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Explain domestic buy/sell prices, bar versus ornament context, Thai gold-baht units, and benchmark-conversion caveats.
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2026-05-11 updated
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Gold and gems
Thailand Gold Price Data.
The canonical Thai retail price layer starts with the published Gold Traders Association 96.5% latest-price quote, then compares TFEX and global benchmarks carefully.
Published Thai retail reference
Thai gold today
THB per 1 baht-weight of 96.5% Thai gold
Gold bar sell: ฿70,500. Gold bar buy: ฿70,300. Reference price is national; local shop variation comes from spread, workmanship, receipt detail, and buyback terms.
฿70,500 bar sell
฿70,300 bar buy
15 May 2026, 17:09 Bangkok time
- 1 baht-weight = 15.244g
- 1 salung = 0.25 baht-weight
- Thai shops quote in THB per baht-weight
- Baht-weight is a gold weight unit, not ฿1 currency.
- Thai 96.5% domestic gold is not the same unit or purity as raw USD per troy ounce benchmarks.
- Ornament pricing can include workmanship or premium.
Bar versus ornament
Mirror the Thai market split instead of collapsing everything into one generic gold price.
| Type | What it means |
|---|---|
| Gold bar 96.5% | Cleaner national retail reference closest to the published GTA buy and sell spread. |
| Ornament base 96.5% | Published ornament-side base or tax-base context before shop-specific workmanship and buyback details. |
| Ornament sell 96.5% | Published ornament sell quote before local workmanship or premium is added. |
| Buy price / รับซื้อ | What a shop may pay when buying back gold under its own rules. |
| Sell price / ขายออก | What a shop charges when selling gold to a customer. |
Why the Thai quote moved
Published GTA USD/THB context shows USD/THB around 32.64, intraday quote change +50 THB, and previous-day change -1,450 THB. GTA spot reference is 4,558. This is pricing context, not investment advice.
Source summary: 8 joined sources support this decision.
Where to compare shops in Thailand
These are buying-context cards, not different official city prices. The national Gold Traders Association quote is shared across Thailand; local difference comes from spread, workmanship, receipts, and buyback convenience.
Bangkok / Yaowarat
strong
Bangkok / Yaowarat is the strongest gold-buying context right now if you still compare multiple shops against the national quote.
Use the national GTA quote first, then compare multiple Yaowarat shops before paying. Chiang Maigood
Chiang Mai is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Treat Chiang Mai as a convenience market and compare against the national GTA quote before agreeing to local ornament premiums. Hat Yaigood
Hat Yai is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Treat Hat Yai as a southern convenience market and keep the national quote visible while you compare local spread, receipt, and buyback terms. Phuketgood
Phuket is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Use Phuket only when convenience matters more than the widest shop comparison field, and keep the national quote visible while you compare. Pattaya / Chonburigood
Pattaya / Chonburi is workable for gold buying if you keep the national quote visible and check spread and receipts carefully.
Treat Pattaya / Chonburi as a convenience context and ask directly about spread, workmanship, and buyback terms before paying.Gold-shopping entity anchors
These are graph entities, not shop directories. They hold the live quote, buying-friction context, source trail, and related travel pages behind the public gold layer.
Market district
Yaowarat gold district
Bangkok's densest public gold-shopping anchor, where the national Thai quote meets the clearest comparison-shopping and buyback context.
Open the entity record. Market districtChiang Mai gold shopping
Regional gold-shopping anchor for Chiang Mai when convenience matters more than the deepest comparison-shopping field.
Open the entity record. Market districtHat Yai gold shopping
Southern regional gold-shopping anchor for Hat Yai when the trip already centers on the lower south and Bangkok-level comparison density is not the goal.
Open the entity record. Market districtPhuket gold shopping
Tourist-market gold-shopping anchor for Phuket, where convenience is real but the national quote still matters more than any local headline price.
Open the entity record. Market districtPattaya / Chonburi gold shopping
Convenience-first gold-shopping anchor for Pattaya / Chonburi when the trip is already on the east coast and Bangkok-level comparison density is not the goal.
Open the entity record.Before you book
Use the Gems page with the current trip checks
This gems page is not claiming a page-specific current score. Use it as the static guide, then check Today, route, and comparison pages before paying for anything hard to change.
Decision fields
The page should answer what the source can prove, what it cannot prove, and what must be verified before money changes hands.
| Field | Answer |
|---|---|
| Page type | gold price |
| Primary use | Explain domestic buy/sell prices, bar versus ornament context, Thai gold-baht units, and benchmark-conversion caveats. |
| Updated | 2026-05-11 |
| Core caveat | published GTA JSON does not equal open redistribution permission |
- price widgets
- buy/sell spread explanation
- gold futures comparison
- unit conversion
- published GTA JSON does not equal open redistribution permission
- shops may add workmanship or ornament premium
- never compare raw THB per baht-weight to USD per ounce without unit, purity, and FX conversion
- Gold Traders Association
- TFEX Gold Futures
- TFEX Gold Online Futures
- LBMA
- World Gold Council
- BOT
Canonical record checklist
Material, purity/species/variety, Thai gold-baht or carat unit, price type, timestamp, HS code, trade direction, country partner, lab report number, treatment/origin, company ID, shop/market coordinates, standard/regulation, source URL, confidence, and last verified date.
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