Live spot price · XAU

The Live Gold Price

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Gold spot price: 4,241.30 USD per Troy Ounce

Updated 21:18 UTC Cached — source unreachable

−4.50 −0.11% today Down 0.11 percent today

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Currency

USD EUR GBP AED SAR INR PKR JPY CNY AUD CAD CHF TRY

Unit

oz g kg tola baht

Aggregated market data via XAUS. Indicative wholesale spot — excludes tax, premium and dealer margin.

Quote convention

XAU/USD

Per troy ounce, the global benchmark
Troy ounce

31.1035 g

Roughly 10% heavier than a standard ounce
Market hours

~23 / 5

Sunday evening to Friday evening, New York time

Purity

Gold price per gram by karat

Spot prices pure gold. Jewellery is alloyed, so its value by weight is the spot gram rate scaled by fineness. These figures are wholesale metal value in USD — they exclude making charges, tax and dealer margin.

Gold price per gram by karat purity, in US Dollar
Karat	Purity	Per gram (USD)
24K	99.90%	$136.22
22K	91.67%	$125.00
21K	87.50%	$119.32
18K	75.00%	$102.27
14K	58.33%	$79.54
10K	41.67%	$56.82

Methodology

How the gold rate on this page is calculated

The number above is a spot price: what one troy ounce of gold trades for right now for immediate settlement. It is not a retail price, and it is not a single exchange's quote. Here is exactly what sits behind it.

Spot is an over-the-counter consensus, not an exchange ticker

Unlike a share, gold has no single listing venue whose last trade defines the price. The overwhelming majority of physical gold changes hands over the counter between banks, refiners and brokers, settled through London vaults. The spot price is therefore a consensus of what those participants are quoting at a given instant, aggregated from the most liquid venues. Two data providers can legitimately differ by a few cents at the same timestamp for this reason — neither is wrong.

The quote is XAU/USD, per troy ounce

Gold's currency code is XAU, and it is quoted against the US dollar by convention, per troy ounce. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams — about ten percent heavier than the ounce used for groceries, which is the single most common source of confusion when people compare a spot price against a jeweller's per-gram rate.

Other currencies are conversions, not separate markets

There is no independent euro gold market setting its own price. Every non-dollar figure in the ticker is the dollar spot price multiplied by the live exchange rate for that currency. This has a practical consequence worth understanding: gold can rise in rupees while falling in dollars, purely because the rupee weakened. The metal did not move — your currency did.

The daily change is measured against the previous close

The change figure compares the current spot price with the closing price of the last completed trading session, not with midnight or with the value when you loaded the page. Gold trades nearly around the clock from Sunday evening to Friday evening New York time, so "the close" is a convention rather than a moment when trading stops. The percentage shown is calculated on the dollar series and applied across currencies, which isolates the metal's move from same-day currency drift.

Why the price you pay is always higher

Spot is a wholesale benchmark for large, standardised, vault-settled bars. A coin or a piece of jewellery adds refining, fabrication, distribution, dealer margin and, in many countries, tax. That gap is the premium, and it widens as the item gets smaller: a one-ounce bar might carry a few percent, while a one-gram coin can carry considerably more. Use spot to judge whether a premium is reasonable, never as the price you expect to be charged.

What karat means for the number you need

Spot prices pure gold. Jewellery rarely is. 24K is essentially pure, 22K is 91.67 percent gold, 18K is 75 percent and 14K is 58.33 percent, with the remainder made up of alloy metals that add hardness and colour. To value a piece by weight, multiply the spot gram price by that fineness — which is exactly what the karat table on this page does.

Questions

What people ask about the gold rate

How often does the gold price on this page update?

The displayed price refreshes automatically about once a minute without reloading the page, and the underlying market data is fetched continuously. The timestamp beneath the price always shows when the figure you are looking at was actually captured, so you never have to guess how current it is. If our data sources become unreachable, the page says so explicitly rather than quietly showing an old number.

Why does your gold price differ slightly from another site?

Because gold trades over the counter rather than on one central exchange, there is no single official price at any given second. Different providers aggregate different sets of venues and timestamp their quotes at slightly different moments. Differences of a few cents per ounce are normal and expected. Differences of several dollars usually mean one of the two figures is stale, or that one is quoting a futures contract rather than spot.

What is the difference between spot gold and gold futures?

Spot is the price for immediate delivery. A futures contract is an agreement to exchange gold on a specified date in the future, and it trades at a different price that reflects storage costs and interest rates over that period. Futures usually trade slightly above spot. Headlines quoting "gold prices" often mean the most active futures contract, which is one reason a news figure may not match a spot ticker.

How do I convert the ounce price to a price per gram or tola?

Divide the troy ounce price by 31.1034768 to get the gram price. A tola is 11.6638038 grams, so multiply the gram price by that to get a tola rate. This page does both conversions for you — switch the unit and every figure recalculates, including the karat breakdown.

Does the price include tax, making charges or dealer premium?

No. Every figure on this page is the wholesale spot benchmark for pure gold. It excludes VAT or sales tax, import duty, refining and fabrication costs, making charges on jewellery, and dealer margin. What you are quoted at a shop will be higher, and the gap is normal — spot is the baseline you measure that gap against.

Why is gold quoted in troy ounces rather than grams?

The troy ounce is a survival of the medieval Troyes fair weight system, which became the standard for precious metals in England and was never displaced by the avoirdupois ounce used for everyday goods. One troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams against 28.35 for a standard ounce. Because the London market has set the global benchmark for centuries, its unit stayed even in countries that are otherwise fully metric.

Can I use this data on my own site or in an application?

This page exposes a read-only JSON endpoint at /api/price that returns the current rate in any supported currency and weight unit. It is rate limited and intended for modest, non-commercial use. If you need guaranteed uptime, higher limits or historical series, license data directly from a market data provider rather than depending on a public endpoint.

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