Distance from the record
This close sat 10.19% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 20 January 2022, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $1,842.50 per troy ounce on 20 January 2022, down $0.600 (0.03%) from the previous close of $1,843.10.
Gold barely moved, closing within 0.03% 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 10.19% 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 $1,865.90, making this a -1.25% move year on year.
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Gold closed at $1,842.50 per troy ounce on 20 January 2022. That is $0.60 lower than the previous close of $1,843.10, a move of -0.03%.
The gold price fell on 20 January 2022, losing $0.60 (0.03%) against the previous session's close of $1,843.10.
At $1,842.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $59.24 on 20 January 2022. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 20 January 2022 18k gold was worth about $44.43 per gram and 14k about $34.56 per gram, against $59.24 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 74.6 on 20 January 2022, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 74.6 ounces of silver.
It closed 10.19% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.