Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 20 April 2007, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 12 May 2006
Gold closed at $692.00 per troy ounce on 20 April 2007, up $7.700 (1.13%) from the previous close of $684.30.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
Gold moved the opposite way to the session before it. Single-day reversals are common and usually mean little on their own — what matters is whether the next few sessions follow.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 3.86% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2006-05-11.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $619.80, making this a +11.65% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $692.00 per troy ounce on 20 April 2007. That is $7.70 higher than the previous close of $684.30, a move of 1.13%.
The gold price rose on 20 April 2007, gaining $7.70 (1.13%) against the previous session's close of $684.30.
At $692.00 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $22.25 on 20 April 2007. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 20 April 2007 18k gold was worth about $16.69 per gram and 14k about $12.98 per gram, against $22.25 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 49.6 on 20 April 2007, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 49.6 ounces of silver.
A month before 20 April 2007, gold was around $657.90 per troy ounce, so the close of $692.00 is a gain of 5.2% over the month.
It closed 3.86% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2006-05-11.
The most recent higher close was about 11 months earlier — 236 trading sessions before this one.