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Gold Guides for the UAE

Practical guides to selling, buying and pricing gold in the UAE. Every figure is taken from an official page or from the terms a gold business publishes itself, and each guide lists its sources with the date we read them.

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Dailyrates from the Dubai Jewellery Group
Datedsources, read by us

01 Selling gold How to Sell Gold in Dubai: Price, Documents and Where to Sell What happens at the counter, how the offer is worked out from the day's rate, which documents to bring and how you are paid, from the published terms of eight Dubai gold buyers. 7 min read, updated 14 November 2026 Read the guide

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02 Gold Bars, Biscuits and Coins in Dubai: Sizes, Prices and Where to Buy What a gold biscuit is, which bar and coin sizes UAE refiners make and in what purity, how a bar's price compares with the daily 24K rate, and why investment gold carries no VAT. 8 min read 03 Gold Making Charges in Dubai, and What Zero Making Charge Offers Mean How a Dubai jeweller builds the price of a piece from the day's gold rate, its own making charge and 5% VAT, how to calculate the total, and what the terms of zero making charge offers say. 7 min read 04 Is Gold Cheaper in Dubai? Duty Free, the Souk and the Daily Rate The parts of a gold price in Dubai, from the unified daily rate to the making charge, VAT and the tourist refund, what Dubai Duty Free lists, and what you may carry home to India. 7 min read 05 Gold Souk guide Getting there by metro, bus or water taxi, shop timings, making charges, the purity checks and the VAT refund for tourists. 7 min read

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06 Gold Ring Price in Dubai: 22K, 21K and 18K Rings by Weight How a gold ring is priced in Dubai, today's gold value for rings of 1 to 8 grams, seven real price breakdowns from one UAE store, and what size, stones and resale change in what you pay. 8 min read 07 Gold Chain Price in Dubai: 22K and 18K Chains for Men and Women How gold chains are priced in Dubai, today's gold value for common chain weights, seven men's and women's chains with their full breakdown, and how length, clasp and karat change what you pay. 5 min read 08 Gold Necklace Price in Dubai: Necklaces and Sets by Weight and Karat How gold necklaces and necklace sets are priced in Dubai, today's gold value for common weights, six pieces with their full breakdown, and what sets, pearls and bridal orders change in the bill. 6 min read 09 Gold Bracelet and Bangle Price in Dubai by Weight The gold in a bangle or bracelet costs the same in every shop on the same day; the making charge does not. Here is how the price is built, from 36 real breakdowns read on 14 November 2026. 7 min read 10 Gold Earrings Price in Dubai: 22K Studs, Jhumkas and 18K Diamond Earrings Earrings are light, so the making charge and the stones decide more of the price than the gold does. Real breakdowns of 22K and 18K earrings listed on 14 November 2026 show how much. 6 min read 11 White Gold Price in the UAE: How It Is Priced and What It Is White gold is priced at the rate for its karat, not at a white gold rate. What the alloy is, what rhodium plating does, and what to ask about nickel before you buy. 6 min read 12 Gold Ounce Price in the UAE Today: Grams in an Ounce of Gold How many grams are in an ounce of gold, why the world price is quoted in dollars per troy ounce while UAE shops quote dirhams per gram, and what an ounce is worth today in each karat. 6 min read 13 Gold Price History in the UAE: Daily Rates by Karat The Dubai Jewellery Group gold rate day by day from our archive, how that rate is set and what moves it, and where to find official gold price history going back further. 6 min read

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14 What 916 Gold Means, and How to Read UAE Gold Hallmarks What the numbers 916, 875 and 750 stand for, the seven legal fineness standards for gold in UAE law, the three parts of the official hallmark, foreign marks such as 585, and when a tag replaces the stamp. 7 min read 15 How to Check Gold Purity in the UAE The three ways to check the purity of gold in the UAE, from the free hallmark check to the Gold Souk self-service device and the Dubai Central Laboratory, and what an XRF test can and cannot tell you. 6 min read

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16 VAT on Gold in the UAE: Jewellery, Bars and the Tourist Refund What a private buyer pays on jewellery, when gold bars and coins are zero-rated, how the reverse charge works between registered dealers, and what a tourist gets back on leaving the UAE. 6 min read 17 Zakat on Gold in the UAE: Nisab, Rate and How to Calculate The rule Awqaf publishes for zakat on gold, how 22K, 21K and 18K gold is converted to its 24K equivalent, a worked example in grams, and where to get a free calculation or ask about your case. 6 min read

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How we write the guides

Official pages first. Rates, purity and consumer rules come from the Dubai Jewellery Group, the Federal Tax Authority, u.ae and other government pages.
Businesses in their own words. How buyers and shops work is taken from the terms they publish themselves, and we say how many of them state each thing.
Real dates only. A guide shows the date its sources were read. We do not print a "reviewed" date without a review behind it.
No gaps filled from memory. When an official source does not publish a figure, the guide says so.
No investment advice. We explain how prices and transactions work, not whether to buy or sell.
Corrections. If you see a figure that has changed, write to info@emirae.pro and we will check it against the source.

Author

Maksim Dastanka

Founder and CEO, Emirae.Pro

Maksim runs Emirae.Pro, a directory of UAE businesses and the gold rate pages it publishes every day. He writes the gold guides from official sources and from the terms that gold businesses publish themselves, and he reads every source a guide cites before it goes live.