Gold Price in Pakistan (PKR)
What gold actually costs in Pakistan
Real dealer prices — not spot converted to PKR — with the premium over international spot included when live spot and FX inputs are available.
Pakistan dealer gold prices are tracked from 2 sources, priced in PKR, with the premium over international spot computed whenever live reference inputs are available.
Dealer quotes
| Source | Brand | Product | Sell | Buyback | Premium | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| forexpk | — | retail rate (10g) | 369,170 | — | Unavailable | |
| forexpk | — | retail rate (11.6638g) | 430,143 | — | Unavailable | |
| sarafa_pk | — | retail 18k (11.6638g) | 319,800 | — | Unavailable | |
| sarafa_pk | — | retail 21k (11.6638g) | 373,000 | — | Unavailable | |
| sarafa_pk | — | retail 22k (11.6638g) | 390,800 | — | Unavailable | |
| sarafa_pk | — | retail 24k (11.6638g) | 426,400 | — | Unavailable |
What is premium over spot?
Premium over spot is the percentage gap between a dealer's quoted sell price and the international spot price, converted to PKR at the live exchange rate. It captures dealer margin, import costs, refining, and local demand — the reason two dealers in the same city can quote different prices for the same purity of gold. A higher premium means you're paying more above the raw metal value. The API includes a nullable field (premium_over_spot_bps) on every quote: it is computed when live spot, FX, and stated-purity inputs are available, and is otherwise null rather than fabricated.
Gold in Pakistan
Pakistan prices gold predominantly in tola, a South Asian unit shared with India and Bangladesh, and household gold buying is deeply tied to wedding and dowry customs as well as inflation-hedging against a historically volatile rupee. Two independent dealer sources are tracked to cross-check the domestic tola rate.
Convention: Tola-based pricing (1 tola ≈ 11.6638g) alongside per-gram quotes, sourced from two independent dealer feeds.
Other countries
Frequently asked
How much gold is in one tola?
One tola is approximately 11.6638 grams — the standard South Asian gold-trading unit used across Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.Why does Pakistan track two gold price sources?
Two independent dealer feeds are cross-checked against each other to catch parsing drift or one-off quoting errors before they reach the API, since Pakistan has no single official benchmark equivalent to China's SGE.