Shanghai Gold Exchange Prices: Gold Benchmark & SGE Quotes

Get official Shanghai Gold Exchange (上海黄金交易所, SGE) prices as clean JSON, straight from sge.com.cn. China is the world's largest gold consumer, and the SGE is where its physical gold is priced. No login, no Chinese needed.

• Shanghai Gold Benchmark Price (上海金基准价): the yuan gold fixing, AM and PM, every trading day since April 2016, in CNY per gram
• Shanghai Silver Benchmark Price (上海银基准价): AM and PM, every trading day since October 2019, in CNY per kg
• Daily quotes for every SGE contract: Au99.99, Au99.95, Au100g, Au(T+D), mAu(T+D), iAu99.99 (international board), Ag(T+D), Ag99.99, Pt99.95 and more, with open, high, low, close, change, weighted average price, volume, turnover, open interest and the deferred-delivery direction
• Latest day or any date range, with optional contract filters

Use cases

• Gold traders and analysts: track the Shanghai premium by comparing the Shanghai Gold benchmark with London or COMEX prices.
• Jewellery, refining and manufacturing: CNY gold and silver costs for pricing and hedging.
• Research and dashboards: Chinese gold demand signals from volumes, open interest and the Au(T+D) delivery direction.
• Scheduled feeds: run daily after 15:30 China time with Only new days on and get just the new fixings and quotes.

Example input

Latest day for everything:

{}

Au(T+D) and Au99.99 quotes plus the gold benchmark since 2025:

{
  "series": ["goldBenchmark", "dailyQuotes"],
  "contracts": ["Au(T+D)", "Au99.99"],
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01"
}

Output

A benchmark fixing:

{
  "type": "benchmark",
  "metal": "gold",
  "benchmark": "Shanghai Gold Benchmark Price (上海金基准价)",
  "date": "2026-10-09",
  "am": 900.79,
  "pm": 905.68,
  "unit": "CNY/gram"
}

A daily quote:

{
  "type": "dailyQuote",
  "date": "2026-10-09",
  "contract": "Au(T+D)",
  "open": 891.6,
  "high": 908.44,
  "low": 887.17,
  "close": 904.2,
  "change": 12.21,
  "changePct": 1.37,
  "weightedAverage": 897.95,
  "volumeKg": 31268,
  "turnoverCny": 28077211480,
  "openInterestLots": 247252,
  "deliveryDirectionCn": "多支付给空",
  "deliveryDirection": "longs pay shorts",
  "deliveryLots": 14934,
  "unit": "CNY/gram"
}

• Gold and platinum are quoted in CNY per gram, silver in CNY per kg; volumeKg is in kilograms and counted on both sides, as the exchange publishes it.
• A trading day includes the previous evening's night session (20:00 to 02:30) and the day session (9:00 to 15:30).
• deliveryDirection shows who pays the deferred-delivery fee on T+D contracts, a widely watched sign of physical demand.
• Contracts that did not trade on a day are left out.

Pricing

$0.0005 per record. The latest day for everything (about 15 records) costs under $0.01; ten years of daily gold benchmark fixings (about 2,500 records) about $1.25.

Notes and limits

• Long quote histories are fetched one month at a time, about 1 to 2 minutes per year of all contracts.
• Official figures as published. The benchmark names belong to the Shanghai Gold Exchange; this Actor only collects the publicly displayed values and does not license the benchmarks for use in financial products.
• Only public data is collected.

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• China CNY Fixing, Shibor & LPR Rates: convert CNY prices with the official fixing.
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