Gold price history
Gold price in 2022
Gold averaged $1,801 an ounce in 2022. That was +0.1% on 2021.
Gold today: …
What happened in 2022
Gold stayed fairly flat while the Fed raised rates fast. A strong dollar held it back.
Month by month in 2022
| Month | Average price |
|---|---|
| January | $1,816 |
| February | $1,856 |
| March | $1,948 |
| April | $1,937 |
| May | $1,849 |
| June | $1,837 |
| July | $1,733 |
| August | $1,765 |
| September | $1,681 |
| October | $1,664 |
| November | $1,725 |
| December | $1,798 |
2022 on the long-run chart
The large dot is 2022. 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 2022?
Gold averaged about $1,801 an ounce in 2022. The highest month was March ($1,948) and the lowest was October ($1,664).
How much is gold now compared with 2022?
See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2022 average of $1,801. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.
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