Gold price in Libya today, updated live with the world spot price and the official dinar exchange rate: gram prices for 21K, 24K and 18K in Libyan dinars and US dollars, plus the ounce, bullion and silver. Libya is a 21K country — stamped 875, it is the karat of Libyan jewellery and dowries — and the dinar prices here are converted at the official daily rate. One Libyan particularity matters for every comparison you will make locally: the large used and scrap-gold market (الذهب الكسر) prices its deals off a much higher parallel dollar rate, so local scrap quotes look nothing like official-rate tables — this page explains that openly, and our prices never use the parallel rate.
Gold price today in Libya — 21 carat (the most traded)
754.96 LYD / per gram
Gold ounce: 26,836.45 LYD • 24 carat per gram: 862.81 LYD • 18 carat per gram: 647.11 LYD ▲ +0.31% today
Last updated: Monday, October 19, 2026 - 10:30 am (Tripoli time)
Today's gold rate in Libya per gram
| Carat | Price per gram (LYD) | Price per gram (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Carat | 862.81 | 134.35 |
| 22 Carat | 790.91 | 123.16 |
| 21 Carat | 754.96 | 117.56 |
| 18 Carat | 647.11 | 100.77 |
| 14 Carat | 503.31 | 78.37 |
| Gold Ounce | 26,836.45 | 4,178.90 |
Gold price per tola (1 tola = 11.6638 grams)
| Carat | Price per tola (LYD) |
|---|---|
| 24 Carat | 10,063.67 |
| 22 Carat | 9,225.03 |
| 21 Carat | 8,805.71 |
Gold bullion bar prices today (24 carat)
| Bar weight | Price (LYD) |
|---|---|
| 1 grams | 862.81 |
| 5 grams | 4,314.06 |
| 10 grams | 8,628.12 |
| 20 grams | 17,256.24 |
| 50 grams | 43,140.60 |
| 100 grams | 86,281.20 |
| 250 grams | 215,703.01 |
| 500 grams | 431,406.02 |
| 1 Kilogram | 862,812.04 |
Silver price today in Libya
| Unit | Price (LYD) |
|---|---|
| Silver gram | 11.90 |
| Silver ounce | 370.18 |
| Silver kilogram | 11,901.68 |
Prices are indicative, based on the international spot gold price and updated automatically. Shop prices may differ slightly due to making charges and tax.
Gold in Libya — what to know
The heart of the trade is Souq Al-Mushir (سوق المشير), the historic gold market of old Tripoli, with further gold markets in Benghazi, Misrata and the other big cities. The key local facts for visitors: Libyan jewellery is 21K (875) by law and custom, following the Levant and Gulf karat tradition — not the 18K of neighbouring Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco — and shop prices for new jewellery sit above the raw spot-derived gram price, because workmanship and the shop’s margin are added on top. There is no official fixed workmanship rate in Libya, so we publish none; our Arabic checker page splits any shop quote into raw value versus additions so you can compare jewellers yourself. Libya also has a very large used and broken-gold market — kasr — where scrap and inherited pieces are weighed and traded daily; that market runs on the parallel exchange rate, which is unofficial, volatile and far above the official rate, so a scrap quote in a souk and the official-rate price on this page are answers on two different bases, not a sign that one of them is wrong. Compare like with like: official with official, parallel with parallel. Gold lira coins also circulate in Libya; because their weights and karats vary by issue, we price them by the open formula — the day’s gram price for the coin’s karat, times its actual weight — and any lira should be weighed and its hallmark checked before money changes hands.
The Arabic Libya section
Every Libya page also exists in Arabic with the full toolset: the flagship 21K page, 24K, 18K with the Italian-gold section, silver, bullion and the gold lira, the ounce, a gold calculator with unit converter and portfolio tracker, a zakat calculator, a price checker, and a sell calculator for the used and scrap market: أسعار الذهب في ليبيا بالعربية
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the gold price in Libya today?
Live Libya prices are in the table above: gram prices for 21K, 24K and 18K in Libyan dinars and US dollars, updated with the world spot price and the official dinar rate. When this page was built, 21K — Libya’s standard — was about 758.43 dinars per gram and 24K about 866.78 dinars at a spot price of $4,195.60 per ounce and an official rate of 6.4258 dinars per dollar. These are raw metal values before workmanship and shop margin.
What does ‘875 gold’ mean in Libya?
It is the hallmark number for 21K: 875 parts per thousand (87.5%) pure gold. Libya follows the Levant and Gulf tradition, so 21K/875 is the legal and popular standard for jewellery and dowry sets — purer than the 18K (750) standard of Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Europe, and the karat every Libyan jeweller quotes first. 24K is reserved for bars and ounces; 18K appears mostly in imported and Italian-made pieces.
Why do local scrap-gold quotes in Libya look so much higher than this page?
Because Libya effectively has two exchange rates. Our prices convert the world spot price at the official dinar rate, the same basis banks and global price sites use. The local used and scrap-gold market (kasr) prices its deals off the parallel, unofficial dollar rate, which is far higher — so the same gram of scrap can be quoted at a number well above its official-rate value without anyone making an error. The two numbers answer on different bases; judge any quote only against quotes on the same basis, and never treat a parallel-market scrap quote as the price of new jewellery.
How are the dinar prices calculated?
We take the world spot price in US dollars and convert it at the official daily market rate for the Libyan dinar — 6.4258 per dollar when this page was built. We deliberately never use the parallel rate: it is unofficial and volatile, while the official rate is the verifiable basis you can check against any bank or global source. That is also why Libyan gold prices in dinars can move even on a day when world gold is flat, if the official dinar rate itself moved.
Where do people buy gold in Libya?
In Souq Al-Mushir in old Tripoli, the historic gold market, and in jewellers across Benghazi, Misrata and the other big cities. Always buy with an official invoice showing weight, karat and price, and check the 875 hallmark on jewellery; for investment, buy sealed stamped bars from a recognised dealer so resale is easy. Used and scrap gold is widely traded too — but pieces sold as scrap are valued on their pure-gold content only.