Spot prices, long views, and the signals worth following.
THE LONG VIEW
Gold & silver price comparison
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Latest in visible rangeUSD per troy ounce
Gold · left scale$----No observation
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Lines compare percentage changes. Each dollar scale uses that metal’s first visible price. Hover, tap, or use the chart’s arrow keys to inspect prices and dates. Nearby observations keep their own timestamps.
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OBSERVATIONS--Awaiting source
VISIBLE RETURN--First to last observation
Historical points keep their original frequency. Lines between them are visual connections, not additional observations. On narrow charts, K means thousand and M means million. Inspect an observation for the full price.
How are gold and silver prices set?London, Shanghai, New York and Chicago, explained.
FOLLOW THE TRADING DAY FROM ARIZONA
Market hours, in your time
See the same moment in Arizona and each market center. Compare local business hours, overnight breaks, weekends and holidays.
Atlantic is Nova Scotia's time zone, one hour ahead of Eastern. Newfoundland is another 30 minutes ahead of Atlantic. Regional choices follow the city shown in parentheses, including its daylight-saving rules.
ARIZONA NOW
LIVE TIME
Phoenix time, MST, UTC-7
At the same moment worldwide
Within weekday desk hoursHoliday during desk hoursOutside desk hours / weekend
These are regional business windows, not a live exchange status feed. Green does not guarantee a trade, and gray does not mean all spot trading has stopped.
ARIZONA TIMELINE
Overlapping weekday windows
Why the time difference changes
Arizona here means Phoenix, which stays on MST throughout the year. The Navajo Nation observes daylight saving time.
New York is 2 or 3 hours ahead of Phoenix. London is 7 or 8 hours ahead. Sydney is 17 or 18 hours ahead.
The difference depends on the date because these places change their clocks on different weekends. The times above adjust to your selected date.
Each row uses a Monday to Friday window from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM local time. London follows normal LBMA market-maker hours. The other five cities use comparison windows, not verified exchange schedules.
Weekends follow each city's local date. Sydney can reach Monday morning while Arizona is still on Sunday afternoon.
Gold and silver spot trades occur between counterparties around the world. One city finishing its business day does not close the global market.
A local holiday can reduce staffing or delay settlement, when payment and metal are transferred. It does not automatically close every dealer or the markets in other countries.
London bullion settlement dates account for UK and U.S. holidays. London quoting obligations can also finish earlier when New York is closed. That exception is not inferred from every U.S. bank holiday here.
On October 12, 2026, New York has a Federal Reserve holiday and Tokyo has Sports Day. Other centers have their own calendars.
These examples explore October and November 2026. Exploring a date does not change live alert monitoring. Alerts still require fresh provider quotes and an active open page.
Explore weekends and holidays across the yearSources and individual venue schedules
SIGNALS, WITH SOURCES
Beyond the price
GLOBAL OBSERVATORY
Your world, in layers.
Explore metals, infrastructure, public places and the land around them. Choose your layers. Zoom to a place. Open its source.
Reported holdings have different observation dates. These are published reserves, not a live inventory or real-time purchase feed.
METALS, PLACES & NETWORKSDrag to rotate · Scroll to zoom · Click a country to center
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About these groups and sources
Global ObservatoryMap detail
Geographic layers
Topographic relief off. Satellite view.
Mountains, valleys and shaded terrain
Terrain colors and shading show broad landforms. Generalized relief, without survey contours or point elevations.
Scroll or use + to go closer. Image detail depends on the source.
Satellite composite or optional topographic shaded relief. Geographic names, major roads, regional borders, rivers and lakes use Natural Earth. Arizona adds all 15 Census county borders and USGS county-seat locations. Layers and labels adapt to zoom. Boundaries follow Natural Earth’s de facto map convention. Anchors mark countries, not vaults.
STOCKS, SUPPLY & TRADE
United States
GOLD PRICE COMPARISON
Gold in the United States
Prices per fine troy ounce, separate from the date of the reserve holdings.
Compare an observed local quote
Enter a dealer or market quote in local currency per unit of fine gold. Use the disclosed fine-gold weight, with any non-gold material excluded.
Your entry stays in this open page and is kept separately for each country.
Reported holdings
21 countries
Selected countries. Turkey excluded from ranking because the available total includes commercial-bank gold. Not a complete world total.
HOW HOLDINGS HAVE CHANGED
Country reserve history
Year-by-year net holdings changes
December to December, only when both months were reported. Missing years are omitted.
Reported buying & selling
Country
Reported period
Net change
Report date
Evidence
A U.S. VIEW
Storage is not state ownership.
Federal Treasury gold is held at locations in several states. A vault's location does not make its contents that state's reserves.
Selected Treasury storage categories, August 31, 2026. Values exclude other small categories. Treasury data via FRED ↗
AND WHAT ABOUT SILVER?
Different metal. Different dataset.
Silver bullion is not part of the IMF monetary-reserve definition. There is no comparable verified country ranking of central-bank silver holdings here.
Mine production and metal still underground answer different questions. They should not be mixed with gold held in official reserves.
Compare annual silver and gold mine output by country, with a separate view of mineral reserves.
MINE LOCATIONS
Explore mines and minerals worldwide
Search gold, silver, copper, platinum, uranium and other mineral records across the United States and around the world. Includes historical producers and past producers, with prospects and other records available separately.
