Gold price in August 2005: daily prices, high, low and change
Gold closed August 2005 at $433.80 an ounce, up 0.91% on the month. The highest close was $446.10 on 16 Aug and the lowest $431.20 on 30 Aug. Every trading day below, with ranks and context computed from COMEX data.
Gold price chart, August 2005 (daily close and high-low range, US$ per ounce)
Gold line = daily settlement; bars = intraday high to low where available; dashed line = July 2005 close ($429.90).
Daily gold prices in August 2005 (23 trading days)
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 1 Aug | $430.00 | $432.30 | $429.10 | $431.90 | +$2.00 | +0.47% |
| Tue 2 Aug | $431.70 | $433.00 | $430.70 | $431.90 | $0.00 | 0.00% |
| Wed 3 Aug | $431.50 | $437.50 | $430.70 | $436.90 | +$5.00 | +1.16% |
| Thu 4 Aug | $436.50 | $439.00 | $436.10 | $437.90 | +$1.00 | +0.23% |
| Fri 5 Aug | $437.70 | $438.50 | $437.00 | $437.20 | −$0.70 | −0.16% |
| Mon 8 Aug | $437.00 | $437.00 | $434.00 | $434.70 | −$2.50 | −0.57% |
| Tue 9 Aug | $432.50 | $434.40 | $432.50 | $434.20 | −$0.50 | −0.12% |
| Wed 10 Aug | $434.90 | $437.00 | $434.90 | $436.50 | +$2.30 | +0.53% |
| Thu 11 Aug best day | $437.20 | $446.50 | $437.20 | $445.50 | +$9.00 | +2.06% |
| Fri 12 Aug | $445.80 | $449.50 | $444.50 | $445.90 | +$0.40 | +0.09% |
| Mon 15 Aug | $441.40 | $442.50 | $441.40 | $442.20 | −$3.70 | −0.83% |
| Tue 16 Aug | — | — | — | $446.10 | +$3.90 | +0.88% |
| Wed 17 Aug worst day | $442.50 | $443.30 | $439.50 | $439.90 | −$6.20 | −1.39% |
| Thu 18 Aug | $440.40 | $440.40 | $438.50 | $439.50 | −$0.40 | −0.09% |
| Fri 19 Aug | — | — | — | $437.20 | −$2.30 | −0.52% |
| Mon 22 Aug | $437.00 | $439.00 | $437.00 | $438.10 | +$0.90 | +0.21% |
| Tue 23 Aug | — | — | — | $439.40 | +$1.30 | +0.30% |
| Wed 24 Aug | $439.70 | $439.70 | $437.00 | $437.30 | −$2.10 | −0.48% |
| Thu 25 Aug | $438.50 | $438.50 | $438.00 | $438.40 | +$1.10 | +0.25% |
| Fri 26 Aug | — | — | — | $437.40 | −$1.00 | −0.23% |
| Mon 29 Aug | — | — | — | $437.00 | −$0.40 | −0.09% |
| Tue 30 Aug | — | — | — | $431.20 | −$5.80 | −1.33% |
| Wed 31 Aug | — | — | — | $433.80 | +$2.60 | +0.60% |
Close = COMEX gold futures settlement in US dollars per troy ounce; change is against the previous trading day's close. Open, high and low are shown as — on 7 days where the source has no usable intraday data (common before 2012, when the front-month contract traded thinly in the data feed).
Monthly open, high, low and close
| August 2005 | Open | High | Low | Close | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlements | $431.90 | $446.10 | $431.20 | $433.80 | +0.91% |
Settlements: first, highest, lowest and last daily close of the month (the basis used on the 2005 page and the monthly returns heatmap). Intraday highs and lows are not shown because the source lacks usable intraday data for part of this month.
Source: COMEX gold futures (GC=F) daily settlements and intraday bars via Yahoo Finance; US CPI (FRED CPIAUCSL) for the inflation adjustment; World Bank Pink Sheet for the monthly London average. Figures are final settlements; sources may occasionally revise historical data.
Gold in August 2005: summary
Gold edged up 0.91% in August 2005, settling the month at $433.80 an ounce against $429.90 at the end of July 2005. Settlement prices ranged from $431.20 on 30 August 2005 to $446.10 on 16 August 2005, a spread of $14.90 (3.5%), narrower than the 4.6% average of the previous 12 months. Gold closed higher on 11 of 23 trading days and lower on 11; the strongest session was 11 August 2005 (+2.06%) and the weakest 17 August 2005 (−1.39%).
How August 2005 compares
- Against other Augusts: at +0.91%, August 2005 ranks 16th of 26 Augusts since 2001 (best first).
- Against every month: it ranks 156th of 313 months since September 2000, better than 50% of them.
- Range: the gap between the highest and lowest close was $14.90, or 3.5% of the opening level, 0.8× the 4.6% average of the previous 12 months.
- Daily moves: the average day moved 0.55% (up or down), against 0.58% over the previous 12 months, so August 2005 was about as volatile as usual.
- Streaks: the longest run of higher closes was 3 days and the longest run of lower closes 3 days.
- Bigger picture: at the month-end close gold was −0.85% for 2005 to the end of August and +5.70% over 12 months (against the August 2004 close of $410.40).
- Average price: the mean of the 23 daily closes was $437.83; the World Bank's monthly average of the London (LBMA) price was $438.00.
Across the other 25 completed Augusts since 2001, gold averaged +2.57% and rose in 18 of them (72%). August 2005 lagged that average by 1.7 percentage points. The gold seasonality tool shows the same statistics for every calendar month, and the monthly returns heatmap lays out all Augusts side by side.
August 2005 in today's dollars
Adjusted for US consumer-price inflation, the $433.80 closing price equals about $744 in September 2026 dollars (CPI 196.1 in August 2005 against 336.3 in September 2026, FRED series CPIAUCSL), 71% more than the nominal figure. The gold price history hub restates every year's close on the same basis, and the all-time-high tracker lists every record close in nominal dollars.
Gold price by month in 2005
The gold price in 2005 page has the year's open, high, low and close, and the monthly archive on the gold price history hub explains how these month pages are built.
Frequently asked questions
What was the gold price in August 2005?
Gold closed August 2005 at $433.80 an ounce (COMEX settlement). It opened the month at $431.90 and averaged $437.83 across 23 trading days; the World Bank’s London average for the month was $438.00.
Did gold go up in August 2005?
Yes. Gold was up 0.91% in August 2005, from $429.90 at the end of July 2005 to $433.80. It closed higher on 11 of 23 days. Among Augusts since 2001 it ranks 16th of 26 (best first).
What was the highest gold price in August 2005?
The highest close was $446.10 on 16 August 2005.
What was the lowest gold price in August 2005?
The lowest close was $431.20 on 30 August 2005, $14.90 (3.5%) below the month’s highest close.
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