Gold price history
Gold price in 2012
Gold averaged $1,670 an ounce in 2012. That was +6.4% on 2011.
Gold today: …
Month by month in 2012
| Month | Average price |
|---|---|
| January | $1,654 |
| February | $1,745 |
| March | $1,676 |
| April | $1,649 |
| May | $1,589 |
| June | $1,599 |
| July | $1,594 |
| August | $1,630 |
| September | $1,745 |
| October | $1,747 |
| November | $1,722 |
| December | $1,685 |
2012 on the long-run chart
The large dot is 2012. 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 2012?
Gold averaged about $1,670 an ounce in 2012. The highest month was October ($1,747) and the lowest was May ($1,589).
How much is gold now compared with 2012?
See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2012 average of $1,670. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.
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