Live gold values in US dollars
Gold Value Chart
Gold trades at $4,048.80 per troy ounce as of October 28, 2026. That works out to $130.17 for a gram of pure gold, $97.63 in 18K, $75.93 in 14K and $54.24 in 10K. Scroll down to see every karat, a one-year chart and the math behind each row.
Live gold spot (XAU/USD), quoted in dollars per troy ounce
$4,048.80 / troy oz
$130.17 for each gram of pure gold
▼ -0.32% today · +1.97% past year
Last updated
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Gold Value Chart
A year of daily COMEX gold futures closes, with longer ranges one tab away. All of it is on the page already; focus the chart and press the arrow keys to step through the days.
Data sources: Spot price via api.gold-api.com · COMEX futures (GC=F) via Yahoo Finance. Prices are for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Figures on this page were generated . Gold is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.
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Gold at a glance
Today's Gold Numbers
- Day range
- $4,040.50 – $4,084.10
- 52-week high
- $5,586.20
- 52-week low
- $3,925.10
- 1-month change
- -2.56%
- 1-year change
- +1.97%
- 5-year change
- +123.56%
Recent Gold Prices
| Date | Close | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2026 | $4,061.60 | -0.32% |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $4,074.60 | +0.90% |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $4,038.40 | +0.76% |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $4,007.90 | -1.29% |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $4,060.40 | -2.16% |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $4,150.00 | +0.18% |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $4,142.60 | -0.42% |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $4,160.10 | -0.50% |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $4,181.10 | +0.26% |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $4,170.10 | +1.51% |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $4,107.90 | -1.66% |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $4,177.30 | -0.32% |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $4,190.60 | -0.61% |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $4,216.30 | +1.43% |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $4,157.00 | +0.39% |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $4,140.70 | -1.11% |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $4,187.10 | +0.73% |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $4,156.80 | -0.13% |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $4,162.30 | -0.95% |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $4,202.30 | +0.37% |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $4,186.70 | +0.17% |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $4,179.70 | +0.27% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $4,168.40 | -3.54% |
| Sep 25, 2026 | $4,321.20 | +0.54% |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $4,298.00 | -0.47% |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $4,318.40 | -1.33% |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $4,376.40 | -0.17% |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $4,383.90 | -0.93% |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $4,424.90 | +0.57% |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $4,399.70 | — |
Data sources: Spot price via api.gold-api.com · COMEX futures (GC=F) via Yahoo Finance. Prices are for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Figures on this page were generated . Gold is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.
The chart
What a gold value chart shows
A gold value chart turns one headline number, the price of a troy ounce, into the figures people actually use: what a gram is worth, what a pennyweight is worth, and what a ring or chain would be worth if it were melted down. The chart above tracks the past year of COMEX gold futures closes. The big number at the top of this page is spot, which is the price for immediate delivery. Both are in US dollars and both are stamped with the time they were last updated.
Look at the shape before the number. A line that climbs steadily tells a different story than one that jumps and settles back, even when both end at the same level. If you want the longer view, the 10-year gold price chart zooms out, and the gold price history page goes back to the year 2000 with a table of highs and lows for every year.
One caution applies to everything on this site. A value chart shows melt value: weight times purity times spot. It does not show what a store will pay you, what a coin collector might ask, or what a bar costs once a dealer adds a premium. We come back to that gap further down.
By karat
Pick your karat
Most questions start with a stamp inside a ring or on a clasp. Tap the karat that matches yours and you land on a page built around that purity, with a table for 1 to 100 grams and notes on what that karat is usually used for.
10K gold
$54.24
per gram, 41.7% gold
14K gold
$75.93
per gram, 58.3% gold
18K gold
$97.63
per gram, 75% gold
22K gold
$119.32
per gram, 91.7% gold
24K gold
$130.04
per gram, pure gold
Calculator
$759.34
10 g of 14K, melt value
If you are not sure which stamp you have, the gold purity chart maps every karat to its fineness mark and shows where the numbers are usually found on a piece.
