Silver Rate Today in Maharashtra – 7 Nov 2026, 10 PM IST

• Today's silver rate
• Making charges and GST
• Where to buy silver

The figures in the live table are bullion reference rates for Maharashtra, quoted per gram for 999 fine silver and 925 sterling silver, refreshed every business day against MCX and IBJA benchmarks set in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar.

Maharashtra's silver demand spans Mumbai's finance and trade economy, Pune's IT and auto industries, and the state's Ganesh Chaturthi and wedding season buying. This page covers today's rate, making charges and GST, purity verification, where to buy and sell, the buying calendar, taxation and a detailed FAQ.

The weight table converts today's per gram rate into the denominations buyers in Maharashtra transact in, from a single gram through 10 grams, 100 grams and a kilogram, for both 999 and 925 purity.

Investment minded buyers in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar more often buy at the 100 gram or kilogram level, while daily wear jewellery purchases across the state typically stay in smaller gram denominations.

Silver jewellery typically attracts a melting or deduction charge of 15 percent or more at resale, which lowers effective returns compared with reselling coins or bars.

Ask any Maharashtra jeweller for their exact deduction policy before selling, since terms vary meaningfully between shops.

A single day's rate tells you very little on its own. The last ten trading sessions show whether today's print sits at the top of a run, at the bottom of a pullback, or somewhere in the middle of a flat stretch.

Silver moves harder in percentage terms than gold on the same piece of news, so a wider range over ten days is normal here than on a gold rate page over the same window.

The trend table sets today's rate against its opening and closing values over seven days, 30 days and 12 months. The shorter windows capture sentiment; the 12 month window captures the structural story, chiefly global industrial demand, ETF investment flows and the gold to silver ratio.

Maharashtra sets the national IBJA benchmark itself, with local demand shaped by the state's festival calendar and its diverse finance, IT and manufacturing driven income base.

Silver trades continuously in US dollars per troy ounce on COMEX and the London Bullion Market Association benchmark, converts at the prevailing USD to INR rate, and picks up customs duty, cess and GST before reaching Indian retail. The India Bullion and Jewellers Association, headquartered in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar, sets the national reference rate each morning that jewellers across India, including the rest of Maharashtra, price against.

Silver is more industrially exposed than gold nationally, and Maharashtra's own automotive, electronics and manufacturing economy gives silver's industrial demand story a genuine local resonance beyond most Indian states.

Real interest rates, the US dollar, industrial demand and investment flows move the international price. The rupee's exchange rate and Indian import duty changes move the local price on top of that.

Locally, wedding season, Ganesh Chaturthi and Dhanteras bring sharp seasonal uplifts in buying across Maharashtra. As gold prices climb, buyers here frequently shift toward silver jewellery and coins as a more accessible substitute.

999 fine silver is 99.9 percent pure and is the form used for investment coins and bars, heavily bought around Dhanteras and Ganesh Chaturthi.

925 sterling silver, 92.5 percent pure with the remainder mostly copper, is the standard for jewellery sold across Maharashtra's retail jewellers. Confirm which purity a quote refers to before comparing shops.

Silver hallmarking became mandatory across India from 1 September 2025, with a six digit HUID marked on each hallmarked piece alongside the BIS Standard Mark and purity grade.

Maharashtra jewellers now routinely distinguish hallmarked from non hallmarked silver pricing, so always ask which category a quoted rate refers to.

The rate shown on this page is the metal price alone. What you pay at the counter adds a making charge, then GST at 3 percent on the combined total of metal value plus making charge.

What making charges typically run

• Silver coins and bars | roughly 3 to 8 percent, close to 999 purity
• Standard jewellery including anklets and bangles | roughly 6 to 20 percent based on the work involved
• Kolhapuri saaj and other handcrafted regional pieces | roughly 15 to 25 percent, reflecting traditional craftsmanship

A worked example: a 40 gram silver piece with 12 percent making adds 12 percent to the metal value, then 3 percent GST on that subtotal, for a final bill roughly 15.4 percent above the pure metal value.