USGS historical inventory. Current operating status is unverified.
FROM DEPOSITS TO ANNUAL OUTPUT
Where the metals come from.
Compare silver and gold mine production, then explore reported mineral reserves.
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Mine production is metal produced during a year. Mineral reserves are a geological and economic estimate. Neither measures central-bank holdings or metal available for immediate sale.
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Country comparison
Bars compare the listed countries. Other countries and rounded world totals appear separately. Source estimates and reporting definitions limit precision.
Read the numbers in context.
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
Sources and definitions
FROM SCREEN PRICE TO PHYSICAL METAL
The dealer desk.
Compare a real product, its fine-metal weight, and the full price you pay.
Dealer inventory, quantity, payment method, shipping, and tax can change the final price. Live references and your saved quotes appear here. Each price is labeled by source and type.
Compare fractional coins, one-ounce products and larger bars by dividing each price by its metal weight.
Product and price date
Metal weight
Item / lot price
Equivalent ounce price
Difference from spot / oz
Difference from selected product / oz
Your saved quotes appear here, regardless of region. Product features, payment terms, fees and quote dates can differ. The premium does not isolate the cost of a smaller size alone.
PRODUCT PRICES & YOUR QUOTES
Arizona product prices
Compare matching products, payment methods and quantities. A spot reference is not a retail offer. Saved quotes stay on this device.
YOUR COMPARISON SHEET
Save a dealer quote
Dealer / product
Metal / fine oz
Ask / bid
Ask per fine oz / spot comparison
Premium at entry
Entered
Manual quotes are labeled with entry time and stored on this device. Reconfirm with the dealer before buying.
FROM BULLION TO SOMETHING YOU WEAR
The jewelry lens.
Compare the metal inside a piece with its retail price.
A ring, necklace, bracelet, or pair of earrings with the same fine-metal weight has the same metal value. Retail prices can differ because of design, workmanship, stones, branding, and selling costs. Metal value is not an appraisal or a guaranteed buyback offer.
WHAT IS THE METAL WORTH?
Jewelry value calculator
METAL VALUE VS. RETAIL
Waiting for a fresh spot quote.
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This slider is a scenario you choose, not a dealer quote. Actual offers depend on testing, refining, resale value, stones, and the buyer.
REAL PRODUCTS, CLEARLY DATED
Explore jewelry prices
Retail snapshots are separate from the connected spot feed. Reopen the retailer for the current price. Missing product weights are not estimated.
Your jewelry comparisons
Piece
Metal / purity
Fine metal
Metal value at entry
All-in retail
Above metal value
Saved with the source quote and entry time on this browser. These are calculations, not appraisals.
KNOW THE RULES
The state of precious metals.
Buying, selling, ownership, and reporting are separate questions.
Reviewed October 10, 2026
Nine states have source-linked research in this edition. Other states are explicitly unreviewed. Product, location, and transaction details matter; these cards do not calculate your tax.
EXPLORE BY STATE
ReviewedNot reviewed
Alphabetical state grid. Selected state opens its research card.
The federal layer
Sales tax and capital gains are different
CONTEXT MAKES THE CHART MORE USEFUL
Learn the long story.
How prices form, how markets connect, and the history behind the charts.
FROM BUY AND SELL ORDERS TO YOUR PRICE
How gold and silver prices are set
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Why the prices move together
How a dealer sets your price
Compare two prices fairly
What you see in this dashboard
TREND LAB
Seasonality, without a crystal ball.
Average returns between the last available observations in adjacent completed months. Explore the selected metal's history and its sample counts.
Historical averages describe a sample. They do not identify a guaranteed best month to buy.
THE PRICE YOU ACTUALLY PAY
Five terms worth knowing.
Spot
An indicative price for near-immediate settlement. The over-the-counter market has multiple providers, not one universal last trade.
Bid / ask
For a named dealer, bid is what it pays; ask is what it charges. Physical product quotes may be different.
Premium
The price above the fine metal's spot value, before or after fees depending on the comparison.
Troy ounce
31.1034768 grams. Bullion is quoted in troy ounces, not ordinary ounces.
Gold / silver ratio
Gold price divided by silver price, using the same currency, unit, and approximately the same quote time.
Turning points in U.S. gold history
Primary sources, not predictions
TIME OF DAY
The best hour to buy?
This edition collects actual observations while the page is open. A short local session is not enough to establish an intraday buying pattern. Spreads and dealer premiums can matter as much as small spot moves.
Use Live to inspect second-stamped observations, and the dealer desk to compare full physical-product costs. A reliable hour-of-day study needs a continuous, licensed tick archive with market-session and daylight-saving adjustments.
YOUR WATCH LIST
A signal at your level.
Price and ratio thresholds, saved on this browser.
Alerts run while this page is open and receiving fresh quotes. A suspended tab, closed browser, or sleeping phone cannot deliver reliable alerts. Off-device notifications and dots are not connected.
Active price alerts
Trigger history
PORTABLE BY DESIGN
Ready to grow from here.
Export your alert rules and manual quotes as JSON for a later dots integration. This exports your settings, not a provider's historical price database.
Settings stay on this device. They do not sync across devices.
SHOW YOUR WORK
Every number has a source.
Coverage, cadence, and limitations are part of the data.