Gold Rate in Pakistan Today: Rs425,636 Per Tola on Friday, 30 October

By TaazaPulse News Desk · Published: 30 October 2026 · TaazaPulse News Desk

Gold prices in Pakistan opened on Friday, 30 October 2026, at Rs425,636 per tola for 24-karat gold, unchanged from Thursday's level, according to the All Pakistan Sarafa Gems and Jewellers Association rate carried by market reporting. The Friday opening figure is the association's benchmark rate — the reference price that sarafa markets across the country quote before jewellers add their own making charges. For households, that single number is the starting point of every purchase decision, from a wedding set to a single gold coin bought as a store of value.

The unchanged opening is itself the story of the week. After a sharp move on Wednesday, when the association rate rose by Rs3,500 per tola to reach Rs425,636, the market spent Thursday standing still, and Friday's opening confirms that pause. The Associated Press of Pakistan reported on Thursday that gold prices remained unchanged in the domestic market, with 24-karat gold at Rs425,636 per tola, 10 grams of 24-karat gold at Rs364,914, and 10 grams of 22-karat gold at Rs334,516. Friday's opening at the same per-tola figure, reported by Pakistan Observer's market coverage, means the benchmark has now held at one level for three consecutive sessions: Wednesday's rise, Thursday's flat close, and Friday's flat opening.

Those three numbers — per tola, per 10 grams, per gram — are the same price expressed in different weights, and it is worth showing the arithmetic, because jewellers quote all three and buyers are often unsure whether they match. One tola equals 11.6638 grams. The association's 10-gram figure of Rs364,914 works out to Rs36,491 per gram, and multiplying that gram rate by a tola gives Rs425,636, exactly the headline figure. For 22-karat gold, the association's 10-gram figure of Rs334,516 works out to about Rs33,452 per gram, and to roughly Rs390,173 per tola when converted on the same basis. These derived figures are arithmetic from the association's own published rates, not separate market quotes, and they are labelled as such so that no reader mistakes a conversion for a new announcement.

The week's path to this level is short and easy to follow. On Tuesday, 27 October, the association rate fell by Rs1,300 per tola to Rs422,136, tracking a decline in international bullion. On Wednesday, 28 October, it rose by Rs3,500 per tola to Rs425,636, with 10 grams rising by Rs3,001 to Rs364,914 and 10 grams of 22-karat gold rising by Rs2,751 to Rs334,516. On Thursday the rate was unchanged, and on Friday it opened unchanged again. The net result is a market that gave back some ground, recovered it in a single session, and has since traded sideways. That round trip matters for buyers because it shows how quickly a "today's rate" can move: a purchase delayed by two days this week would have cost Rs3,500 per tola more, while a purchase delayed by one day would have cost exactly the same.

Internationally, the association reported gold at $4,031 per ounce on Thursday, also unchanged on the day. Friday morning's live spot trackers put the international price a little lower, in the neighbourhood of $3,990 to $4,002 per ounce, which is one reason some websites show lower Pakistan figures on Friday than the association's opening rate. The distinction matters and is the source of most of the confusion readers report. The association announces one daily benchmark rate, built from the international price and the rupee-dollar rate at the time of its announcement. Live spot converters, by contrast, recalculate continuously from the moving international price and the current exchange rate. Both are honest numbers; they are simply measured at different times and by different methods. A buyer who checks a spot converter at noon and a sarafa shop at noon may therefore see two different figures, and neither is necessarily wrong — but the price a shop will actually charge is anchored to the association benchmark, plus making charges.

That brings us to the most practical part of this story: what the headline rate does and does not include. The Rs425,636 figure is the price of the metal itself, per tola, before making charges. It does not include the labour cost of turning bullion into jewellery, which varies by design and by shop, nor does it include any stone setting or finishing. Two shops quoting the same association rate can therefore give different final bills for the same weight, because their making charges differ. The honest way to compare shops is to ask for the weight, the purity, the per-gram metal rate applied, and the making charge as separate lines, rather than comparing only the final total. A shop that refuses to break the bill down is a shop to walk away from.

