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Gold price history

Gold price in 2010

Gold averaged $1,225 an ounce in 2010. That was +25.9% on 2009.

2010 average$1,225
Highest month$1,391Dec
Lowest month$1,095Feb

Gold today: …

Month by month in 2010

MonthAverage price
January$1,118
February$1,095
March$1,113
April$1,149
May$1,205
June$1,233
July$1,193
August$1,216
September$1,271
October$1,342
November$1,370
December$1,391

2010 on the long-run chart

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

The large dot is 2010. 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 2010?

Gold averaged about $1,225 an ounce in 2010. The highest month was December ($1,391) and the lowest was February ($1,095).

How much is gold now compared with 2010?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2010 average of $1,225. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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