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.
Zinc price details →
Source: Spot
Every point on this curve is a recorded Zinc 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.
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Name a date and the lookup returns what Zinc 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.
| 2026-11-06 | GBP | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 2,795.19 £ | 3,758.42 $ |
| High | 2,816.73 £ | 3,784.14 $ |
| Low | 2,773.97 £ | 3,706.98 $ |
| Close | 2,784.58 £ | 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 | GBP | % GBP | 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 % |
Twenty years of Zinc 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 Zinc 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.
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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.