Gold price history
Gold price in 2025
Gold averaged $3,442 an ounce in 2025. That was +44.1% on 2024.
Gold today: …
What happened in 2025
Another year of records. Gold passed $4,000 in October 2025.
Month by month in 2025
| Month | Average price |
|---|---|
| January | $2,710 |
| February | $2,895 |
| March | $2,983 |
| April | $3,218 |
| May | $3,309 |
| June | $3,353 |
| July | $3,340 |
| August | $3,368 |
| September | $3,668 |
| October | $4,058 |
| November | $4,087 |
| December | $4,309 |
2025 on the long-run chart
The large dot is 2025. 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 2025?
Gold averaged about $3,442 an ounce in 2025. The highest month was December ($4,309) and the lowest was January ($2,710).
How much is gold now compared with 2025?
See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 2025 average of $3,442. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.
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