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No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 20 May 2021, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 January 2021
Gold closed at $1,881.80 per troy ounce on 20 May 2021, up $0.500 (0.03%) from the previous close of $1,881.30.
This close extended a run of 6 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 8.27% 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 $1,750.60, making this a +7.49% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,881.80 per troy ounce on 20 May 2021. That is $0.50 higher than the previous close of $1,881.30, a move of 0.03%.
The gold price rose on 20 May 2021, gaining $0.50 (0.03%) against the previous session's close of $1,881.30.
At $1,881.80 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $60.50 on 20 May 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 20 May 2021 18k gold was worth about $45.38 per gram and 14k about $35.29 per gram, against $60.50 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 67.1 on 20 May 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 67.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 20 May 2021, gold was around $1,823.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,881.80 is a gain of 3.2% over the week.
A month before 20 May 2021, gold was around $1,777.30 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,881.80 is a gain of 5.9% over the month.
This close was session 6 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 8.27% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.
The most recent higher close was about 4 months earlier — 91 trading sessions before this one.