Price on Any Date
Look up the closing price of gold, silver, platinum and palladium on any date — a birthday, a wedding, a market crash — and see what it was on the same day in earlier years.
Pick any date since April 1968 to see that day’s closing price; for comparison, gold is $4,363.20 per troy ounce as of 7:11 PM ET on September 22, 2026.
- Silver
- $49.00
- Gold today
- $4,363.20 · 5.13×
Gold on this day in earlier years
| Years earlier | Date | Gold | Change to 1980 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1979-01-19 | $230.55 | 268.7% |
| 5 years | 1975-01-21 | $175.75 | 383.6% |
| 10 years | 1970-01-21 | $34.85 | 2339.0% |
Live today: Gold $4,363.20 · Silver $67.31 · Platinum $1,839.00 · Palladium $1,310.60
Where the prices come from
Daily closes from the same series as the gold price history page: LBMA fixes for the earlier decades, continued with Metals.dev daily closes. Markets are shut on weekends and holidays, so a date without a trading session shows the last close before it. Prices are nominal US dollars per troy ounce.
How it’s calculated
Closing price on the date (or the last trading day before it) from daily LBMA fixes and Metals.dev closes; change = (later − earlier) ÷ earlier.
Prices are live spot from Metals.dev; dealer bid and ask from Texas Precious Metals; crypto from CoinGecko. Every figure on this page is timestamped and nothing is estimated when a feed is unavailable.
Frequently asked questions
What was the price of gold on a specific date?
Enter the date above. The tool returns that day’s closing price in US dollars per troy ounce, or the last trading day’s close if markets were shut.
How far back does the data go?
Gold and silver daily closes go back to 1968, platinum and palladium to 1990.
Why does it show a different date from the one I picked?
There is no price on weekends and market holidays, so the tool uses the most recent trading day before your date and says so.
All calculations use live market prices and are estimates. Actual dealer prices, premiums and refining charges vary. Nothing on this page is investment advice.