Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 28 May 2021, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 7 January 2021
Gold closed at $1,902.50 per troy ounce on 28 May 2021, up $6.800 (0.36%) from the previous close of $1,895.70.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 7.26% 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 6 of 251 sessions.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,713.30, making this a +11.04% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,902.50 per troy ounce on 28 May 2021. That is $6.80 higher than the previous close of $1,895.70, a move of 0.36%.
The gold price rose on 28 May 2021, gaining $6.80 (0.36%) against the previous session's close of $1,895.70.
At $1,902.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $61.17 on 28 May 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 28 May 2021 18k gold was worth about $45.88 per gram and 14k about $35.68 per gram, against $61.17 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 68.0 on 28 May 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 68.0 ounces of silver.
A month before 28 May 2021, gold was around $1,773.20 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,902.50 is a gain of 7.3% over the month.
It closed 7.26% 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 — 97 trading sessions before this one.