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
Use this chart to follow the Aluminium price minute by minute or decade by decade. Whichever span you pick, holding the cursor over the line calls up the precise figure recorded on that date.
A row of buttons sits above the chart, from Today at one end to Max at the other. Select a stretch with the mouse to enlarge it. The three cards underneath keep score: highest, lowest and overall change.
Tip: The Today view is built from live ticks, one data point for each minute of the session.
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Choose any day in the archive and the tool returns the full Aluminium record for it — where trading opened and closed, how high and how low it went, and what that works out at per gram and per kilogram.
Tip: Choose a date. Where the requested day brought no trading at all, the nearest session on file is returned in its place.
| 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 bars condense two decades of Aluminium trading into twelve figures, one average result for each calendar month.
A green bar means the month averaged out in profit over that span, a red bar means it averaged out lower.
Tip: These are historical averages. Nothing obliges the coming months to repeat them.
A year of Aluminium trading on a grid, with one tinted square for every weekday session from Monday to Friday.
Days that ended in profit are tinted green; days that ended lower are tinted red.
Hovering over a square brings up the closing figure and the change it represents.
Here you can find a quick overview of the current prices of the other precious metals. The percentage shows the daily change.
Tip: Click on a metal to go directly to its detail page.
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.