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Gold price history

Gold price in 2006

Gold averaged $604 an ounce in 2006. That was +35.9% on 2005.

2006 average$604
Highest month$675May
Lowest month$550Jan

Gold today: …

Month by month in 2006

MonthAverage price
January$550
February$555
March$557
April$611
May$675
June$596
July$634
August$633
September$598
October$586
November$628
December$630

2006 on the long-run chart

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

The large dot is 2006. 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 2006?

Gold averaged about $604 an ounce in 2006. The highest month was May ($675) and the lowest was January ($550).

How much is gold now compared with 2006?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2006 average of $604. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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