The 10-Year Gold Price Chart
$4,048.80 per troy ounce, today
Record close $5,318.40 on January 29, 2026
Gold spot $4,048.80/oz · updated
Quick answer: Gold is $4,048.80 per troy ounce as of October 28, 2026. Over the past ten years it has climbed, with bumps, to a record close of $5,318.40 on January 29, 2026. The chart below plots every daily close in that window, so you can read the climb for yourself rather than rely on a headline.
Ten years on one line
The chart shows COMEX gold futures closes in US dollars per ounce for the last ten years. The vertical axis is dollars; the horizontal axis is time. Hover over the line to see a date and a close.
Gold price, past ten years
Ten years of COMEX gold futures closes: month-end closes before the last five years, weekly closes after that. Focus the chart and press the arrow keys to step through it.
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 decade's high, low and distance travelled
Three numbers summarize any window of prices: where it started, the highest point and the lowest. Read the start and the low straight off the left side of the chart above. The decade's high is the record close of $5,318.40, set on January 29, 2026, with an intraday peak of $5,586.20 reached the same day. Since that close, the lowest close has been $3,992.10 on July 16, 2026, a decline of 23.6% from the peak.
You can also express the move as a ratio. From the start of 2000 to today, gold has risen about 14 times, as the price history page shows year by year. A ten-year window captures only the most recent part of that climb, which is why it looks steeper than the full record in places and flatter in others.
Reading a 10-year line against a 1-year line
A one-year chart magnifies the recent past. Two or three weeks of moves can look dramatic because they fill a large part of the picture. A ten-year line compresses the same weeks into a few pixels, so they look small unless they are very large.
Neither picture is the true one. They answer different questions. The one-year view, on our gold value chart home page, is for gauging the last few months. The ten-year view is for putting today's price in context: how high it is compared with where it was, and how long it took to get here.
A practical check helps. When the headline price has just made a dramatic move, flip to the longer chart before drawing any conclusion. Often the move still matters, but sometimes it is a small ripple on a larger trend, or a return to an earlier level.
Log scale versus linear scale
Price charts are most often drawn on a linear vertical axis, the common default, where equal dollar distances look the same anywhere on the page. That makes a $100 rise look equally large at $1,200 and at $4,000, even though $100 is a bigger share of the first price than the second.
A logarithmic axis fixes that by showing equal percentage moves as equal distances. On a log chart the climb of recent years looks gentler, because the early part of the decade carries more weight. If you care about proportional change, imagine the log view: a rise from $1,200 to $2,400 is a doubling, and so is $2,400 to $4,800, and each takes up the same height.
Why the last year looks different from the decade
A decade-long line smooths over what is happening now. The most recent year includes the latest high, the drop since that high and the rebound or continued slide that followed. On a ten-year chart those events sit on the right edge and take up very little room.
That is not a flaw. It is the cost of zooming out. If you only need the current price and recent direction, the price per ounce page gives the live number. If you need a conversion for something in your hand, the price per gram page converts it by karat.
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What this chart cannot tell you
A ten-year line cannot tell you whether the next ten years will rhyme with these. It cannot account for what the dollar can buy in each year, because the vertical axis is in nominal dollars. It uses futures closes rather than spot, so individual points can differ slightly from the spot number printed in the hero. And it shows the price of gold, not the value of any piece you own, which depends on its weight, its karat and what a buyer will pay.
Frequently asked questions
How much has gold risen over the last 10 years?
The chart above lets you read the start and end points directly. In broad terms, it climbed to the record close of $5,318.40. The exact change depends on the start date you choose, so treat any summary as a range, not a precise figure.
What was the highest point in the past decade?
The record close in our data is $5,318.40 on January 29, 2026. The intraday peak, a momentary price, was $5,586.20, reached the same day.
Has gold fallen since its peak?
Yes. The lowest close after the peak was $3,992.10 on July 16, 2026, which is 23.6% below the record close. The history page shows the same decline against the full record.
Is this a spot chart?
No, it plots COMEX futures closes. The number at the top of the page is spot. The two differ by a small gap, which our ounce page explains.
Why use ten years rather than five or twenty?
Ten years is long enough to cover a complete swing, from a trough to a record, yet short enough that recent events remain visible. The longer record, from 2000, is on the history page for anyone who wants more context.
Can I use this chart to decide when to buy or sell?
It is a record of past closes, not a signal. It should inform how you think about the present price, and it carries no forecast.
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.