Silver Price History
$59.76 per troy ounce, today
Record close $115.08 on January 26, 2026
Silver spot $59.76/oz · updated
Quick answer: Silver is $59.76 today, the current silver price per ounce, and the chart below shows where it has been over ten years. The five-year change is +156.8%, and the record close in our series is $115.08, set on January 26, 2026. A table lists each year's open, high, low, close and change.
Ten years on one chart
Silver price, 10 years and all time
Past year is daily closes, past 5 years weekly, and the 10-year and all-time ranges use month-end closes, which smooth over spikes inside a single month.
Data sources: Spot price via api.gold-api.com · COMEX futures (SI=F) via Yahoo Finance. Prices are for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Figures on this page were generated . Silver is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.
The chart draws silver's price from the same series that feeds the rest of this site. Use the range tabs to move between a short window and the long view. Hover over the line to read a value for a date. If the chart is not visible, the year table further down carries the same story in text.
A long chart flattens recent detail and sharpens long trends. Over a decade, a move of several dollars can look like a ripple, while the same move on a one-month chart looks like a cliff. Neither picture is wrong; they answer different questions. If you want to know how silver got to where it is now, use the long view. If you want to know what happened last week, use a short one.
What the data resolution is for each range
Each range on the chart uses a different spacing of data points, and it is worth knowing which one you are looking at.
- Past month, past 6 months and past year: one closing price per trading day.
- Past 5 years: one closing price per week.
- All time: one closing price per month, taken at month-end.
The longer the range, the fewer points the line is built from. A month-end close tells you where silver finished that month, but it can hide a sharp swing in the middle of it. The same is true of weekly closes, to a smaller degree. We state this in the caption of the table and on every long chart because a high or low read off a long-range chart may not match a high or low read off a daily chart. The gold-silver ratio page makes the same point about its own monthly figures, with a worked example.
The year table below is built from the data, not typed by hand, and it comes from the same series as the chart. For that reason a high or low here can differ from an intraday figure you see on another site.
Year by year
| Year | Open | Close | High | Low | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $14.23 | $15.94 | $20.31 | $14.23 | +12.0% |
| 2017 | $18.42 | $17.06 | $18.42 | $16.38 | −7.4% |
| 2018 | $17.20 | $15.43 | $17.20 | $14.09 | −10.3% |
| 2019 | $16.02 | $16.97 | $18.18 | $14.53 | +5.9% |
| 2020 | $17.97 | $26.33 | $28.44 | $14.90 | +46.5% |
| 2021 | $26.90 | $23.33 | $27.99 | $22.02 | −13.3% |
| 2022 | $22.39 | $23.86 | $26.11 | $17.78 | +6.6% |
| 2023 | $23.82 | $23.85 | $25.74 | $20.38 | +0.1% |
| 2024 | $23.12 | $29.81 | $33.60 | $22.53 | +28.9% |
| 2025 | $32.13 | $70.13 | $77.37 | $29.12 | +118.3% |
| 2026 | $78.29 | $59.90 | $115.08 | $55.90 | −23.5% |
For each of the last ten years the table shows the opening price, the high, the low, the closing price and the change over the year. Read it from the top to see the order of events, or scan the change column to see which years moved most.
Do not read too much into a single row. A year that closed up can have had a deep drop in the middle, and a year that closed down can have had a long rally. The high and low columns are there to show that.
What happened in four stretches
These four short summaries use only the data on this site and the sources named in the text. They describe; they do not explain beyond what those sources say.
The 2025 run-up. According to the Silver Institute, the annual average silver price rose 42% in 2025. It tied that year's record prices to costly lease markets, tight liquidity in some regions and heavy buying by holders. In our series the one-year low close was $46.56, on October 27, 2025. From that low to the record close, silver gained 147%.
The January 2026 record and the fall that followed. The record close in our series is January 26, 2026, at $115.08. The Silver Institute reports that silver traded above $121 on 2026-01-29. News outlets, including Reuters as carried by other publishers, reported that prices then dropped sharply within days. We do not quote their percentages because we could not confirm them on a primary page. Our data shows that the price has since changed 47.9% from the record close, which measures the full distance of the fall. For the record itself and the like-with-like note on futures versus spot, see the silver price all-time high page.
The first half of 2026. The six-month change in the price is −20.4%. In an August 2026 note, J.P. Morgan Global Research said that physical tightness was unwinding from an elevated base, and listed weaker solar demand, lower Chinese imports after a VAT rebate was removed on 1 April 2026, and higher Fed rates among its reasons for a lower outlook. That is the bank's view, not ours. For why the same drivers can push in either direction, see why is silver price going up.
The last month. Over the past month silver has fallen 9.7%, so the recent direction has been down. Over the past week the price changed −0.3%, and over the past year it changed +26.9%. A month is a short window in a history this uneven, and the chart above will show you how it fits.
Reading a history chart without fooling yourself
A price history is easy to misuse. Three habits help.
Pick the start date on purpose. Starting a chart at a low makes any later price look like a big gain; starting at a high makes it look like a loss. Compare several start dates before you decide what a chart says.
Compare the same series. The record in our data is a close taken from a futures series, and spot can differ slightly. Mixing a futures record with a spot price from another site produces a gap that is a difference in method, not in the market.
Remember what history cannot do. A past pattern is not a promise. If you want to see what banks and analysts have published, with who said it and when, the silver price forecast page lists them and makes no call of its own.
What this can't tell you
What this can't tell you: what silver will do next, or whether a past year resembles a future one. A chart records prices, not reasons, and long-range charts hide short swings. To see how buying works and what dealers add to the spot price, see where to buy silver.
Frequently asked questions
How far back does the silver price history here go?
The chart's all-time range starts in 2000 and uses month-end closes. The year table covers the last ten years. Shorter ranges use weekly or daily closes. Check the range tab to see which resolution applies before you read a high or low from the line.
What was the record price for silver?
In our series the record close was $115.08 on January 26, 2026. The Silver Institute reports that spot traded above $121 on 2026-01-29. The two differ because one is a daily close from a futures series and the other is a spot reading.
Why does the year table's high differ from other sites?
Our yearly highs and lows come from our own price series, which may not match the highest or lowest intraday print another site records. A different data source or resolution can give a different figure for the same year. Neither is wrong; they measure different things.
Does this history show where silver is going?
No. It records where silver has been. Moves of 63.3% up and 25.6% down have both happened inside 21-day windows, so past ranges are a caution about size, not a map of direction.
Keep going
Return to today's silver spot price for the live number, and use the pages below to see the same history through other lenses.
Sources and further reading
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Data sources: Spot price via api.gold-api.com · COMEX futures (SI=F) via Yahoo Finance. Prices are for informational purposes only and may be delayed. Figures on this page were generated . Silver is quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.