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Zinc Price — 10-Day Trend
All prices in ₹ per gram · daily rate, updated once per day
What Actually Moves the Zinc Price
Zinc sits at ₹0.33 per gram in India today, September 17, 2026, and understanding what pushes that number up or down starts with one fact: zinc has almost no investment demand pulling on it. No jewellery counters, no safe-haven buying during a market scare, no festival-season rush. What affects zinc price is, overwhelmingly, the physical economy — how much of it factories, builders, and manufacturers actually need this quarter.
That makes zinc's price behaviour genuinely different from gold or silver, and closer in spirit to copper or aluminium — LME-traded base metals whose fortunes rise and fall with industrial activity rather than sentiment.
Zinc Price by Weight
Today's Zinc rate is Less than One Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Zinc costs Three Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹0.33 | Less than One Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹2.67 | Three Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹3.34 | Three Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹33.38 | Thirty Three Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹333.77 | Three Hundred and Thirty Four Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹9.46 | Nine Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹10.38 | Ten Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹333,767.00 | Three Lakh Thirty Three Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Seven Rupees |
Demand Side: Galvanizing Leads, Everything Else Follows
Galvanizing — coating steel and iron with a protective layer of zinc to stop rust and corrosion — accounts for zinc's largest single chunk of demand, by a wide margin. It shows up everywhere: construction steel, automotive body panels, guardrails, pipes, and any infrastructure exposed to weather over years or decades. When construction activity slows in a major economy, galvanizing demand slows with it, and that shows up in the zinc price before most other signals catch up.
The smaller demand pockets still matter
Die-casting alloys are the second real demand driver — zinc alloy gets used for precision-molded components in automotive parts and consumer products, a market that tracks manufacturing output more than construction specifically. Zinc-based batteries round out the list as a smaller, but genuine, source of demand. None of these three is a mystery input; they're straightforward industrial consumption patterns that respond to how busy factories and construction sites actually are.
Zinc Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Zinc price on record (2026-09-17) is Less than One Rupees per gram.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹0.33 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹0.33 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹0.33 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹0.33 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹0.34 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹0.34 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹0.34 | 0.00 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹0.34 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹0.35 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹0.35 | — |
Supply Side and the Currency Layer
On supply, a short list of countries carries outsized weight. China, Peru, and Australia are among the largest zinc producers globally, and because output is concentrated rather than spread evenly across dozens of countries, a mine closure, a smelter maintenance cycle, or a policy shift in any one of them can move the international price more than an equivalent event would in a less concentrated market.
Underneath all of that sits currency. Zinc trades in US dollars on the London Metal Exchange, and the rupee figure quoted in India runs through the day's USD/INR exchange rate before anything else is added. A weakening rupee can lift the local zinc price even on a day when the LME benchmark itself barely moves — a factor that has nothing to do with galvanizing or die-casting demand at all, but shows up in the final number regardless.
What Affects Zinc Price — FAQs
Galvanizing demand. Coating steel and iron with zinc to prevent corrosion is zinc's dominant use by a wide margin, so the pace of construction and automotive manufacturing — the two sectors that consume the most galvanized steel — has an outsized effect on demand for the metal.
China, Peru, and Australia are among the largest zinc-producing countries, so mine output, smelter capacity, and any disruption in those markets carries real weight on the global supply side of the price equation.
Yes, directly. The India-side rate of ₹0.33 per gram starts from the international LME zinc price and gets converted using the day's USD/INR exchange rate. A weaker rupee can lift the local price even if the underlying LME rate hasn't moved at all.
Zinc-based batteries are a real but comparatively small use of the metal next to galvanizing and die-casting alloys. They contribute to overall demand without being a major swing factor the way construction and automotive cycles are.
All three are LME-traded base metals that respond to similar macro forces — global industrial production, manufacturing activity, and broader economic sentiment about growth. They don't always move in lockstep, since each has its own specific demand and supply picture, but shared macro drivers often pull them in the same general direction.