Purity is the second check, and it is where the karat figures in this article come from. Twenty-four karat is fine gold, effectively pure. Twenty-two karat, the standard for most jewellery in Pakistan, is 91.6 percent gold, with the balance made up of alloy metals that give the piece its strength. Twenty-one karat and 18 karat pieces contain progressively less gold and cost proportionally less per tola, which is why a 21-karat set can look identical to a 22-karat set while carrying a materially lower price. The association's 22-karat 10-gram figure exists precisely so that buyers of ordinary jewellery have a benchmark of their own, rather than having to convert from the 24-karat rate and guess at the alloy discount. When a shop quotes a 22-karat price far from the association's converted figure, that gap is the first thing to question.

Silver, which many readers ask about alongside gold, was reported at Rs5,854 per tola in the association's Thursday opening rates. No separate Friday silver figure has been confirmed in the coverage available for this article, so this article does not claim one. Readers who need Friday's silver rate should check the association's updated release or their local sarafa market before dealing, rather than treating Thursday's figure as Friday's. The same discipline applies to every rate in this article: a figure is only as current as its announcement, and a rates article that carries yesterday's number forward as today's without saying so is misleading its readers, even if the number later turns out to be right.

The rupee-dollar rate is the quiet partner in every gold price, and it is worth stating plainly. Gold is priced internationally in dollars, so a weaker rupee pushes the rupee price of gold up even when the dollar price of gold does not move, and a stronger rupee pulls it down. The interbank dollar rate reported for 29 October stood at Rs276.77, and that conversion is part of why the association's rupee rate can move on a day when the international gold price is flat, or stay flat on a day when the international price moves. Buyers who follow only the dollar price of gold, or only the rupee price, are following half the equation. The association's daily rate is, in effect, the market's combined verdict on both.

For households, the practical question is rarely whether gold will rise or fall tomorrow — nobody can answer that honestly — but how to buy well at whatever today's rate is. The checklist is short. First, confirm the day's association rate from a published source before leaving home, and note whether it is the opening rate or an updated rate. Second, buy from a shop that states weight, purity and making charges separately on the bill. Third, keep the bill: it is the document that determines the buyback value if the piece is ever sold, and reputable shops buy back against their own bills at the prevailing rate less a stated deduction. Fourth, treat "today only" pressure with scepticism; the association rate is public, the metal does not spoil, and a genuine shop has no reason to rush a buyer who wants to verify a weight. Fifth, for investment rather than jewellery, compare the total cost of coins or bars against jewellery of the same weight, because bars and coins carry far lower making charges and therefore track the metal price more closely.

There is also a seasonal note that readers will recognise from their own families. Autumn is the period when many households buy gold for weddings and for year-end occasions, and demand from that buying can firm up retail premiums even when the benchmark rate is unchanged. That does not change the association rate, but it can change what a shop charges above it, which is another reason to separate the metal price from the making charge on the bill. A higher final price in a busy season is not necessarily a higher gold price; it may be a higher charge for labour, design or simply for a shop's time. Asking which of those it is will usually produce a straighter answer.

What should readers watch next? Four things. The association's next daily announcement, which will show whether Friday's flat opening holds or gives way to a new move. The international spot price, which spent Friday morning near $4,000 per ounce and remains the largest single input into the rupee rate. The rupee-dollar rate, which can move the local price even on a quiet day for bullion. And the gap between the association benchmark and the live spot converters, which narrows when markets are calm and widens when the international price moves sharply during the day. TaazaPulse's rates desk will carry the next confirmed association figure when it is announced, and will say plainly when a figure is carried over from a previous day rather than newly announced.

A final word on how to read this article. Every figure in it is either the association's published rate, a figure reported by APP or market coverage of that rate, or arithmetic derived transparently from those figures and labelled as derived. Where coverage disagrees — as the live spot converters do with the association's opening rate — this article says so and explains why, rather than picking the more dramatic number. Where a figure is not confirmed for Friday, such as silver, this article says that too. Gold is one of the few purchases where the price is published daily, in public, by a named association; there is no reason for a rates article to guess, and every reason for it to show its working. Friday's working is simple: 24-karat gold opened at Rs425,636 per tola, 10 grams at Rs364,914, and 22-karat gold at Rs334,516 per 10 grams — unchanged, confirmed, and worth checking against the bill before any money changes hands.