Distance from the record
This close sat 7.45% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
This page is a historical record of the gold price in 18 February 2022, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,898.60 per troy ounce on 18 February 2022, down $2.100 (0.11%) from the previous close of $1,900.70.
Gold barely moved, closing within 0.11% of the previous session. Flat days are the majority of any price series and are most useful as the baseline the notable days are measured against.
This close sat 7.45% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,773.40, making this a +7.06% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,898.60 per troy ounce on 18 February 2022. That is $2.10 lower than the previous close of $1,900.70, a move of -0.11%.
The gold price fell on 18 February 2022, losing $2.10 (0.11%) against the previous session's close of $1,900.70.
At $1,898.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $61.04 on 18 February 2022. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 18 February 2022 18k gold was worth about $45.78 per gram and 14k about $35.61 per gram, against $61.04 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 79.1 on 18 February 2022, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 79.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 18 February 2022, gold was around $1,840.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,898.60 is a gain of 3.1% over the week.
It closed 7.45% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.