Per gram
The value of one gram, karat by karat
Here is a single gram in each karat, with 5 and 10 gram rows beside it. Each row is linked to its own page, so you can jump straight to the karat you hold.
| Karat | Stamp | Gold | 1 gram | 5 grams | 10 grams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10K | 417 | 41.7% | $54.24 | $271.19 | $542.38 |
| 14K | 585 | 58.3% | $75.93 | $379.67 | $759.34 |
| 18K | 750 | 75.0% | $97.63 | $488.14 | $976.29 |
| 22K | 916 | 91.7% | $119.32 | $596.62 | $1,193.24 |
| 24K | 999 | 99.9% | $130.04 | $650.21 | $1,300.42 |
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Two quick reads from the table. First, the 14K row is $75.93 per gram, the figure most American jewelry questions come down to, and it has its own page at 14K gold price per gram. Second, the gap between rows is proportional to purity, nothing more. If you want the lower end, see 10K gold price per gram; if your piece feels richer in color and heavier in the hand, check 18K gold price per gram or 22K gold price per gram. Pure gold sits at 24K gold price per gram, and the side-by-side view for every karat is the gold price per gram page.
Prefer to type in your own weight? The gold value calculator takes grams, pennyweights or ounces and returns melt value at the live price.
The math
Weight, purity and spot: the three numbers behind every row
Every value on this site comes from the same three inputs, and you can reproduce any of them with a basic calculator.
Spot. This is the price of one troy ounce of pure gold, currently $4,048.80. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams, a little heavier than the ounce on a kitchen scale. The gold price per ounce page explains why the trade uses it.
Weight. Divide spot by 31.1034768 and you have the price of a gram of pure gold: $130.17. Jewelers and refiners often work in pennyweights instead, where one pennyweight is one twentieth of a troy ounce, or about 1.555 grams. At today's price that is $202.44 per pennyweight, and the gold price per pennyweight page converts every karat.
Purity. Karat counts parts of 24. A 14K piece is 14 parts gold, so 58.3% pure, and its gram is worth 14/24 of the pure-gold figure. Do that sum and you get the $75.93 in the table. A worked example: a 10 gram, 14K bracelet carries $759.34 of gold at today's spot.
Weigh the piece, read the stamp, multiply. That is the entire method. What changes minute to minute is only the first number.
Two feeds
Spot or futures: which one the chart shows
You will see two kinds of gold price quoted, and they are rarely identical. Spot is the price for gold delivered now. Futures are contracts for delivery on a later date, and the benchmark contract trades on COMEX. The headline figure and every table on this site use spot. The one-year line above plots the daily futures closes, because that is the series with a clean daily record going back years.
The two normally sit close together. At the moment the futures price is off from spot by +$12.80, which is the difference you may notice between the big number and the last point on the line. It is a feature of how the markets are quoted, not an error in the page. For a deeper explanation, the ounce page walks through why a futures quote can be above or below spot.
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Selling
Selling gold? Read the table as a ceiling
If you hold jewelry, scrap or a broken chain and want to know what it might fetch, treat every number here as the top of the range. Melt value is what the gold content is worth at spot. A buyer has to cover testing, refining, shipping and their own margin, so offers land below it. Trade sources often report refiners paying roughly 90 to 98 percent of melt on larger lots, mail-in and online buyers 70 to 90 percent, and local shops and jewelers 60 to 85 percent. Those are typical ranges, not quotes, and a pawn counter may sit well under them.
Here is how that looks in practice. A 12 pennyweight, 14K piece has $1,417.08 of melt value. An offer at 80 percent of melt would be $1,133.66. Neither figure is a promise; they show the size of the gap you should expect to negotiate.
Before you walk into a shop, do three things. Weigh the piece without stones, clasps or glued-in parts. Confirm the karat stamp, using the gold purity chart to decode marks like 585 or 417. Then run the weight through the gold value calculator so you know the number before anyone quotes you one. The 14K page and 10K page cover the two karats that account for most scrap questions.
Questions
Common questions
Why is the 14K gram price lower than the 24K one?
Because a 14K gram is only 58.3% gold. The remaining weight is copper, silver, zinc or similar metals, which add strength and color but almost no value. The gold price per gram page shows every karat side by side.
Is this the price a shop will pay me?
No. The numbers are melt value at spot, which works as a ceiling. Dealers and jewelers pay a percentage of it, and the gold value calculator helps you work out what a reasonable offer looks like.
How often does the page update?
The site is rebuilt every six hours and the big numbers re-tick every minute in your browser, each stamped with an as-of time. See the about page for the sources behind the feed.
Does the chart predict where gold goes next?
No. It records what happened, and the gold price history page lists past highs, lows and the events analysts often tie to them, without forecasting anything.
Why does a coin cost more than the table says?
Coins and bars are sold at a premium over spot to cover minting, distribution and dealer costs. Our where to buy gold guide walks through a worked example with real figures and the questions to ask any dealer.
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