Several apps offer digital silver purchases that track the live rate without requiring physical storage, available in Maharashtra the same as anywhere else in India.

Digital silver typically carries a small spread between buy and sell prices, and is best suited to buyers who want price exposure without visiting a jeweller.

Akshaya Tritiya, considered universally auspicious for buying precious metals, adds a further peak to Maharashtra's silver calendar alongside Dhanteras and Ganesh Chaturthi, with coin purchases rising in the days surrounding it.

Together with wedding season, these give Maharashtra's silver retailers multiple annual peaks to plan stock and staffing around.

Silver buying in Maharashtra follows the mainstream national festival calendar, layered with the state's own Ganesh Chaturthi season.

• Dhanteras and Diwali, the strongest annual buying peak for silver coins and jewellery
• Ganesh Chaturthi, a genuinely significant regional occasion for silver idols and puja items
• Wedding season, when demand for silver ornaments and gifting items peaks alongside gold
• Akshaya Tritiya, adding a further national occasion to the calendar

As gold prices have climbed, a meaningful share of buyers here has shifted toward silver for festival purchases, wedding gifts and savings, following the same national pattern seen across India.

Maharashtra's diverse income base means this shift shows up as a genuine mix of lighter weight pieces and continued jewellery purchases, rather than buyers skipping the purchase altogether.

Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar has served as India's principal bullion trading centre for well over a century, its dominance rooted in the city's colonial era emergence as the country's leading port and financial hub.

Pune's own jewellery trade grew alongside the city's Maratha Empire heritage and later its educational and industrial expansion, while Kolhapur's craft traditions, including the Kolhapuri saaj, predate the modern retail trade by generations.

Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar is India's most influential bullion trading district, home to the India Bullion and Jewellers Association, whose daily reference rate sets the benchmark that jewellers across the entire country price against.

This gives Maharashtra a genuinely unique position: the state's own silver rate is not just a local price, but the foundation for pricing everywhere else in India.

Ganesh Chaturthi, Maharashtra's grandest annual festival, is a genuinely significant occasion for silver purchases, particularly silver idols, coins and puja items used during household celebrations and community processions.

Jewellers across Maharashtra typically see a meaningful uplift in silver sales during the Ganeshotsav period, alongside the mainstream national peak around Dhanteras.

Pune, home to a large auto and IT professional workforce, and Nagpur, Maharashtra's central India trade hub, each carry their own established jewellery retail scenes distinct from Mumbai's wholesale trading character.

This gives Maharashtra buyers genuine choice across multiple established retail centres, not just Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar.

Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar remains India's most influential bullion trading district, while Pune and Nagpur each carry their own established local jewellers serving their respective professional and trading communities.

What to check wherever you buy

• BIS hallmark and HUID number on the piece
• The day's rate displayed and the making charge quoted as a percentage in writing
• A proper GST invoice carrying weight, purity, rate and making charge

Exchange at an established jeweller, ideally the one who sold it, with the piece weighed and purity tested in front of you. Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar jewellers typically offer the most transparent buyback terms given the district's trading volume.

Jewellers commonly quote separate exchange rates for hallmarked and non hallmarked silver, so confirm which rate applies to your specific piece before agreeing to a sale.

Taxes on silver are set nationally, so nothing here is specific to Maharashtra.

At purchase, GST at 3 percent applies on the value of the metal plus making charges. At sale, profit on physical silver held over the qualifying period is taxed as long term capital gains; shorter holdings are taxed at your slab rate. Large cash purchases require PAN above the prescribed threshold.

None of this is tax advice. For a large transaction, confirm current rules with a chartered accountant.

Silver is more volatile than gold day to day, since it carries a genuine industrial demand component nationally alongside its investment role. Coins and bars in 999 purity carry the lowest making cost and recover the most value on resale, while jewellery in 925 purity carries making charges not recovered on resale.

