Sunday evening, New York time.
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The metals
Gold, silver and platinum by the ounce in dollars, from our own readings.
Gold in your currency
The gram and ounce price of 24 karat gold, in the currencies we can verify.
Gold by weight
The same spot price, worked out for the units gold is actually bought in.
What is your gold worth?
Value = the dollar ounce ÷ 31.1034768 × the karat’s purity × the weight in grams × the currency rate.
Raw metal value only. It excludes any making charge and any sales tax, and it is not what a shop will pay you when you sell.
How gold has moved since we began recording
From our own readings, not from an archive we bought. The span we actually cover is named below.
Span actually covered: 24 hours
The ounce on previous days
| Date | Gold | Silver | Platinum | Change · gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | 4,166.10 | 57.12 | 1,636.00 | ● 0.00 |
| 4,166.10 | 57.12 | 1,636.00 | ▲ +8.60 | |
| 4,157.50 | 57.22 | 1,628.00 | ▲ +44.50 | |
| 4,113.00 | 55.87 | 1,604.00 | ▼ −43.40 | |
| 4,156.40 | 59.11 | 1,661.00 | ▼ −15.40 | |
| 4,171.80 | 60.38 | 1,691.00 | ▼ −19.80 | |
| 4,191.60 | 61.07 | 1,698.00 | ▼ −4.00 | |
| 4,195.60 | 60.95 | 1,695.00 | — |
Each day's figure is our own reading at 00:00 UTC; the first row is the price now, and each change is against the row beneath it. From our own record, not a bought archive, so the table grows by one row a day.
How we know this number
Three facts about our own machine, each of them checkable.
Every two minutes
A scheduled job reads the global spot price on that interval and stores it. When you open a page, the current saved number is written into it as it is sent to you, so a page cached an hour ago cannot hand you an hour-old price.
One number makes the rest
Every price here derives from the dollar ounce: a gram is that ounce divided by 31.1034768, a karat price is the gram times its purity, another currency is one conversion. Nothing is rounded on the way through and nothing is estimated.
What we refuse to print
A dash instead of a guess. No buy-and-sell table, no shop names, no local making-charge figures unless they are researched and sourced for that specific market. And no VWAP: spot gold has no volume data, so there is nothing to compute.
Measured, not claimed
A reading is on record for 100% (168 of 168 hours) of the recent hours, and on the latest tick our primary source differed from an independent spot quote by 0.041%. Both figures come from the machine's own log and are written into this page as it is served.
What the number above actually is
It is the spot price of pure gold, quoted in dollars for one troy ounce of 31.1034768 grams. That single global figure is where every other price on this site comes from. A gram price is that ounce divided by 31.1034768. A karat price is the gram price multiplied by its purity, so 21 karat is 87.5 per cent of the pure figure and 18 karat is 75 per cent. A price in another currency is the dollar figure converted once. Nothing is rounded on the way through, and nothing is estimated. If any one of those inputs is missing, the page does not guess the rest.
What this site refuses to print
A dash instead of a guess. If a currency, a unit or a purity is not one we have verified, the page shows a dash rather than a plausible-looking number. The gold sovereign is a live example: it is a coin, not a unit of mass, and we have not defined what we would be pricing, so asking this site for the price of a sovereign returns a dash and not a number.
The tola used to be on that list and is not any more, which is the point. We left it out while the figure we could find was only the figure everyone quotes. It came in once it was checked against the standard: the tola was fixed at 180 troy grains in 1833, a troy ounce is 480 grains, so a tola is exactly three eighths of a troy ounce and there is no conversion constant to get wrong.
We also publish no buy-and-sell table, no shop names and no local making-charge figures unless they are researched and sourced for that specific market. A page that invents local detail is worse than a page that admits it does not have it. The same rule governs the chart: it offers no timeframe longer than our own record, because the alternative is backfilling from a benchmark we are not licensed to republish.
Markets we cover
Pages written for each market, not translated into it.
More markets are being added one at a time.
Tools
Gold calculator
Weight, karat and currency to a value, with the arithmetic shown rather than hidden.
Open →Gold price in Qatar
22, 24, 21 and 18 karat per gram and per tola, in riyals.
Open →How we know this number
The cron interval, the source, the cross-checks, and what this site refuses to print.
Open →Put the live gold price on your site
Common questions
How often does this price update?
Every two minutes. A scheduled job reads the global spot price on that interval, stores it, and the number is stitched into the page as it is served, so a cached page can never hand you an old price. Every page shows the exact age of the number it is displaying.
Where does the price come from?
One free public spot feed for the metal price in US dollars, plus a separate foreign-exchange reading for the currencies that are not pegged to the dollar. Every other number on this site is calculated from those two inputs and the karat purity. If the primary feed fails for more than six minutes, an independent spot quote stands in for gold and the Source line on the desk says so by name. We do not buy a licensed exchange feed, and we do not claim to.
Why do some currencies show the age of an exchange rate and others do not?
The Saudi riyal, the UAE dirham and the Qatari riyal are pegged to the US dollar, so converting into them uses a constant we hold and the price is exactly as fresh as the metal reading. Sterling, the Egyptian pound and the Kuwaiti dinar float, so a price in those is a fresh metal reading converted at a rate that is refreshed roughly every six hours. That difference is real, so we print the age of the rate rather than hiding it. A rate older than a day is not used at all.
Is this the price a jewellery shop will charge me?
No, and it is not meant to be. This is the raw metal price. A shop adds a making charge for the workmanship and, in most markets, sales tax on top. The gap between the two is real and can be large, which is why the market pages explain it rather than hiding it.
What happens when the price feed fails?
The page says so. It shows the last good price with an honest label and the real age, and if the reading cannot be trusted at all it prints a dash. It never guesses, never carries a number forward silently, and never shows a figure without showing how old it is.
Which markets does this site cover?
Saudi Arabia in Arabic and Qatar in English are live today. The Saudi section carries gram prices by karat, ounce and kilo, silver, a calculator and a zakat calculator; the Qatar page carries gram, tola, ounce and kilo prices in riyals. More markets are being added one at a time, each with editorial written for that market rather than translated into it.