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Gold price history

Gold price in 1993

Gold averaged $360 an ounce in 1993. That was +4.7% on 1992.

1993 average$360
Highest month$392Jul
Lowest month$329Jan

Gold today: …

Month by month in 1993

MonthAverage price
January$329
February$329
March$330
April$342
May$367
June$372
July$392
August$379
September$355
October$364
November$374
December$383

1993 on the long-run chart

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The large dot is 1993. Yearly averages, log scale.

Yearly and monthly figures are averages of daily prices, in US dollars per troy ounce. Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0, via the open gold-prices dataset. Daily highs and lows were higher and lower than the monthly averages. Latest month in the data: September 2026.

Questions people ask

What was the price of gold in 1993?

Gold averaged about $360 an ounce in 1993. The highest month was July ($392) and the lowest was January ($329).

How much is gold now compared with 1993?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 1993 average of $360. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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