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Tin Price — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
What Actually Moves the Tin Price
Tin sits at ₹4.55 per gram today, September 17, 2026, and behind that single number is one demand story doing most of the work, plus a supply base concentrated in a handful of countries. Understand those two things and the rest of tin's price behaviour mostly falls into place.
The starting point for the number itself is the international benchmark set on the London Metal Exchange, converted into rupees at the prevailing USD/INR rate. Everything below explains what pushes that benchmark up or down before the currency conversion even happens.
- Today's rate, 1 gram: ₹4.55
- Today's rate, 1 kilogram: ₹4,552.16
Tin Price by Weight
Today's Tin rate is Five Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Tin costs Forty Six Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹4.55 | Five Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹36.42 | Thirty Six Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹45.52 | Forty Six Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹455.22 | Four Hundred and Fifty Five Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹4,552.16 | Four Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹129.05 | One Hundred and Twenty Nine Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹141.59 | One Hundred and Forty Two Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹4,552,158.00 | Forty Five Lakh Fifty Two Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Eight Rupees |
The Demand Side: Electronics Manufacturing Leads by a Wide Margin
Tin's largest single use, by far, is solder — the alloy that physically joins components onto printed circuit boards. Every phone, laptop, appliance and piece of industrial electronics manufactured anywhere in the world relies on solder somewhere inside it, and tin is the base metal that solder is built from. When global electronics and semiconductor production runs strong, tin demand tends to follow closely.
A demand base narrower than most other industrial metals
That concentration cuts both ways. A metal like copper or aluminium draws demand from construction, transport, packaging and electrical wiring all at once, so a slowdown in any single sector rarely moves the whole market. Tin doesn't have that same cushion — its price is more directly exposed to the health of one industry, electronics manufacturing, than most other base metals are exposed to any single sector.
Older uses — tin plating on steel for corrosion-resistant cans, and bronze, the ancient copper-tin alloy still used in bearings and marine fittings — add a real but comparatively steady layer of demand underneath the larger, more cyclical electronics story.
Tin Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Tin price on record (2026-09-17) is Five Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹4.53.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹4.55 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹4.53 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹4.56 | -0.13 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹4.69 | -0.04 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹4.74 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹4.73 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹4.77 | -0.03 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹4.79 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹4.78 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹4.76 | — |
The Supply Side: A Short List of Major Producers
On supply, a handful of countries account for most of what reaches the global market. China and Indonesia are the two most significant tin-producing countries, with Myanmar and Peru also contributing real, established volumes. That is a shorter list of major producers than some other base metals have, and it means a policy shift, an export change, or a disruption concentrated in one of the larger producers tends to move world tin prices more than an equivalent event would for a metal whose mining is spread across many countries in roughly even shares.
Put together — a demand base leaning heavily on one industry, sitting on top of a supply base concentrated in a few countries — and it becomes easier to see why tin's price can move on news that, at first glance, has nothing to do with metal markets at all: a strong quarter for chipmakers, a shift in consumer electronics sales, or a supply update out of one of the major producing countries.
What Affects Tin Price — FAQs
Solder for electronics manufacturing. Tin-based solder alloys join components onto circuit boards throughout the electronics industry, and this use case accounts for the largest share of global tin demand by a wide margin, ahead of every other application combined.
Because solder is tin's dominant use, tin demand tracks the health of global electronics and semiconductor manufacturing closely. A strong stretch for chip production or consumer electronics tends to lift tin demand fairly directly; a slowdown in that industry tends to show up in tin demand sooner than it would in a metal with a more diversified set of end uses.
China and Indonesia are the two most significant tin-producing countries, with Myanmar and Peru also contributing meaningfully to global supply. Because production is concentrated in a relatively short list of countries, a disruption or policy shift in any one of the larger producers can move world prices more than an equivalent shift would for a metal with a broader, more evenly spread supply base.
Yes. The domestic rate starts from the international tin benchmark, set on the London Metal Exchange, converted into rupees at the day's USD/INR exchange rate. A weaker rupee raises the India-side rate even if the international benchmark hasn't moved at all, and a stronger rupee works the other way.
They contribute to overall demand but represent a much smaller share than solder. Tin plating on steel for corrosion-resistant cans, and bronze — the copper-tin alloy used in bearings and marine hardware — are both genuine, longstanding uses, but neither moves the price the way a shift in electronics manufacturing demand does.
