Gold rate today in Uttar Pradesh
The 24 carat gold rate in Uttar Pradesh is ₹ 133,885 per 10 grams and ₹ 13,389 per gram at the state benchmark. 916 (22 carat), the grade most jewellery is made from, is ₹ 122,728 per 10 grams.
In pavan terms — the unit most of southern India actually buys in — one pavan of 916 gold is ₹ 98,182 and one pavan of 24 carat is ₹ 107,108. A pavan is 8 grams.
The Uttar Pradesh gold market
Supply runs primarily through Delhi. The NCR belt — Noida, Ghaziabad — prices almost with the capital, while Lucknow and Kanpur sit mid-range and Varanasi, Prayagraj and Gorakhpur carry the widest premium in the state.
The wedding season dominates, with Dhanteras and Akshaya Tritiya producing the sharpest single-day demand. Temple towns add steady year-round purchases of ceremonial and gifting gold.
The spread across Uttar Pradesh
Right now the gap between the cheapest and dearest market in Uttar Pradesh is ₹ 147 per 10 grams — Noida at the bottom, Gorakhpur at the top. On a typical 50 gram purchase that is a difference of about ₹ 736, which is real money but rarely worth travelling for once fuel and time are counted.
The metal itself costs the same everywhere on earth at any given second. What varies within Uttar Pradesh is freight from the point of import, how many dealers compete in each town, the cost of holding stock, and when local wedding and festival demand peaks — which is not simultaneous across a state.
Buying gold in Uttar Pradesh
Hallmarking compliance varies more between organised showrooms and neighbourhood jewellers here than in the metros. Insist on the BIS hallmark and a dated invoice showing weight and purity — it materially changes what you recover at resale.
Beyond that, the same four questions apply anywhere: the metal rate for the exact karat, the making charge, the wastage percentage, and the tax — each as its own number. A single all-in price cannot be compared against anything.
The background, in one place
- How gold rates are decided — spot, exchange rate, import parity and premium, with live numbers at each step.
- 22K vs 24K — every lower grade is a fixed fraction of the 24 carat price, and the guide shows the arithmetic.
- What 916 means and what a pavan is — the two terms this market trades in.
- Making charges and wastage — where two quotes on the same rate actually diverge.
- Verifying a hallmark — what the stamps guarantee, and what they do not.