Gold price history
Gold price in 2015
Gold averaged $1,161 an ounce in 2015. That was −8.3% on 2014.
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What happened in 2015
Gold fell to about $1,050 in December 2015, its lowest in six years, as the Fed raised rates for the first time since 2006.
Month by month in 2015
| Month | Average price |
|---|---|
| January | $1,251 |
| February | $1,227 |
| March | $1,179 |
| April | $1,199 |
| May | $1,199 |
| June | $1,182 |
| July | $1,128 |
| August | $1,118 |
| September | $1,125 |
| October | $1,159 |
| November | $1,086 |
| December | $1,076 |
2015 on the long-run chart
The large dot is 2015. 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 2015?
Gold averaged about $1,161 an ounce in 2015. The highest month was January ($1,251) and the lowest was December ($1,076).
How much is gold now compared with 2015?
See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2015 average of $1,161. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.
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