Gold Rate Today in Varanasi – 24K, 22K & 18K Price Per Gram
Updated 2026-09-11
Today's indicative gold rate in Varanasi: 24K ₹15219/gram
(₹1,52,190/10g), 22K ₹13941/gram, 18K ₹11414/gram —
down ₹135/g on yesterday,
and up 2.0% over 30 days. Rates are metal references before GST and making
charges; the full bill math, Varanasi's jewellery-market guide and date-wise history follow below.
Varanasi rates by purity
| Purity | Per gram | Per 10 grams |
|---|---|---|
| 24K (999) | ₹15219 | ₹1,52,190 |
| 22K (916) | ₹13941 | ₹1,39,410 |
| 18K (750) | ₹11414 | ₹1,14,140 |
30-day trend in Varanasi (24K ₹/g)
A rising month for Varanasi buyers: ₹302/g (2.0%) over 30 days, averaging ₹15152/g. Chart tracks the 24K reference; 22K moves in lockstep at 91.6%.
Gold in Varanasi: the local picture
Kashi trades gold as it trades everything — with the weight of continuity. The lanes of Chowk and Thatheri Bazaar have supplied ornament to the city's weddings, its temples and its unending pilgrim tide for as long as anyone's ledgers run, and eastern UP's serious buying still funnels through them. Rates carry the standard UP-east premium.
Demand braids three strands nowhere else combines at this strength: heartland wedding weight in classic 22K; temple-and-ritual buying — offerings, ceremonial pieces, the sacred economy's constant small-weight demand; and pilgrim purchases carrying Kashi's auspiciousness home in ornament form.
Kashi’s silk-and-gold pairing is its own institution: Banarasi wedding shopping unites brocade and ornament in one trousseau tradition, and the city’s markets evolved around the combination — jewellery lanes and sari houses in walking proximity, families completing both purchases in coordinated trips. Few cities integrate the two halves of Indian bridal splendour this naturally.
Popular Jewellery Markets in Varanasi
The old city's bazaars hold the trade as they hold everything else — densely:
Chowk & Thatheri Bazaar
The sarafa heart of Kashi — traditional counters and old houses in the lanes above the ghats, serving wedding, temple and pilgrim demand at eastern UP's reference charges. The lanes' antiquity does not suspend diligence: hallmarks and invoices, always.
Godowlia & Dashashwamedh approach
The pilgrim arteries — mixed counters serving the ghat-bound flow with ceremonial small-weight, coins and silver alongside the ritual trade.
Lahurabir & Sigra
The newer commercial centres — mid-market houses and brand showrooms with certified floors serving modern Varanasi's fixed-price buying.
Bhelupur & Lanka rows
The university side's convenience counters — family jewellers for the southern neighbourhoods' routine weight.
Gold Buying in Varanasi: The Eternal Ledger
The sacred economy gives Kashi's market its constant hum: ritual gifting, ceremony weight, temple offerings and pilgrim coin-buying flow daily through the old lanes, independent of any wedding calendar. Dealers here are as fluent in a single auspicious gram as in a trousseau — a range few markets practice.
Wedding buying runs eastern-UP classic: winter lagan concentration, sita haar and kada vocabulary in solid 22K, district families shopping the Chowk lanes for weight their towns can't stock, exchange counters folding generational accumulation forward.
Kashi craft for buyers: separate ritual purchases (small, immediate, sentiment-priced) from asset purchases (weighed, verified, invoiced) — the lanes serve both but the disciplines differ; quote two Chowk houses before trousseau commitments; and let the HUID check be your one modern ritual among the ancient ones — ten seconds, every piece.
The eternal city’s gift economy runs deeper than festivals: birth, mundan, thread ceremony, marriage, last rites — Kashi marks every passage with metal, and its counters price single-gram sentiment with the same practiced ease as trousseau weight. Buyers inherit a market fluent across the entire register of occasions, which is precisely what a city of arrivals and departures required.
The classical-music-and-scholarship city buys with unhurried deliberation: Kashi’s old families commission and purchase over conversations that span visits, and the Chowk’s houses conduct trade at that tempo — relationships over transactions, continuity over campaigns. Buyers who match the pace find the lanes remarkably generous with knowledge and fair with terms. In Kashi, even the gold is patient.
Date-wise gold rate in Varanasi (last 14 days)
| Date | 24K/g | 22K/g | 18K/g | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept | ₹15219 | ₹13941 | ₹11414 | −₹135 |
| 10 Sept | ₹15354 | ₹14064 | ₹11516 | −₹20 |
| 9 Sept | ₹15374 | ₹14083 | ₹11531 | +₹41 |
| 8 Sept | ₹15333 | ₹14045 | ₹11500 | −₹14 |
| 7 Sept | ₹15347 | ₹14058 | ₹11510 | +₹36 |
| 6 Sept | ₹15311 | ₹14025 | ₹11483 | −₹24 |
| 5 Sept | ₹15335 | ₹14047 | ₹11501 | +₹35 |
| 4 Sept | ₹15300 | ₹14015 | ₹11475 | +₹37 |
| 3 Sept | ₹15263 | ₹13981 | ₹11447 | −₹13 |
| 2 Sept | ₹15276 | ₹13993 | ₹11457 | +₹46 |
| 1 Sept | ₹15230 | ₹13951 | ₹11423 | −₹19 |
| 31 Aug | ₹15249 | ₹13968 | ₹11437 | +₹37 |
| 30 Aug | ₹15212 | ₹13934 | ₹11409 | +₹38 |
| 29 Aug | ₹15174 | ₹13899 | ₹11381 | — |
What a purchase bills in Varanasi today
| Metal: 10g × 22K rate | ₹1,39,410 |
| Making charges (12% typical) | ₹16,729 |
| GST @ 3% | ₹4,684 |
| Hallmarking (per piece) | ₹45 |
| Approx. bill total | ₹1,60,868 |
Making charges are the negotiable line — 8–25% by design complexity, softer in lean season. Traditional counters may quote separate wastage on handcrafted pieces; treat it as a negotiation opening. Coins and bars skip making charges (2–6% premia), which is why investment money belongs in coins and ornament money in negotiated jewellery.
Gold loans in Varanasi: what today's rate lets you borrow
Today's Varanasi rate also prices the other side of the counter: pledging instead of buying. At current levels, 22K jewellery supports a gold loan of up to about ₹11,850 per gram at the small-loan LTV tier (85%, for loans up to ₹2.5 lakh) — roughly ₹1,18,500 against 10 grams — with banks and NBFCs across Varanasi disbursing same-day against appraised ornaments, no income proof required.
The rate you pay varies far more than the rate you receive: gold-loan interest runs from PSU-bank floors near 9% to NBFC convenience schemes above 20%. Our gold loan rate today page tracks per-gram advances daily, the gold loan hub compares 18 lenders honestly, and the eligibility calculator converts your grams into a borrowing figure in seconds.
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