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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 20 December 2018, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 25 June 2018
Gold closed at $1,263.60 per troy ounce on 20 December 2018, up $11.50 (0.92%) from the previous close of $1,252.10.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 33.10% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,266.10, making this a -0.20% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,263.60 per troy ounce on 20 December 2018. That is $11.50 higher than the previous close of $1,252.10, a move of 0.92%.
The gold price rose on 20 December 2018, gaining $11.50 (0.92%) against the previous session's close of $1,252.10.
At $1,263.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $40.63 on 20 December 2018. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 20 December 2018 18k gold was worth about $30.47 per gram and 14k about $23.70 per gram, against $40.63 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 85.7 on 20 December 2018, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 85.7 ounces of silver.
This close was session 4 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 33.10% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.
The most recent higher close was about 6 months earlier — 124 trading sessions before this one.