Given Maharashtra's automotive, electronics and manufacturing economy, silver's own industrial demand story resonates here in a way it may not in a purely agricultural state.

Silver in India traded around 37,000 to 40,000 rupees per kilogram in 2015 and 2016, and stayed close to that band through 2018 and 2019. The metal rose steadily after the pandemic, crossing 78,000 rupees per kilogram in 2023.

The RBI's annual average for financial year 2024 to 2025 stood at roughly 89,000 rupees per kilogram, and financial year 2025 to 2026 saw an increase of about 82 percent to roughly 1,62,000 rupees per kilogram. Maharashtra's local rates, being the very benchmark others follow, defined this national curve throughout.

Over the full decade, an investor holding physical silver from 2015 through 2025 saw their holding value roughly triple.

Unlike gold, over half of global silver demand now comes from industry rather than jewellery or investment, chiefly solar panels, electric vehicles, semiconductors and 5G hardware, categories Maharashtra's own auto and electronics manufacturing base ties into directly.

India imports over 80 percent of the silver it consumes, largely through Mumbai's ports. In September 2025 the government restricted imports of plain silver jewellery, and in May 2026 raised the import duty on silver bullion, changes that move the domestic price for the whole country independently of the global rate for a period.

The practical approach for most buyers is to purchase against genuine need and timeline rather than trying to time the market.

Silver is more volatile than gold day to day because of its industrial demand component. Over the last decade silver has occasionally outpaced gold in percentage terms during rally phases, though it also falls harder during pullbacks.

Equity markets have historically delivered higher long run returns than precious metals, but with far more volatility. Debt instruments give predictable, lower returns with minimal price risk.

For households here, silver's role in savings is usually a small, liquid, culturally central holding tied to weddings and festivals, not a replacement for the Bombay Stock Exchange listed equity or debt instruments many Maharashtrians also hold.

Physical silver, bought as coins, bars or jewellery from a Maharashtra jeweller, gives you something you can hold, gift or wear, but attracts 3 percent GST, requires safe storage, and jewellery carries making charges not recovered on resale.

Silver ETFs, traded on the Mumbai based Bombay Stock Exchange and NSE, let you hold silver electronically without storage or GST, through a regular demat account. Both physical silver and silver ETFs are taxed the same way, at 12.5 percent on long term capital gains without indexation for holdings over 12 months.

• 999 fine silver: 99.9 percent pure, used for coins and bars
• 925 sterling silver: mixed with copper for strength, the standard for jewellery
• Chandi: the Marathi and Hindi word for silver, commonly used in local searches; sona means gold
• Making charges: the fee a jeweller adds for crafting a piece
• HUID: the unique six digit hallmark identification number
• IBJA: the India Bullion and Jewellers Association, headquartered in Mumbai, source of the national reference rate

India imports over 80 percent of the silver it consumes, mostly as bullion cleared through Mumbai's ports before reaching refiners and eventually jewellers across Maharashtra and the rest of India.

More than half of global silver demand comes from industry rather than jewellery, and Maharashtra's substantial auto and electronics manufacturing base, contributing roughly 35 percent of India's automobile output by value, ties directly into this demand story.

Silver retail in Maharashtra is shaped by Mumbai's unmatched position as India's bullion trading capital, Pune's IT and auto driven professional income, and the state's strong Ganesh Chaturthi and wedding traditions.

This combination gives Maharashtra's silver market a genuinely unique national significance, since Zaveri Bazaar sets the benchmark that the rest of the country prices against.

Silver tarnishes when exposed to air and humidity, particularly relevant along Maharashtra's coastal, monsoon heavy Konkan belt. Keep pieces in an airtight pouch or box, ideally with an anti tarnish strip.

For larger holdings, a bank locker in your city remains the most secure option. Keep your original purchase invoice with your stored silver, since it establishes purity, weight and cost basis if you need to sell or claim insurance later.

