Current Aluminium Price and Aluminium Rate with Chart
Aluminium is the most widely used non-ferrous metal in the world, and the exchange quotes it per tonne rather than per troy ounce — a single ounce would be worth a few cents. The price hangs less on ore than on electricity: a kilogram of primary aluminium takes roughly 14 to 15 kilowatt hours, which is why smelters stand next to hydro, coal and gas power stations and why European plants are the first to be switched off in an energy crisis. Here you will find the current aluminium price per tonne in euros and US dollars, with the chart, the performance table and a lookup for any past date. The guide below explains how aluminium went from being more precious than gold to an everyday material, why recycling beats mining, and what the metal is actually used for.
Here you see the current Aluminium price per tonne in your selected currency, including daily change in percent and absolute.
Below you find the current exchange rate and the price in the second currency. At the bottom are the prices per gram, troy ounce and kilogram.
Tip: When the market is open, the price updates automatically every minute.
Aluminium price details →
Source: Spot
The chart shows the price development of the Aluminium price over the selected period. Move your mouse over the chart to see the exact price on a specific day.
Select the time period above (Today to Max). You can zoom into an area with your mouse. The statistics cards below show high, low, and change for the selected period.
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Look up the Aluminium price for any date in the past. You will see open, high, low, and close prices as well as the price per gram and kilogram.
Tip: Select a date. If no trading took place on your selected day, the nearest available rate will be shown.
| 06/11/2026 | EUR | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 2,713.52 € | 3,044.68 $ |
| High | 2,755.32 € | 3,070.40 $ |
| Low | 2,710.31 € | 3,031.82 $ |
| Close | 2,745.67 € | 3,057.54 $ |
Source: Spot
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Here you can see the current aluminium price converted to different weight units: gram, troy ounce (31.1 g) and kilogram.
The second row shows the price in the other currency for comparison.
Tip: A troy ounce is the international trading unit for precious metals and equals 31.1035 grams.
1 Troy Ounce = 31.1035 Grams
The performance table shows how the Aluminium price has developed over various time periods: from today to 5 years.
You can see the absolute change in both currencies as well as the percentage change. Green values indicate gain, red values indicate loss.
Tip: Compare the EUR and USD performance to identify the impact of the exchange rate.
| Period | EUR | % EUR | USD | % USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | +22.22 € | +0.81 % | +25.72 $ | +0.84 % |
| 7 Days | +2.03 € | +0.07 % | +3.22 $ | +0.10 % |
| 30 Days | +42.37 € | +1.56 % | +48.23 $ | +1.59 % |
| since Jan 1 | +76.94 € | +2.87 % | +86.81 $ | +2.90 % |
| 1 Year | +177.76 € | +6.88 % | +199.33 $ | +6.91 % |
| 5 Years | +454.29 € | +19.69 % | +507.98 $ | +19.73 % |
The seasonality chart shows the average monthly return of the Aluminium price over the last 20 years.
Green bars show months with historically positive returns, red bars months with negative returns.
Tip: Seasonality only shows historical averages and is no guarantee for the future.
The calendar shows the daily price change of the Aluminium price as a heatmap. Each cell represents a trading day (Monday to Friday).
Green cells = price increase, red cells = price decrease.
Hover over a cell to see the exact price and change on that day.
Here you can find a quick overview of the current prices of the other precious metals. The percentage shows the daily change.
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From the World's Most Expensive Metal to an Everyday Material
Aluminium is the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust after oxygen and silicon — and it was nevertheless more precious than gold well into the 19th century. The reason: it never occurs as a metal in nature, only chemically bound, above all in bauxite. Prising it out of that bond could long be done only in tiny quantities.
Napoleon III is said to have laid aluminium cutlery before his most important guests at table while the rest had to make do with gold. The Washington Monument was capped with an aluminium pyramid in 1884 — at the time a prestige object of considerable value.
Two years later, in 1886, Charles Hall and Paul Héroult independently developed the molten-salt electrolysis still in use today. Within a few years the price fell by more than a hundredfold. Aluminium is thus the only metal whose history of value has been turned around by a single invention.
Solidified Electricity
Producing primary aluminium is extraordinarily power-hungry: a kilogram takes roughly 14 to 15 kilowatt hours, and in a process that has to run without interruption. If the power fails for a few hours the melt freezes in the cells and the plant is damaged.
From that follows the geography of the industry: aluminium smelters stand where electricity is cheap and reliable — at hydro plants in Norway and Canada, at coal plants in China, at gas plants in the Gulf. The aluminium price therefore hangs more on the price of power than on the price of bauxite.
It is also the reason why European smelters are the first to be switched off in an energy crisis. For an investor that means the aluminium price responds to electricity markets and energy policy, not only to the building cycle.
Recycling Beats Mining
Remelted aluminium needs only about five per cent of the energy that would be required to produce it from bauxite. No other common metal has so large a gap between the primary and the secondary route.
Scrap aluminium is therefore a market of its own, and a well organised one: drinks cans, window frames, engine blocks and body panels are collected, sorted and melted down again. A considerable share of the aluminium in use today has already been something else.
In practice that also means the buying price for cleanly sorted aluminium scrap sits closer to the exchange quote than it does for many other kinds of scrap — still below it, though, and how far below is decided by the purity of the sort.
What Aluminium Is Used For
Density is the selling point: 2.70 grams per cubic centimetre, a good third of steel. Wherever mass has to be moved, that pays off — in vehicle building, in aircraft building, in packaging.
Added to that is a property you cannot see. In air, aluminium immediately forms a wafer-thin, tightly adhering oxide layer that protects the metal beneath. What looks like corrosion resistance is in truth very fast corrosion that stops itself.
The fourth large customer is power transmission. Aluminium conducts worse than copper, but better in relation to its weight — and overhead lines have to be carried by pylons. That is why high-voltage lines consist of aluminium with a steel core.