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Gold price history

Gold price in 2018

Gold averaged $1,269 an ounce in 2018. That was +0.9% on 2017.

2018 average$1,269
Highest month$1,335Apr
Lowest month$1,198Sep

Gold today: …

Month by month in 2018

MonthAverage price
January$1,331
February$1,331
March$1,325
April$1,335
May$1,303
June$1,282
July$1,238
August$1,202
September$1,198
October$1,215
November$1,221
December$1,250

2018 on the long-run chart

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

The large dot is 2018. 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 2018?

Gold averaged about $1,269 an ounce in 2018. The highest month was April ($1,335) and the lowest was September ($1,198).

How much is gold now compared with 2018?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2018 average of $1,269. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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