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Gold price history

Gold price in 2005

Gold averaged $445 an ounce in 2005. That was +8.7% on 2004.

2005 average$445
Highest month$510Dec
Lowest month$422May

Gold today: …

Month by month in 2005

MonthAverage price
January$424
February$423
March$434
April$429
May$422
June$431
July$424
August$438
September$456
October$470
November$477
December$510

2005 on the long-run chart

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

The large dot is 2005. 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 2005?

Gold averaged about $445 an ounce in 2005. The highest month was December ($510) and the lowest was May ($422).

How much is gold now compared with 2005?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2005 average of $445. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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