Gold Price Per Gram in Canada
Canadian scrap offers are made per gram in Canadian dollars — two details that both matter, because the per-gram numbers Canadians usually find first are American. Today's C$ figure for every karat, from one auditable source.
As of 15 October 2026, the price of pure gold in Canada is C$190.06 per gram — C$5,912 per troy ounce.
Converted at US$1 = C$1.4219 (ECB reference rates, 2026-10-14). Spot itself is recorded from a live market feed every fifteen minutes.
| Stamp | Pure gold | Price per gram |
|---|---|---|
| 24K · 999 | 99.9% | C$189.87 |
| 22K · 916 | 91.6% | C$174.23 |
| 18K · 750 | 75.0% | C$142.54 |
| 14K · 585 | 58.5% | C$110.86 |
| 10K · 417 | 41.7% | C$79.20 |
Converted at US$1 = C$1.4219 (ECB reference rates, 2026-10-14). Spot itself is recorded from a live market feed every fifteen minutes.
C$ per gram, not US$ per anything
The classic Canadian selling mistake happens before any shop is entered: pricing a jewellery box from a US website. An American per-gram figure understates the Canadian-dollar value by the full exchange gap, so an offer that would be fair against the C$ number looks generous against the USD one — and buyers know which number optimistic sellers carry. Anchor on the table above: world spot, converted at the dated rate, scaled by karat. Then every offer becomes a simple percentage.
The 10K surprise
Canadian mall and chain-store jewellery leans 10K just as its American counterpart does, and 10K is where per-gram arithmetic surprises sellers most: at 41.7% purity, a gram of 10K carries well under half the pure rate in the capsule. A drawer of 10K priced mentally at “the gold price” disappoints at the counter through no dishonesty at all — the karat, not the buyer, set the number. Our 10K explainer walks the honest arithmetic.
From this table to a fair offer
Weigh by karat group, multiply by the matching row, and the result is melt value — the neutral midpoint. A Canadian buyer's offer lands somewhere below it; the honest ones state their percentage without flinching. The calculator does the multiplication live, and the selling guide covers the rest of the counter.
Questions people ask in Canada
- How much is one gram of gold worth in Canada today?
- The pure-gold gram is in the capsule above; each jewellery karat has its own row in the table. All figures are Canadian dollars at the dated conversion shown on the page.
- Why was my offer so far below the per-gram price here?
- Two legitimate layers: karat purity (a 10K gram holds 41.7% of the pure rate) and the buyer's margin (refining, testing, profit). If the offer is under about two-thirds of your piece's melt value, a competing quote is the correct response.
- Should I use the ounce price or the gram price?
- They are the same value in different clothes — 31.1035 grams to the troy ounce. Use ounces for bullion conversation, grams for jewellery and scrap, and never let a quote switch units mid-negotiation without redoing the division.