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Gold price history

Gold price in 2002

Gold averaged $310 an ounce in 2002. That was +14.5% on 2001.

2002 average$310
Highest month$332Dec
Lowest month$282Jan

Gold today: …

Month by month in 2002

MonthAverage price
January$282
February$296
March$294
April$303
May$314
June$321
July$313
August$310
September$319
October$317
November$319
December$332

2002 on the long-run chart

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The large dot is 2002. 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 2002?

Gold averaged about $310 an ounce in 2002. The highest month was December ($332) and the lowest was January ($282).

How much is gold now compared with 2002?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2002 average of $310. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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