1 Tola Gold Price in Dubai Today

The tola is a traditional South Asian unit of weight. The Dubai Jewellery Group (DJG) rate that UAE shops work from is quoted in grams, so a tola price is always a conversion. The value used for gold is 1 tola = 11.6638 grams. In other units that is 0.375 of a troy ounce, so 8 tola weigh almost exactly 3 troy ounces.

A tola is not 10 grams. 10 grams is about 0.857 tola, and a 10 gram piece is about 14% lighter than a 1 tola piece. Mixing the two up is the quickest way to misread a price.

So 1 kg of gold is a little under 86 tola, and 100 tola weigh a little over 1.16 kg. These are conversions, not prices; the table above the guide shows prices from 1 to 100 tola.

Each figure is the gold value at today’s rate for the karat. Jewellery adds a making charge and 5% VAT. For karat detail, see the 24K rate, the 22K rate and the 21K rate.

DJG publishes its suggested retail rate in dirhams per gram, one figure per karat, on its rate page. It does not publish a tola rate. Every tola price on this page is our arithmetic: the per-gram rate for the karat x 11.6638. Because DJG announces one unified retail price for the UAE market, the result is the same in every emirate.

Two rules keep the sum honest. First, multiply by the full 11.6638, not by 11.66 or 12; on 10 tola, dropping the last two decimals already moves the weight by 0.038 grams, and rounding to 12 grams per tola adds more than 3 grams. Second, use the rate of the karat you are buying: a 22K tola priced at the 24K rate is overcharged by the whole gap between the two rates.

A 10 tola bar should weigh 116.638 grams. If you are offered one, check that weight and the purity stamp (999 or 999.9 for 24K) on the bar and on the invoice.

• VAT: under Article 36 of the VAT Executive Regulation, gold of 99% purity or more in a form tradeable in global bullion markets is zero-rated (Federal Tax Authority). A 24K tola bar of that kind carries no VAT; tola weights of jewellery carry 5%.
• Price: the DJG figure is a suggested retail jewellery price. A dealer prices a bar per piece, so compare the dealer’s price with 10 tola at the 24K rate above, AED 54,586.58, and ask what the difference covers.
• Where: the gold bar and coin sellers in our directory, and the gold bar price page for bar sizes from 1 gram to 1 kg.

DJG says its suggested retail price is followed by the jewellery retail trade, and that price is quoted per gram, while many buyers think in tola.To turn a per-tola price into a per-gram price, divide by 11.6638; to go the other way, multiply. Before agreeing, ask for the weight in grams from the scale, the karat and the making charge as separate figures, then check the total with the gold price calculator, which accepts tola as a unit. Shops in Deira’s market are listed under Gold Souk shops, and places that buy gold back under gold buyers.