Gold price records – the highest prices of all time
The highest gold price ever, the ten highest daily closing prices and the biggest daily moves since 1999. Everything shown per gram in your chosen currency and updated automatically.
Gold price per gram – recent years
The 10 highest closing prices ever
Daily closing prices per gram, sorted by price.
| # | Date | Price per gram |
|---|---|---|
| Loading records… | ||
The biggest daily moves
The ten biggest percentage changes from one trading day to the next — up and down.
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| Loading moves… | |
About records and what they mean
The dataset goes back to 4 January 1999. From that bottom to today, gold has risen more than sevenfold — without any central bank or fund being able to predict the exact route along the way.
Records come in waves
Most records were set in tight clusters: 1980 (after inflation shocks and the Iran crisis), 2011 (after the financial crisis and the eurozone crisis), August 2020 (Covid) and the spring rallies of 2024–2025. In between, the price has often stood still or fallen for several years — worth remembering when a record makes headlines that promise future rises.
Nominal is not real
The record figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation. In purchasing power, gold's 1980 price corresponded to a considerably higher price today. Measured in real terms, the 1980 peak still exceeds everything we've seen since, even though nominal records have been broken many times.
Questions and answers
What is the highest gold price ever?
You'll find the exact record with date in the table above. The record is updated automatically every time the price reaches a new peak.
Is the record measured in kroner or dollars?
The figures on this page are shown in your chosen currency. Because the exchange rate between kroner, euro and dollar moves, the record date can look different across the three currencies — a dollar record set on a day with a weak dollar may have been beaten earlier when measured in kroner.
Why does gold rise the most in times of crisis?
Gold pays no interest and yields no return, so it becomes relatively attractive when interest rates and returns on shares and bonds fall — and when uncertainty about currencies and banks rises. That's why records tend to cluster around crises and periods of loose monetary policy.