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Gold's Long-Run Story in India
Zoom out from any single day and gold in India has spent most of the last few decades climbing, in fits and starts rather than a straight line. Today's live 24K rate is ₹15,031.44 per gram (September 14, 2026) — the newest point on a much longer path. This page is about that path: what pushed it up, what pulled it back, and why the rupee price has climbed faster over the years than the dollar price of the same metal.
For exact per-year and per-month figures, this page points to /gold-price-history/{year} — for example 2020 or 2015 — rather than repeating a data table here. That archive is the source of record; this page is the context around it.
Today's Rate by Weight
Today's Gold rate is Fifteen Thousand Thirty One Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Gold costs One Lakh Fifty Thousand Three Hundred and Fourteen Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹15,031.44 | Fifteen Thousand Thirty One Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹120,251.52 | One Lakh Twenty Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹150,314.40 | One Lakh Fifty Thousand Three Hundred and Fourteen Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹1,503,143.98 | Fifteen Lakh Three Thousand One Hundred and Forty Four Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹15,031,439.79 | One Crore Fifty Lakh Thirty One Thousand Four Hundred and Forty Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹426,133.80 | Four Lakh Twenty Six Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Four Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹467,530.39 | Four Lakh Sixty Seven Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹15,031,439,791.00 | One Thousand Five Hundred and Three Crore Fourteen Lakh Thirty Nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One Rupees |
The Eras That Shaped Today's Price
A few stretches stand out in gold's history, and the same pattern tends to repeat: global uncertainty pushes the dollar price of gold up, and rupee weakness against the dollar pushes the India price up further on top of that. The 2008 financial crisis and the years that followed saw exactly this combination — safe-haven demand internationally, compounded locally by a softer rupee. A similar dynamic showed up again in the early 2020s, when pandemic-driven uncertainty met a period of rupee depreciation, and once more through the mid-2020s as central banks worldwide kept adding to gold reserves and geopolitical tension stayed elevated.
The corrections matter just as much as the rallies. Gold typically cools off when global interest rates rise sharply, when the dollar strengthens broadly, or when a crisis that drove safe-haven demand starts to resolve. India's own policy moves — import duty changes in particular — have added their own bumps to the domestic price on top of whatever the international market was doing that year.
None of this is unique to India. What is India-specific is the currency layer: a rupee that has depreciated against the dollar over the long run means the INR gold price has generally risen faster than the USD gold price over the same stretch, even in years when global gold barely moved.
Last 10 Recorded Days
The most recent Gold price on record (2026-09-14) is Fifteen Thousand Thirty One Rupees per gram. This is down by Two Hundred and Sixty Nine Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹15,300.41.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-14 | ₹15,031.44 | -268.97 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹15,300.41 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹15,300.41 | -46.74 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹15,347.15 | +66.38 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹15,280.77 | -141.47 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹15,422.24 | +121.11 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹15,301.14 | -1.46 |
| 2026-09-07 | ₹15,302.59 | -8.75 |
| 2026-09-06 | ₹15,311.34 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-05 | ₹15,311.34 | — |
A Note on How Far Back the Data Goes
This site's daily-recorded pricing starts on 5 April 2025. Everything before that — all the way back to 1926 — is a reconstructed historical estimate: one representative figure per year for the older decades, narrowing to one per month closer to the present, built from RBI, World Gold Council and IBJA archives. It's a genuinely useful benchmark for understanding where gold stood in a given year, but it isn't the same thing as a recorded daily quote, and the year-by-year archive says so on every page rather than blurring the two together.
If you're comparing eras rather than days, that distinction usually doesn't change the conclusion — the direction of the multi-year moves described above holds either way. But if you need a number precise enough to reconcile against an old invoice or a specific transaction date, treat pre-2025 figures as an estimate of the period, not a substitute for whatever was actually quoted that day.
Historical Gold Prices — FAQs
This page is the narrative behind gold's long-run move in India — what drove the big up-and-down stretches over the years — rather than a repeat of the numbers. Today's live 24K rate is ₹15,031.44 per gram (September 14, 2026); for the exact recorded or estimated figure in any past year, use the year-by-year archive linked below.
No, and it's worth being upfront about that. Data from 5 April 2025 onward is daily recorded pricing. Anything before that — back through the decades to 1926 — is a reconstructed historical estimate: one representative figure per year for the older stretch, one per month closer to the present, built from RBI, World Gold Council and IBJA archives rather than a live daily feed. Treat those older figures as a reasonable benchmark for the period, not a quote you could have traded on that exact day.
A handful of repeating forces: rupee depreciation against the dollar (which alone pushes up the INR price even when the metal is flat globally), import duty changes, stretches of global risk-off buying during financial crises and geopolitical shocks, and — more recently — sustained central bank gold buying. None of these move in isolation; a weak rupee during a global rally tends to produce the sharpest domestic jumps.
Gold price history in India is built from the 24K spot rate in INR per gram, which tracks LBMA gold benchmarks, the USD/INR exchange rate, and MCX gold futures. Import duty, GST, and local premiums widen the gap between this benchmark and what a jeweller actually bills.
The Gold Price Chart page is the visual 10-day trend, and Gold Price Yesterday is a same-day comparison against a single prior close. This page is the only one of the three built around multiple years.
