Gold price history
Gold price in 2011
Gold averaged $1,569 an ounce in 2011. That was +28.1% on 2010.
Gold today: …
What happened in 2011
Gold hit a record of about $1,900 in September 2011, after the financial crisis and the US debt-ceiling fight.
Month by month in 2011
| Month | Average price |
|---|---|
| January | $1,360 |
| February | $1,375 |
| March | $1,423 |
| April | $1,481 |
| May | $1,513 |
| June | $1,529 |
| July | $1,573 |
| August | $1,759 |
| September | $1,772 |
| October | $1,666 |
| November | $1,739 |
| December | $1,640 |
2011 on the long-run chart
The large dot is 2011. 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 2011?
Gold averaged about $1,569 an ounce in 2011. The highest month was September ($1,772) and the lowest was January ($1,360).
How much is gold now compared with 2011?
See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2011 average of $1,569. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.
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