Current Lead Price and Lead Rate with Chart
Lead is the industrial metal with the narrowest demand base: by far the greatest part of world production goes into lead-acid batteries — starter batteries in combustion-engine vehicles and the standby power supply of data centres, hospitals and mobile-phone masts. That makes the market comparatively predictable and at the same time vulnerable, because there is no second application of that size. A second peculiarity is recycling: in many countries more lead comes from secondary smelters than from mines, which damps the effect of mine outages on the price. Here you will find the current lead 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 2021; the earlier data from our provider did not survive a comparison against the published World Bank prices and has deliberately been left out. The guide below explains what lead is still used for, why it has been pushed out of almost everything else, and what its physical properties mean in practice.
Here you see the current Lead 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.
Lead price details →
Source: Spot
Every point on this curve is a recorded Lead quote from the window you have chosen. Run the pointer along the line and the tooltip reveals the exact level reached on that particular trading day.
The buttons above switch the window, running from Today through to Max. Drag across a stretch of the curve to magnify it. Beneath the chart, three summary cards report the peak, the trough and the net move.
Tip: Choose Today and the series resolves down to a single reading per minute.
(09/11/26)
(06/11/26)
(09/11/26)
(09/11/26)
Name a date and the lookup returns what Lead was worth on it: the opening and closing levels, the extremes reached in between, and the equivalent figures per gram and per kilogram.
Tip: Pick your date. Should London have been shut that day, the lookup falls back to the closest session it holds.
| 06.11.2026 | GBP | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 1,400.49 £ | 1,880.82 $ |
| High | 1,411.10 £ | 1,890.46 $ |
| Low | 1,397.59 £ | 1,877.60 $ |
| Close | 1,405.63 £ | 1,877.60 $ |
Source: Spot
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Here you can see the current lead 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 Lead 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 | GBP | % GBP | USD | % USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | +8.71 £ | +0.52 % | +9.65 $ | +0.51 % |
| 7 Days | -5.69 £ | -0.34 % | -6.43 $ | -0.34 % |
| 30 Days | +14.47 £ | +0.86 % | +16.08 $ | +0.86 % |
| since Jan 1 | -66.20 £ | -3.77 % | -73.95 $ | -3.77 % |
| 1 Year | -141.11 £ | -7.70 % | -157.54 $ | -7.70 % |
| 5 Years | -195.83 £ | -10.38 % | -218.63 $ | -10.38 % |
Twenty years of Lead data, averaged calendar month by calendar month and condensed into a single bar chart.
Bars in green mark months that averaged a gain; those in red averaged a loss.
Tip: Averages describe the past. They carry no promise about the months ahead.
One square per trading session, Monday through Friday, shaded by the daily move in the Lead price.
Sessions that closed up appear green, sessions that closed down appear red.
Point at a square to read the level and the move behind it.
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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A Metal With Almost Only One Purpose Left
Hardly any industrial metal depends so heavily on a single application as lead: by far the greatest part of world production goes into lead-acid batteries. Every starter battery in a combustion-engine vehicle is one, and so is the standby power supply of data centres, hospitals and mobile-phone masts.
That concentration makes the lead market comparatively predictable. It hangs on the vehicle fleet and on the number of installations that need an uninterruptible power supply — both of which change slowly.
It also makes it vulnerable. If lithium technology prevails in standby power, or if the stock of combustion engines falls markedly, the largest customer disappears. Unlike copper or aluminium, there is no second application of that order of magnitude that could absorb it.
The Best Recycled Metal of All
Lead-acid batteries are collected and reprocessed almost completely. The reason is not virtue but economics and regulation: an old battery has a clear material value, it is easy to identify, and it must not go into household waste.
From that follows a peculiarity of the market: a large part of the lead sold today does not come from mining but from secondary smelters. In many countries secondary production is larger than primary production.
For the price that means a shortage caused by mine outages feeds through more weakly than with other metals, because supply comes to a considerable extent from the stock already in circulation. Conversely, a collapse in the collection of old batteries — in a recession with fewer vehicle changes, say — can tighten supply.
Toxic, and Pushed Back Because of It
Lead is a neurotoxin that accumulates in the body. It has therefore been driven, one after another, out of almost every application in which people come into contact with it: out of petrol, out of paint, out of water pipes, out of solder for electronics.
The chemical symbol Pb comes from the Latin plumbum, and so does the English word plumbing for pipework — Rome laid its water pipes in lead. Whether that contributed to the decline of the empire is disputed; that it was a bad idea by today's standards is not.
What is left are the applications in which lead stays enclosed: batteries in sealed casings, radiation shielding in medicine and engineering, ballast and counterweights. Regulation has therefore not destroyed the market but reduced it to what can be encapsulated.
Soft, Heavy, Low-Melting
At 11.34 grams per cubic centimetre, lead is one of the densest metals in everyday use — a good four times as heavy as aluminium. That is exactly what makes it usable as radiation shielding and as ballast: a lot of mass in little space.
It is also soft enough to be scratched with a fingernail, and it melts at just 327 degrees Celsius. For centuries both were the reason for its spread: lead could be cast and formed with the simplest of means.
None of that matters for the way the price is formed — but it does matter for storage. Lead is indifferent to air and water because it covers itself with a protective layer. Old lead loses practically nothing of its substance over the years.