Gold price in April 2011: daily prices, high, low and change
Gold closed April 2011 at $1,556.00 an ounce, up 8.14% on the month. The highest close was $1,556.00 on 29 Apr and the lowest $1,428.10 on 1 Apr. Every trading day below, with ranks and context computed from COMEX data.
Gold price chart, April 2011 (daily close and high-low range, US$ per ounce)
Gold line = daily settlement; bars = intraday high to low where available; dashed line = March 2011 close ($1,438.90); larger dots = new all-time-high closes.
Daily gold prices in April 2011 (20 trading days)
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 1 Apr | $1,433.40 | $1,436.50 | $1,413.00 | $1,428.10 | −$10.80 | −0.75% |
| Mon 4 Apr | $1,429.10 | $1,439.10 | $1,428.80 | $1,432.20 | +$4.10 | +0.29% |
| Tue 5 Apr ATH | $1,437.90 | $1,457.60 | $1,430.30 | $1,451.80 | +$19.60 | +1.37% |
| Wed 6 Apr ATH | $1,456.90 | $1,462.30 | $1,452.00 | $1,457.70 | +$5.90 | +0.41% |
| Thu 7 Apr ATH | $1,459.70 | $1,462.50 | $1,453.90 | $1,458.50 | +$0.80 | +0.05% |
| Fri 8 Apr ATH | $1,457.60 | $1,475.50 | $1,457.50 | $1,473.40 | +$14.90 | +1.02% |
| Mon 11 Apr | $1,476.00 | $1,476.00 | $1,459.70 | $1,467.40 | −$6.00 | −0.41% |
| Tue 12 Apr worst day | $1,461.80 | $1,467.20 | $1,444.40 | $1,452.90 | −$14.50 | −0.99% |
| Wed 13 Apr | $1,455.00 | $1,462.00 | $1,454.00 | $1,454.90 | +$2.00 | +0.14% |
| Thu 14 Apr | $1,456.80 | $1,476.00 | $1,452.70 | $1,471.70 | +$16.80 | +1.15% |
| Fri 15 Apr ATH | $1,477.60 | $1,487.50 | $1,473.20 | $1,485.30 | +$13.60 | +0.92% |
| Mon 18 Apr ATH | $1,486.30 | $1,497.30 | $1,477.50 | $1,492.30 | +$7.00 | +0.47% |
| Tue 19 Apr ATH | $1,493.30 | $1,499.50 | $1,489.00 | $1,494.50 | +$2.20 | +0.15% |
| Wed 20 Apr ATH | $1,494.00 | $1,505.30 | $1,494.00 | $1,498.30 | +$3.80 | +0.25% |
| Thu 21 Apr ATH | $1,503.70 | $1,508.30 | $1,501.70 | $1,503.20 | +$4.90 | +0.33% |
| Mon 25 Apr ATH | $1,513.30 | $1,518.00 | $1,502.80 | $1,508.60 | +$5.40 | +0.36% |
| Tue 26 Apr | $1,501.50 | $1,506.30 | $1,495.00 | $1,503.00 | −$5.60 | −0.37% |
| Wed 27 Apr ATH | — | — | — | $1,516.70 | +$13.70 | +0.91% |
| Thu 28 Apr ATH | $1,528.60 | $1,536.00 | $1,526.60 | $1,530.80 | +$14.10 | +0.93% |
| Fri 29 Apr ATH, best day | $1,538.70 | $1,568.70 | $1,537.30 | $1,556.00 | +$25.20 | +1.65% |
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 1 day 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
| April 2011 | Open | High | Low | Close | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Settlements | $1,428.10 | $1,556.00 | $1,428.10 | $1,556.00 | +8.14% |
| Intraday | $1,433.40 | $1,568.70 29 Apr | $1,413.00 1 Apr | $1,556.00 | — |
Settlements: first, highest, lowest and last daily close of the month (the basis used on the 2011 page and the monthly returns heatmap). Intraday: the highest and lowest traded prices in the daily bars.
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 April 2011: summary
It was the month gold first closed above $1,500 (on 21 April 2011). Gold soared 8.14% in April 2011, closing the month at $1,556.00 an ounce against $1,438.90 at the end of March 2011. Settlement prices ranged from $1,428.10 on 1 April 2011 to $1,556.00 on 29 April 2011, a spread of $127.90 (8.9%), wider than the 5.1% average of the previous 12 months. Gold closed higher on 16 of 20 trading days and lower on 4; the strongest session was 29 April 2011 (+1.65%) and the weakest 12 April 2011 (−0.99%).
Gold set 13 new all-time-high closes in April 2011, the highest at $1,556.00 on 29 April 2011. That was the biggest monthly gain since November 2009. It was gold's 3rd monthly gain in a row.
How April 2011 compares
- Against other Aprils: at +8.14%, April 2011 ranks 2nd of 26 Aprils since 2001 (best first).
- Against every month: it ranks 21st of 313 months since September 2000, better than 94% of them.
- Range: the gap between the highest and lowest close was $127.90, or 8.9% of the opening level, 1.8× the 5.1% average of the previous 12 months.
- Daily moves: the average day moved 0.65% (up or down), against 0.70% over the previous 12 months, so April 2011 was about as volatile as usual.
- Streaks: the longest run of higher closes was 8 days and the longest run of lower closes 2 days.
- Bigger picture: at the month-end close gold was +9.49% for 2011 to the end of April and +31.85% over 12 months (against the April 2010 close of $1,180.10).
- Average price: the mean of the 20 daily closes was $1,481.87; the World Bank's monthly average of the London (LBMA) price was $1,481.00.
Across the other 25 completed Aprils since 2001, gold averaged +1.01% and rose in 15 of them (60%). April 2011 beat that average by 7.1 percentage points. The gold seasonality tool shows the same statistics for every calendar month, and the monthly returns heatmap lays out all Aprils side by side.
April 2011 in today's dollars
Adjusted for US consumer-price inflation, the $1,556.00 closing price equals about $2,335 in September 2026 dollars (CPI 224.1 in April 2011 against 336.3 in September 2026, FRED series CPIAUCSL), 50% 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 2011
The gold price in 2011 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 April 2011?
Gold closed April 2011 at $1,556.00 an ounce (COMEX settlement). It opened the month at $1,428.10 and averaged $1,481.87 across 20 trading days; the World Bank’s London average for the month was $1,481.00.
Did gold go up in April 2011?
Yes. Gold was up 8.14% in April 2011, from $1,438.90 at the end of March 2011 to $1,556.00. It closed higher on 16 of 20 days. Among Aprils since 2001 it ranks 2nd of 26 (best first).
What was the highest gold price in April 2011?
The highest close was $1,556.00 on 29 April 2011. The highest intraday price in the daily bars was $1,568.70 on 29 April 2011. It was a new all-time-high close.
What was the lowest gold price in April 2011?
The lowest close was $1,428.10 on 1 April 2011, $127.90 (8.9%) below the month’s highest close. The lowest intraday price was $1,413.00 on 1 April 2011.
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