Gold price in October 2005: daily prices, high, low and change
Gold closed October 2005 at $465.10 an ounce, down 0.83% on the month. The highest close was $477.10 on 11 Oct and the lowest $461.00 on 20 Oct. Every trading day below, with ranks and context computed from COMEX data.
Gold price chart, October 2005 (daily close and high-low range, US$ per ounce)
Gold line = daily settlement; bars = intraday high to low where available; dashed line = September 2005 close ($469.00).
Daily gold prices in October 2005 (21 trading days)
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 3 Oct | $467.80 | $468.00 | $464.20 | $466.10 | −$2.90 | −0.62% |
| Tue 4 Oct | $466.80 | $468.80 | $465.30 | $466.10 | $0.00 | 0.00% |
| Wed 5 Oct | — | — | — | $466.10 | $0.00 | 0.00% |
| Thu 6 Oct | — | — | — | $471.90 | +$5.80 | +1.24% |
| Fri 7 Oct | $473.00 | $475.50 | $470.00 | $474.70 | +$2.80 | +0.59% |
| Mon 10 Oct | $474.80 | $477.30 | $473.60 | $475.10 | +$0.40 | +0.08% |
| Tue 11 Oct | $475.20 | $477.50 | $475.20 | $477.10 | +$2.00 | +0.42% |
| Wed 12 Oct | $478.50 | $478.50 | $473.30 | $473.90 | −$3.20 | −0.67% |
| Thu 13 Oct | $472.00 | $472.00 | $468.30 | $471.10 | −$2.80 | −0.59% |
| Fri 14 Oct | $469.30 | $469.30 | $467.00 | $469.20 | −$1.90 | −0.40% |
| Mon 17 Oct | $473.00 | $475.00 | $473.00 | $474.10 | +$4.90 | +1.04% |
| Tue 18 Oct | $472.00 | $472.50 | $472.00 | $472.10 | −$2.00 | −0.42% |
| Wed 19 Oct worst day | — | — | — | $463.50 | −$8.60 | −1.82% |
| Thu 20 Oct | $465.00 | $465.00 | $460.50 | $461.00 | −$2.50 | −0.54% |
| Fri 21 Oct | — | — | — | $467.00 | +$6.00 | +1.30% |
| Mon 24 Oct | — | — | — | $465.00 | −$2.00 | −0.43% |
| Tue 25 Oct best day | $465.00 | $474.00 | $465.00 | $472.80 | +$7.80 | +1.68% |
| Wed 26 Oct | — | — | — | $471.20 | −$1.60 | −0.34% |
| Thu 27 Oct | $471.00 | $475.50 | $471.00 | $473.80 | +$2.60 | +0.55% |
| Fri 28 Oct | $473.50 | $473.50 | $471.60 | $473.00 | −$0.80 | −0.17% |
| Mon 31 Oct | — | — | — | $465.10 | −$7.90 | −1.67% |
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
| October 2005 | Open | High | Low | Close | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlements | $466.10 | $477.10 | $461.00 | $465.10 | −0.83% |
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 October 2005: summary
Gold edged lower 0.83% in October 2005, from $469.00 at the end of September 2005 to $465.10 an ounce. Settlement prices ranged from $461.00 on 20 October 2005 to $477.10 on 11 October 2005, a spread of $16.10 (3.4%), narrower than the 4.6% average of the previous 12 months. Gold closed higher on 8 of 21 trading days and lower on 11; the strongest session was 25 October 2005 (+1.68%) and the weakest 19 October 2005 (−1.82%).
How October 2005 compares
- Against other Octobers: at −0.83%, October 2005 ranks 17th of 26 Octobers since 2000 (best first).
- Against every month: it ranks 200th of 313 months since September 2000, better than 36% of them.
- Range: the gap between the highest and lowest close was $16.10, or 3.4% of the opening level, 0.8× the 4.6% average of the previous 12 months.
- Daily moves: the average day moved 0.69% (up or down), against 0.58% over the previous 12 months, so October 2005 was more volatile than usual.
- Streaks: the longest run of higher closes was 4 days and the longest run of lower closes 3 days.
- Bigger picture: at the month-end close gold was +6.31% for 2005 to the end of October and +8.54% over 12 months (against the October 2004 close of $428.50).
- Average price: the mean of the 21 daily closes was $470.00; the World Bank's monthly average of the London (LBMA) price was $470.00.
Across the other 25 completed Octobers since 2000, gold averaged +0.17% and rose in 13 of them (52%). October 2005 lagged that average by 1.0 percentage points. The gold seasonality tool shows the same statistics for every calendar month, and the monthly returns heatmap lays out all Octobers side by side.
October 2005 in today's dollars
Adjusted for US consumer-price inflation, the $465.10 closing price equals about $786 in September 2026 dollars (CPI 199.1 in October 2005 against 336.3 in September 2026, FRED series CPIAUCSL), 69% 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 October 2005?
Gold closed October 2005 at $465.10 an ounce (COMEX settlement). It opened the month at $466.10 and averaged $470.00 across 21 trading days; the World Bank’s London average for the month was $470.00.
Did gold go up in October 2005?
No. Gold was down 0.83% in October 2005, from $469.00 at the end of September 2005 to $465.10. It closed higher on 8 of 21 days. Among Octobers since 2000 it ranks 17th of 26 (best first).
What was the highest gold price in October 2005?
The highest close was $477.10 on 11 October 2005.
What was the lowest gold price in October 2005?
The lowest close was $461.00 on 20 October 2005, $16.10 (3.4%) below the month’s highest close.
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