XAU/EUR Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads Gold vs Euro (XAU/EUR) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. History runs from 2023-03-14 — around 3 years — at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. A complete XAU/EUR 1-minute series is roughly 1.3M rows, about 66 MB as CSV.
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Windows, macOS, Linux · €9 one-time for the entry licence · get the app
What the app fetches for XAU/EUR
| Symbol | XAU/EUR |
|---|---|
| Instrument | Gold vs Euro |
| Asset class | Forex Metals |
| History available from | 2023-03-14 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask (with volume) |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 2023-03-14 → 2026-11-02 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
XAU/EUR timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
XAU/EUR coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Every XAU/EUR timeframe shares the same 2023-03-14 start date, but not the same scale — coarser candles stay small while tick and intraday files grow fast. Current through 2026-11-02:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2023-03-14 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2023-03-14 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2023-03-14 | ~1.3M | ~66 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2023-03-14 | ~264K | ~13 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2023-03-14 | ~88,000 | ~4 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2023-03-14 | ~44,000 | ~2 MB |
| 1 hour | 2023-03-14 | ~22,000 | ~1 MB |
| 4 hours | 2023-03-14 | ~5,500 | ~275 KB |
| Daily | 2023-03-14 | ~920 | ~46 KB |
| Monthly | 2023-03-14 | ~40 | ~2 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from forex session hours across the available history. Tick and 1-second runs are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. See the data methodology for how candles are built.
Working with the XAU/EUR series
Gold priced in euros is the series European allocators actually experience, and it can diverge from dollar gold for years at a time — a flat XAU/USD with a falling euro is a gold bull market in Frankfurt. The listed pair only starts March 2023; longer history must be constructed as XAU/USD ÷ EUR/USD, which is standard practice but embeds two spreads. Attribution first: always check which leg moved.
XAU/EUR historical data — the listed series, and how to extend it
XAU/EUR tick and 1-minute data
The listed pair starts 2023-03-14 at every timeframe, ticks and daily alike, so there is no longer daily tail to fall back on. The full 1-minute run is 1.3M rows, about 66 MB as CSV, and the complete daily file is 920 rows, about 46 KB as CSV. For most gold-in-euros research that is too short on its own, which is why the next section exists.
Gold in euros before 2023: build it from two files
Gold in euros per ounce is XAU/USD ÷ EUR/USD: dollars per ounce divided by dollars per euro. Download XAU/USD and EUR/USD at the same timeframe and over the same range, join them on the timestamp (both files are UTC), and divide. A daily series built this way reaches back to 1999-06-03, where the shorter of the two daily archives begins; an intraday series reaches back to 2003-05-05. Join on exact timestamps rather than by row number — the two files do not have identical gaps, and a row-wise divide pairs prices from different moments.
Bid and ask for a constructed series
To get the bid side right, use XAU/USD bid ÷ EUR/USD ask; for the ask, use XAU/USD ask ÷ EUR/USD bid. Selling gold for euros means selling gold for dollars, then buying euros with those dollars, and you pay a spread on both legs. Dividing bid by bid gives a series that looks a little tighter than any you could actually trade. Expect the constructed spread to be wider than the listed pair's, and measure the difference over the overlap since 2023-03-14 before using a backtest on the earlier years.
Is XAU/EUR historical data free?
The app is a free download and the data comes straight from Dukascopy Bank SA to your disk, never through our servers. Every licence, including the €9 entry tier, reaches the whole archive at every timeframe — XAU/EUR, XAU/USD and EUR/USD alike. Tiers differ by software features, never by history.
What's inside the XAU/EUR file
timestamp,open,high,low,close,volumeOne row per candle, stamped with the bar's opening time; tick files instead carry timestamp,askPrice,bidPrice,askVolume,bidVolume on every quote — ask first. Timestamps are epoch milliseconds in UTC, which pd.to_datetime(df.timestamp, unit="ms", utc=True) or =A2/86400000+DATE(1970,1,1) turns into a date. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About Gold vs Euro
Gold vs Euro (XAU/EUR) is a spot precious-metals instrument with 3 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for backtesting forex trading strategies and expert advisors (EAs), spread and volatility analysis, training algorithmic and machine-learning models, and charting currency-pair history. Pick any date range from 2023-03-14 onward, choose a timeframe and the bid or ask side, and the app fetches and writes the files locally — no scripting.
Frequently asked questions
- How far back does XAU/EUR data go?
- XAU/EUR history runs from 2023-03-14 — roughly 3 years — up to the last completed trading day, at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. Every licence tier reaches all of it.
- How large is a full XAU/EUR download?
- The complete XAU/EUR 1-minute history is roughly 1.3M rows, about 66 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 920 rows, 46 KB. Tick and 1-second runs are larger again and are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. Sizes are approximate; nothing is priced by volume.
- What columns are in the XAU/EUR CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns (with volume); tick files contain a timestamp with bid and ask prices. All timestamps are UTC. The files import directly into Excel, Google Sheets, Python (pandas read_csv), R, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- Do you sell XAU/EUR data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves Gold vs Euro (XAU/EUR) on your own machine, under your instruction, directly from the source; we never host, cache or relay it. Your use of the retrieved data is subject to the source's terms.
Guides
- Get the app — Windows, macOS, Linux
- How to download historical forex data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- Gold price history
- Gold tick data
- Backtesting gold
- Gold–silver ratio
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