Gold price today in Czechia

Hallmarks are compulsory

Under the Czech Hallmarking Act (Act 539/1992), gold goods made or imported for sale in Czechia must carry an official hallmark, and shops may not sell or offer gold goods without one unless the Act allows it. Very light items are exempt from the hallmark but must still show their fineness number. The marks are applied by the state Czech Assay Office (Puncovní úřad), which has nine workplaces: Turnov, Jablonec nad Nisou, Červený Kostelec, Prague, Hradec Králové, Ostrava, Plzeň, Tábor and Brno. The office says it does not buy or sell precious metals and does not test investment bars or coins.

Czech gold standards: 999, 986, 900, 750 and 585

The legal gold finenesses are 999, 986, 900, 750 and 585 thousandths. There is no 916 (22 karat) standard, so 22k jewellery is not one of the Czech legal finenesses. For old gold goods the lowest legal fineness is 580, and gold below 333 does not count as precious-metal goods at all. Today the bare international price works out to about 2,824 CZK per gram of 24k gold, 2,118 CZK for 18k (750) and 1,652 CZK for 14k (585).

VAT: 21% on jewellery, none on investment gold

Jewellery and other non-investment gold pay the standard 21% VAT. Investment gold has a special scheme in § 92 of the VAT Act: bars or plates of at least 995 thousandths with a serial number and the maker's, fineness and weight marks, and gold coins of at least 900 thousandths, minted after 1800, legal tender now or in the past, and usually sold for no more than 80% above their gold value. Their sale, intra-EU purchase and import are exempt.

The Czech National Bank is buying gold

The Czech National Bank (CNB) held 90 tonnes of gold at the end of October 2026, up from about 12 t at the end of 2022, and aims to reach 100 tonnes by 2028, which would be the most in its history. It had 63.3 t when the Czech Republic began in 1993, sold most of it in the late 1990s and reached its lowest level, 8 t, at the end of 2019. Before the Second World War the reserve was 96.6 t (1939).

What moves the koruna gold price

The koruna price of gold is the dollar price converted at the USD/CZK rate. The CNB declares its official exchange-rate fixing once each working day at about 2.30 p.m., and that rate stays valid over the following weekend or holiday. A weaker koruna raises the local gold price even when gold is flat in dollars. See what moves gold prices.

Rules for gold traders in Czechia

The Czech National Bank supervises the financial market. Since 9 August 2019 its measure on CFDs for retail clients has been in force: it does not ban CFDs but limits leverage, protects clients from losing more than their deposit and bans some related practices. Check a firm's CNB authorisation before you trade.

Our country guides explain how to check a firm before you open an account.

Trading hours in Central European Time

The international gold market trades almost around the clock, from Monday morning in Asia to Friday evening in New York. The busiest window, the London–New York overlap, falls today at about 14:00–18:00 CET/CEST. That is when US data such as payrolls and inflation is released and the price usually moves most. Czechia is on CET (UTC+1) in winter and CEST (UTC+2) in summer, so the overlap falls in the afternoon; it moves by an hour for a few weeks a year because Europe and the US change their clocks on different dates. The gold market hours tool shows every session in your own time zone.

How this CZK gold price is calculated

Three numbers decide everything on this page. First, the international gold price in US dollars per troy ounce: $4,042.7 at the last update. Second, the exchange rate: 1 USD = 21.724 CZK. Third, the weight: one troy ounce is 31.1035 grams, and one tola is 11.6638 grams.

1. Price per gram in USD = $4,042.7 ÷ 31.1035 = $129.98.
2. Price per gram in CZK = $129.98 × 21.724 = 2,824 CZK (24k, pure gold).
3. Price per 10 grams = 2,824 × 10 = 28,235 CZK.
4. For a lower purity, multiply by the fineness: 18k = 0.75, 14k = 0.585.

The gold price is the spot price of gold (XAUUSD) from a public real-time feed, refreshed every few seconds while the page is open; the 7-day table and the 30-session chart use COMEX gold futures closes, which usually sit a few dollars above spot. The exchange rate is a mid-market rate; the rate your bank or money changer gives you will be slightly different. If you want to do the maths yourself, our guide to converting the gold price per gram, tola and kilo walks through every step with worked examples.

What this price does not include

The figures above are the international spot price converted into local currency. They are the starting point for every retail price in Czechia, but they are not the price you will pay or receive at a shop. The shop price adds some or all of these on top:

• Import duty or customs charges, where gold or jewellery is imported.
• Sales tax or VAT, where the country charges one. Many countries tax jewellery but not investment bars; the sections above say what applies here.
• Dealer premium: the margin a bullion dealer or bank adds to the spot price for bars and coins, usually larger on small pieces.
• Making charges (labour) on jewellery, often a percentage of the gold value or a fixed amount per gram.
• Local supply and demand, which can push the physical price to a premium or a discount against the international price for weeks at a time.

When you sell, the buyer usually quotes below the spot-based number and deducts for purity testing, wear and sometimes stones. The gap between the buying and the selling price is the real cost of owning physical gold, and it varies a lot between shops, so it is worth asking several.

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