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Gold price history

Gold price in 2003

Gold averaged $364 an ounce in 2003. That was +17.3% on 2002.

2003 average$364
Highest month$407Dec
Lowest month$328Apr

Gold today: …

Month by month in 2003

MonthAverage price
January$357
February$359
March$341
April$328
May$356
June$356
July$351
August$360
September$379
October$379
November$390
December$407

2003 on the long-run chart

$50$100$250$500$1,000$2,000$4,000197019801990200020102020

The large dot is 2003. 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 2003?

Gold averaged about $364 an ounce in 2003. The highest month was December ($407) and the lowest was April ($328).

How much is gold now compared with 2003?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2003 average of $364. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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