Gold price history in India
Daily closing rates we have recorded from the IBJA benchmark, per 10 grams, excluding GST
This page lists every trading day's rate we have recorded, using the last update of each day. It is useful for seeing whether today's price is high or low compared with recent weeks before you buy, sell or pledge gold. For how these figures are produced, see how we calculate gold rates.
Daily rates
| Date | 24K / 10g | 22K / 10g | 18K / 10g | 24K change |
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International gold price — last 90 days
This is a different measurement from everything above, and it is here because it is the single biggest influence on the Indian rate. It is the international gold price from our own data provider, converted to rupees per gram at each day's exchange rate. Unlike our benchmark record, this series goes back far enough to show a trend today.
It is not a price you could buy at. It carries no customs duty, no GST, no making charges and no local premium — which is why it sits well below the Indian benchmark.
How far below? On 23 October 2026 the IBJA benchmark stood about 15.5% above the international figure for the previous day. That is close to the 15% import duty on gold, which plausibly accounts for most of the gap, though we are not claiming it accounts for all of it. One comparison is not a pattern: we have only been recording the benchmark under our current method since October 2026, so we cannot yet show you that relationship holding across time. As the record above lengthens, you will be able to check it for yourself — which is the honest version of a claim most rate sites simply assert.
Read this chart for the shape rather than the level. It is the clearest view available here of what actually moves the Indian rate day to day.
Reading this data
Each row is one trading day. The date is the day the rate was recorded; the three price columns are the last rate we recorded that day for 24K, 22K and 18K per 10 grams; and the change column is the 24K movement against the previous recorded day, not against the previous calendar day. On a Monday, that comparison is with Friday.
Gaps in the dates are not missing data. Gold has no new Indian benchmark on a day the market did not poll, so weekends and market holidays have no entry at all rather than a repeated figure. If you are counting days between two rows, count the rows rather than the calendar.
Why a single day sometimes jumps
Day-to-day moves in the Indian gold price mostly come from two things: the international gold price in US dollars and the rupee's exchange rate. A weaker rupee raises the Indian price even when the global price is flat, which is why the Indian series and the international one do not always agree about which way the day went.
The exception is import duty. A change in the duty on imported gold steps the domestic price on the day it takes effect, with no corresponding move internationally — so an unusually large one-day change in this table may be a tax change rather than a market one. The gold rate page explains the four drivers in more detail, including the most recent duty revision.
Why this record starts in October 2026
Because we threw the earlier data away, and we would rather say so than quietly backfill it.
An earlier version of this site computed its stored rates with a formula we later found to be wrong. Those entries still exist in our storage, but this page ignores them and always will — a long history is worth nothing if part of it is miscalculated, and silently correcting it after the fact would leave you unable to tell which rows had been touched. The series therefore begins when we moved to the IBJA benchmark and starts short on purpose. It lengthens by one row per trading day.
If you need Indian gold prices from before that date, go to a source that was recording them correctly at the time. We are not one.
What this history can and cannot tell you
It can tell you where today's benchmark sits against recent weeks, which is genuinely useful if you are deciding whether to buy now or wait, negotiating against a quote, or working out what a pledged piece is likely to be valued at. Comparing a jeweller's quote against the benchmark on the same day is the single most useful thing on this page.
It cannot tell you where the price is going. We publish no forecast, no target and no buy-or-sell view, and a run of rising rows is not evidence that the next row will rise too. It also is not a record of what anything actually sold for: every figure here is the benchmark, before making charges, GST and any wastage. The gap between this table and a real bill is covered in how we calculate our rates.
One further limit worth stating plainly: this is the national benchmark, and we apply no city premium to it, so there is no separate history per city to show you.
Today's rate in your city
This page tracks the national benchmark. For today's live rate with a calculator, local market detail and city-specific buying advice, see Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Kochi.
If you are checking a piece you already own or are about to buy, our BIS hallmark and HUID guide covers how to verify that the purity you are paying for is the purity you are getting.