Current Zinc Price and Zinc Rate with Chart
Zinc earns its keep by sacrificing itself: galvanised steel does not rust because the less noble zinc dissolves in place of the iron beneath it. That one application accounts for by far the largest part of demand, which makes zinc an even purer building-cycle metal than copper. Brass and zinc die casting follow, and beside the industrial uses stands a biological one — zinc is an essential trace element. Here you will find the current zinc price per tonne in euros and US dollars, with the chart, the performance table and a lookup for any past date. The series on this page begins in 2023: the earlier data from our provider was wrong in large blocks and has deliberately been left out rather than smoothed. The guide below explains how cathodic protection works, why the zinc price also depends on the silver price, and what solid zinc scrap is worth.
Here you see the current Zinc 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.
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Source: Spot
The chart shows the price development of the Zinc 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 Zinc 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.
| 2026-11-06 | EUR | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 3,350.11 € | 3,758.42 $ |
| High | 3,375.83 € | 3,784.14 $ |
| Low | 3,324.39 € | 3,706.98 $ |
| Close | 3,337.25 € | 3,716.63 $ |
Source: Spot
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Here you can see the current zinc 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 Zinc 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 | +26.27 € | +0.79 % | +28.94 $ | +0.78 % |
| 7 Days | -106.26 € | -3.07 % | -118.96 $ | -3.08 % |
| 30 Days | +17.62 € | +0.53 % | +19.29 $ | +0.52 % |
| since Jan 1 | +611.19 € | +22.26 % | +681.60 $ | +22.25 % |
| 1 Year | +403.81 € | +13.67 % | +450.11 $ | +13.66 % |
The seasonality chart shows the average monthly return of the Zinc 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 Zinc 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.
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Zinc Sacrifices Itself for the Steel
By far the largest use is galvanising: steel is coated with a thin layer of zinc so that it does not rust. Crash barriers, lamp posts, gutters, scaffolding, screws — wherever steel stands outdoors, it is as a rule galvanised.
The protection works differently from how one would assume. The zinc layer is not simply a cover: zinc is less noble than iron, so when the layer is damaged it is the zinc that dissolves, not the iron beneath it. Specialists speak of a sacrificial anode. A scratch in galvanised sheet does not rust onwards as long as there is still zinc around it.
For the market that means zinc demand hangs almost directly on steel production and therefore on construction and infrastructure. Zinc is, even more than copper, a building-cycle metal.
Brass, Die Casting and a Trace Element
After galvanising, brass is the second largest customer — an alloy of copper and zinc whose properties can be adjusted over a wide range through the mixing ratio. Door furniture, taps, musical instruments and cartridge cases are made of it.
The third large branch is zinc die casting. Zinc melts at 420 degrees Celsius and can therefore be cast into moulds very precisely — vehicle parts, housings, zips and toy cars are made this way.
Beside that stands a role that has nothing to do with industry: zinc is an essential trace element. The body needs it for the immune system, for wound healing and for a large number of enzymes, but cannot store it. Hence zinc tablets — and hence zinc deficiency as a nutritional problem found the world over.
A By-Product With a Market of Its Own
Zinc is rarely mined on its own. It usually sits in ores together with lead, often with silver and copper as well, and many mines win all of these metals in a single pass.
That has a peculiar consequence for price formation: whether a mine produces is decided not by the zinc price alone but by the revenue from all the metals together. A high silver price can bring zinc to market that would not pay for itself — and the other way round.
Zinc supply therefore reacts more sluggishly to the zinc price than metals from single-metal mines do. A shortage can last longer, because nobody opens a pure zinc mine at short notice.
What Old Zinc Is Worth
Unlike copper or aluminium, recovery from galvanising is difficult: the layer is thin and firmly bonded to the steel. When galvanised steel scrap is melted down the zinc evaporates and is recovered from the filter dust — technically possible, but not a business for private individuals.
Solid zinc parts, by contrast, are tradeable: die-cast parts, old gutters, zinc sheet. Scrap dealers accept them, and as with all scrap metals the price is decided by the purity of the sort.
The material value calculated on this page is the exchange value of pure zinc. What a buyer pays is below that — they have to sort, transport and have the metal melted down.