Gold price history
Gold price in 2000
Gold averaged $279 an ounce in 2000. That was +0.1% on 1999.
Gold today: …
Month by month in 2000
| Month | Average price |
|---|---|
| January | $284 |
| February | $300 |
| March | $286 |
| April | $280 |
| May | $275 |
| June | $286 |
| July | $282 |
| August | $274 |
| September | $274 |
| October | $270 |
| November | $266 |
| December | $271 |
2000 on the long-run chart
The large dot is 2000. 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 2000?
Gold averaged about $279 an ounce in 2000. The highest month was February ($300) and the lowest was November ($266).
How much is gold now compared with 2000?
See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2000 average of $279. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.
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