Gold Price in Yemen Today

Gold price in Yemen today, updated live with the world spot price — and quoted, openly, at the Sanaa rate of 535 riyals per dollar: gram prices for 21K, 24K and 18K in Yemeni riyals and US dollars, plus the ounce, bullion and silver. Yemen is a 21K country — stamped 875, it is the karat of Yemeni jewellery and dowries — and it is the only country on this site with two riyals: since the currency split, old banknotes circulating in Sanaa and the north trade near 535 per dollar, while new notes in Aden and the south trade above 1,550 and move fast. Every price here uses the Sanaa rate, because that is the market most Yemeni gold boards are built on; approximate Aden conversions are given in the text below, labelled and dated, never mixed into our tables.

Gold in Yemen — what to know

The heart of the trade is the gold market of Sanaa’s Old City, with further markets in Aden, Taiz, Hudaydah and Mukalla. The key local facts for visitors and the diaspora: Yemeni jewellery is 21K (875) by custom, following the Gulf and Levantine karat tradition, and the market effectively runs on two exchange rates at once — the Sanaa (old-note) rate near 535 per dollar, stable for years, and the Aden (new-note) rate, around 1,570 per dollar in October 2026, which moves quickly with central-bank and political news. At that approximate Aden rate, a gram of 21K converts to about 185,305 riyals and a gram of 24K to about 211,777 riyals — conversions of the same world price, not different gold. Always ask which riyal a quote uses before comparing it with any table, including ours. A warning that matters in Yemen more than anywhere: many international price sites and currency converters still carry a legacy reference rate of about 236 riyals per dollar — Yemen’s official rate from before the split — and therefore print a gram price near 31,600 riyals at which no gold and no dollars actually trade in any Yemeni market today; our Sanaa-based prices are roughly 2.3 times those figures because they are built on a riyal that really trades. 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 Yemen, so we publish none, and our Arabic checker page splits any shop quote into raw value versus additions so you can compare jewellers yourself. Gold sovereigns also circulate — Yemenis call the gold pound “al-habba” — and because surviving coins vary by issue and condition, we price them by the open formula: the day’s gram price for 22K, times the coin’s actual weighed weight — any coin should be weighed and its hallmark checked before money changes hands.

The Arabic Yemen section

Every Yemen page also exists in Arabic with the full toolset: the flagship 21K page, 24K, 18K, silver, bullion and the gold pound (al-habba), the ounce, a gold calculator with unit converter and portfolio tracker, a zakat calculator, a price checker, and a sell calculator for the used market: أسعار الذهب في اليمن بالعربية

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the gold price in Yemen today?

Live Yemen prices are in the table above: gram prices for 21K, 24K and 18K in riyals and dollars, updated with the world spot price and quoted at the Sanaa rate of 535 riyals per dollar, which we state openly on every page. When this page was built, 21K — Yemen’s standard — was about 63,145 riyals per gram and 24K about 72,166 riyals at a spot price of $4,195.60 per ounce. These are raw metal values before workmanship and shop margin.

Why are there two gold prices in Yemen?

Because there are effectively two riyals. Since Yemen’s currency and central bank split, the old banknotes circulating in Sanaa and the north have held near 535 per dollar for years, while the new banknotes in Aden and the south trade above 1,550 per dollar and move fast. Gold is one world price in dollars; its riyal price is that world price multiplied by your zone’s rate. We publish the Sanaa-based price as our standard and give labelled, dated Aden conversions in the text — we never invent per-city prices, because prices follow the two riyal zones, not city names.

What is the gold price in Aden?

Approximately 185,305 riyals per gram of 21K and 211,777 riyals per gram of 24K, converted at an Aden rate of about 1,570 riyals per dollar in October 2026. Treat these as dated approximations, not live table prices: Aden’s rate moves quickly, and even Aden’s own shop boards are not perfectly consistent with each other — one major board’s 21K print implies a rate near 1,540. Your jeweller’s board on the day is the final word there.

Why do some websites show only about 31,600 riyals per gram for Yemen?

Because they still carry a legacy reference rate of about 236 riyals per dollar — Yemen’s official rate from before the currency split — and multiply the world gram price by it. At that rate, no gold and no dollars trade in any Yemeni market today: Sanaa trades near 535 and Aden above 1,550. Any gram price near 31,600 riyals is an artefact of a dead exchange rate, and it cannot buy a single gram in Sanaa, Aden, Taiz or anywhere else in Yemen.

Where do people buy gold in Yemen?

In the gold market of Sanaa’s Old City, and in jewellers across Aden, Taiz, Hudaydah and Mukalla. Always buy with an official invoice showing weight, karat and price, check the 875 hallmark on jewellery, and ask which riyal the price is quoted in — old-note Sanaa or new-note Aden. For investment, buy sealed stamped bars or weighed, hallmark-checked gold pounds (al-habba) from a recognised dealer so resale is easy. Used gold is widely traded too — pieces sold for melting are valued on their pure-gold content only.