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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 26 May 2021, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 January 2021
Gold closed at $1,901.30 per troy ounce on 26 May 2021, up $3.200 (0.17%) from the previous close of $1,898.10.
This close extended a run of 3 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 7.32% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2020-08-06.
One of the ten highest gold closes of that year, ranking 7 of 251 sessions.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,704.80, making this a +11.53% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,901.30 per troy ounce on 26 May 2021. That is $3.20 higher than the previous close of $1,898.10, a move of 0.17%.
The gold price rose on 26 May 2021, gaining $3.20 (0.17%) against the previous session's close of $1,898.10.
At $1,901.30 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $61.13 on 26 May 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 26 May 2021 18k gold was worth about $45.85 per gram and 14k about $35.66 per gram, against $61.13 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 68.3 on 26 May 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 68.3 ounces of silver.
A month before 26 May 2021, gold was around $1,779.20 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,901.30 is a gain of 6.9% over the month.
This close was session 3 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 7.32% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2020-08-06.
The most recent higher close was about 5 months earlier — 95 trading sessions before this one.