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
vs yesterday
−₹135
30-day high
₹15374
30-day low
₹14900

30-day trend in Varanasi (24K ₹/g)

30 days ago: ₹14917 Today: ₹15219

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%.

Varanasi vs other metros (24K ₹/g)

City 24K/g 22K/g
Delhi ₹15209 ₹13931
Mumbai ₹15194 ₹13918
Chennai ₹15284 ₹14000
Bangalore ₹15244 ₹13964
Hyderabad ₹15244 ₹13964
Kolkata ₹15199 ₹13922

City spreads stay within ~1% — driven by transport, dealer premia and demand intensity, not different gold.

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.

Gold rate in Varanasi — FAQs

What is today's gold rate in Varanasi?
On 2026-09-11's indicative reference: 24K ₹15219/gram (₹1,52,190/10g), 22K ₹13941/gram and 18K ₹11414/gram in Varanasi. These are metal rates — a jewellery bill adds making charges and 3% GST, broken down in the cost section on this page. Varanasi counters quote within a few rupees either side of these references.
What is the 22K gold rate per gram in Varanasi today?
About ₹13941/gram today (₹1,39,410 per 10 grams). 22K is 91.6% fine gold — the standard for Indian jewellery — so its rate always tracks 24K × 0.916. This is the number that matters for wedding and ornament budgets in Varanasi, since almost all jewellery here is 22K or 18K, not 24K.
Why does the gold price change every day?
Gold is priced globally and re-priced continuously: international bullion moves on US rates, inflation and geopolitics; the rupee translates those moves into Indian prices; import duty and taxes complete the landed cost. Varanasi's quotes follow the same national reference daily with a small local premium. Over the last 30 days the rate here has risen about ₹302/g (2.0%).
Is the gold rate in Varanasi inclusive of GST?
No — quoted gold rates (this page and jeweller boards alike) are pre-tax metal rates. Your bill adds 3% GST on metal plus making charges, and making charges themselves (8–25% by design) before that. The worked example on this page shows the full stack: at today's rate, a 10-gram 22K purchase bills roughly ₹1,60,868 all-in at a mid-range making charge.
What is the gold rate in Varanasi today per 10 grams?
Ten times the per-gram figures above, at the eastern-UP premium, tracking the national price daily. Chowk's counters quote near-uniformly on rate; their honest variance is charges and exchange terms, negotiated as the lanes have always negotiated.
Where should I buy wedding gold in Varanasi?
The Chowk-Thatheri sarafa for weight, tradition and eastern UP's reference charges; Sigra-Lahurabir's showrooms for certified sets. District buying still routes through the old lanes for depth the region's towns lack.
What is ritual gold buying in Kashi?
The sacred economy's daily trade: coins and small ornament for ceremonies, temple offerings, auspicious gifting tied to the city's unending ritual calendar. Dealers price it fluently in single grams. Buy sentiment-weight freely; buy asset-weight with full verification — the lanes respect both modes.
Do pilgrims buy gold in Varanasi?
Continuously — carrying Kashi's auspiciousness home as coins or small pieces is old custom, and the ghat-approach counters serve it. Pilgrim buyers should apply resident rules: hallmarked pieces, proper invoices, rates checked against this page — sanctity and diligence coexist here comfortably.
How do lagan seasons move the Kashi market?
They crest over the constant ritual base: winter muhurats crowd the lanes, firm charges and queue the benches, eastern UP's districts adding their weight. The practiced pattern is booking sets before the season and letting the ritual trade's daily rhythm carry everything else.
What should pilgrims know about buying gold in Varanasi?
Two markets coexist: the ghat-approach counters serving ritual small-weight (fine for sentiment purchases with basic checks), and the Chowk sarafa where residents buy serious weight (full diligence: HUID, invoices, rate awareness). Pilgrims buying meaningful gold should shop the second as locals do — the sanctity of the purchase is not diminished by proper paperwork.
How do I combine saree and jewellery shopping in Varanasi?
The city designed itself for it: Banarasi weaving houses and the Chowk’s gold lanes sit in walking orbit, and trousseau families have run the combined circuit for generations — brocade first (colours set the metal’s tone), ornament after, both trades accustomed to coordinated decisions. Allow a full day, apply each trade’s verification rituals, and Kashi assembles a trousseau like nowhere else.
Are making charges different in Kashi’s lanes?
Competitive for the east: the Chowk’s density keeps standard-work charges in the 9–15% range, with the ritual small-weight trade running on modest flat margins and craft pieces priced by work. The eternal city negotiates gently but genuinely — unhurried conversation, in the local manner, moves terms more than aggressive bargaining ever does here.

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