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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 27 January 2006, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $558.70 per troy ounce on 27 January 2006, down $1.000 (0.18%) from the previous close of $559.70.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $426.30, making this a +31.06% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $558.70 per troy ounce on 27 January 2006. That is $1.00 lower than the previous close of $559.70, a move of -0.18%.
The gold price fell on 27 January 2006, losing $1.00 (0.18%) against the previous session's close of $559.70.
At $558.70 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $17.96 on 27 January 2006. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 27 January 2006 18k gold was worth about $13.47 per gram and 14k about $10.48 per gram, against $17.96 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 58.4 on 27 January 2006, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 58.4 ounces of silver.
A month before 27 January 2006, gold was around $508.00 per troy ounce, so the close of $558.70 is a gain of 10.0% over the month.
A year before 27 January 2006, gold was around $426.30 per troy ounce. The close of $558.70 therefore represents a rise of 31.1% over twelve months.
It closed 0.62% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2006-01-25.