If you are in Maharashtra and considering a silver or lab grown diamond jewellery purchase, Lucira offers hallmarked silver and certified lab grown diamond pieces with transparent, itemised pricing and doorstep delivery across India, so you can compare designs and pricing without needing to visit multiple local shops in person.

Every Lucira piece is priced against the live daily rate shown on this page, with making charges and certification costs shown separately.

A proper invoice from a Maharashtra jeweller should show the net silver weight in grams, the purity, the rate applied per gram that day, the making charge, and GST at 3 percent applied on the metal plus making charge combined.

If a piece carries stones, the invoice should state the net silver weight separately from the gross weight. A hallmarked piece should also show the HUID number, verifiable through the BIS CARE app.

Silver and property serve fundamentally different purposes as assets. Property in Mumbai or Pune requires a large upfront commitment and is illiquid, particularly given the region's high real estate prices. Silver can be bought and sold in small increments and converted to cash within minutes.

Most households here do not choose between the two. Property tends to serve as a long term family asset, while silver serves as a smaller, liquid holding for weddings and religious occasions.

• A quoted rate below the day's published benchmark, which usually means lower purity than claimed
• Gross weight billed as if it were net silver weight on stone set or ornamental pieces
• Making charges quoted verbally but not itemised on the final bill

Always confirm the current BIS hallmark and HUID independently through the BIS CARE app rather than taking a seller's word for it.

Many jewellers across Maharashtra offer monthly instalment schemes where you deposit a fixed amount each month for around 11 months, with a bonus instalment added at the end, redeemable against jewellery.

Before joining one, confirm in writing whether redemption is locked at deposit day rates or redemption day rates, and check whether the bonus is forfeited if you exit early.

• Jewellery from a local jeweller: wearable and giftable, but making charges reduce resale value
• 999 coins and bars: lowest making cost, best for pure savings
• Silver ETFs: no storage or GST, held in a demat account

Most households here use a mix, wedding and festive silver bought for its cultural role, and coins, bars or ETFs bought purely as savings.

Under the rules applicable for financial year 2025 to 2026, profit on physical silver or silver ETFs held for more than 12 months is taxed as long term capital gains at 12.5 percent without indexation. Holdings sold within 12 months are taxed at your income tax slab rate.

Your gain is calculated as the sale price minus your original purchase cost, including making charges, which is why keeping your original invoice matters. Confirm current rules with a chartered accountant before a large sale.

Unlike gold, there is no prescribed ceiling on how much silver an individual can hold in India, provided it is acquired through disclosed, taxed income and you can produce invoices if asked.

Cash payments for a single silver purchase above the prescribed threshold require your PAN card, and payments above two lakh rupees in cash for a single transaction are not permitted regardless of PAN.

Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar remains the single most important reference point for silver pricing not just in Maharashtra but across India, with Pune, Nagpur, Nashik and Kolhapur each carrying their own established local jewellers.

For any significant purchase, comparing making charges across at least two shops is a reasonable and common practice, particularly for handcrafted regional pieces like the Kolhapuri saaj where craftsmanship quality varies.

A mix of established local jewellers and national retail chains serve Maharashtra's cities, particularly in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur given their larger, more diverse customer base.

This gives urban Maharashtra buyers a real choice between traditional and branded retail formats within the same city.

Maharashtra's manufacturing base in automotive, electronics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals supports a genuinely stable, salaried customer base for the state's jewellers, distinct from the more seasonal, agriculturally linked demand seen in some other Indian states.

This industrial backbone, combined with Mumbai's finance sector wealth and the state's strong festive customs, gives Maharashtra one of India's largest and most diverse silver jewellery retail presences.

Wedding season demand for silver ornaments and gifting items peaks in Maharashtra alongside gold, following the broader national wedding calendar drawn from traditional Marathi customs.

Jewellers typically stock their widest festive and bridal range in the weeks leading into this window, alongside their Ganesh Chaturthi and Dhanteras preparations.

If you are comparing metals, check the gold and platinum rates for Maharashtra as well.

• Gold rate today in Maharashtra
• Platinum rate today in Maharashtra