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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 24 May 2021, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 January 2021
Gold closed at $1,884.60 per troy ounce on 24 May 2021, up $7.900 (0.42%) from the previous close of $1,876.70.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 8.14% 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 $1,734.60, making this a +8.65% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,884.60 per troy ounce on 24 May 2021. That is $7.90 higher than the previous close of $1,876.70, a move of 0.42%.
The gold price rose on 24 May 2021, gaining $7.90 (0.42%) against the previous session's close of $1,876.70.
At $1,884.60 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $60.59 on 24 May 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 24 May 2021 18k gold was worth about $45.44 per gram and 14k about $35.34 per gram, against $60.59 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 67.6 on 24 May 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 67.6 ounces of silver.
A month before 24 May 2021, gold was around $1,777.00 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,884.60 is a gain of 6.1% over the month.
It closed 8.14% 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 — 93 trading sessions before this one.