Egypt Gold Price History — Our Own Daily Record and Analysis

Between 2026-06-29 and 2026-09-10 this site recorded 58 daily snapshots of the Egyptian retail gold market. Over that window the 21K gram moved from 5,665 to 6,307 EGP — a rise of 11.33%. It traded as high as 6,646 EGP on 2026-08-24 and as low as 5,665 EGP on 2026-06-29.

Where that move actually came from. The Egyptian gram is arithmetic — international ounce in USD, multiplied by USD/EGP, divided by 31.1035 — so a move in EGP has two possible causes, and they are worth separating. Dividing each day's 24K gram by that day's USD/EGP isolates the metal's own move: it came to +6.77%. USD/EGP over the same window moved +4.27%. Compounded, those two reproduce the 11.33% observed in EGP. So roughly 61% of the move came from global gold and 39% from the pound.

That distinction matters more than the headline number. A rise driven by the metal is a global move you share with every gold holder in the world. A rise driven by the currency is the pound losing purchasing power — the gold did not get more valuable, the money got less so. For anyone holding gold in Egypt as a hedge rather than a trade, the second is the case that was being hedged against.

Day-to-day behaviour. Of the 57 day-on-day comparisons in this window, 30 closed higher and 27 lower. The mean absolute daily move was 0.73%. The largest single-day move was +3.22% on 2026-08-23.

What this means for the spread. The buy-back figures in this record are our own reference, set a fixed amount below the recorded sell price rather than observed from dealers. Across this window that reference gap was 100.0 EGP per gram — about 1.59% of the current price. Set against a mean daily move of 0.73%, that means gold has to move in your favour for roughly 2.2 average days just to break even on a round trip, before any workmanship. It is the clearest argument in this data for treating gold as a long hold rather than a short trade, and for preferring bars and the Gold Pound — whose premiums are smaller — over worked jewellery, whose workmanship is never recovered at all.

The full recorded series

These figures are recorded daily from the Egyptian market and stored as-is; they are never rewritten retroactively. Days with no trading carry no snapshot.

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