Historical gold price: performance and returns
Historical gold prices in US dollars with 1-, 5- and 10-year comparisons, long-term performance and a calculator for your own starting amount.
Actual stored observations without invented intermediate values.
Historical gold-price performance
Current market dataAug 15, 2026, 2:05 PMSource: Gold API
- Change
- $2,714.19 · +163.32 %
- Average per year
- +6.65 %
- Starting value
- $1,661.87Jul 29, 2011
- Ending value
- $4,376.06Aug 15, 2026
Jul 29, 2011Observation periodAug 15, 2026
Price per troy ounce
Gold price in USD
Min–Max: $1,067.98 – $5,230.74Available series: Jul 29, 2011 – Aug 15, 2026.
Calculate your historical return →What the series shows
Gold Update stores the available series from 29 July 2011. The view shows actual observations and never invents missing values, so we do not advertise periods our data does not cover.
Use your own amount
The historical return calculator finds the nearest available observation to a selected date. It explains an illustrative nominal development without making a forecast.
A reusable data analysis
Our compact analysis transparently shows how an illustrative starting amount would have developed since the beginning of the stored series.