What this page shows
The Bitcoin price from August 2017 to today, broken down by month and year, alongside the live price from exchanges right now. The chart is built from monthly closes, so it shows the shape of the move rather than the noise inside a week.
The history in numbers
Across 9 years of observations Bitcoin has ranged from $2,817 (its low, September 2017) to $126,200 (its high, October 2025). It currently sits 30× above that low.
The best full year was 2020 at +302%; the worst was 2018 at −73.0%. Of 8 complete years, 5 closed higher and 3 closed lower.
The current year stands at −4.1% so far, ranging from $57,800 to $97,925.
Historical patterns
Of 108 closed months, 57 finished higher and 51 finished lower — 53% of months up. The average month returned +4.6%.
The strongest month on record was May 2019 at +60.8%; the weakest was June 2022 at −37.3%.
The deepest drawdown on monthly closes was −75.0%: from the peak in December 2017 to the trough in January 2019, 13 months of decline.
14 months have passed since the all-time-high month on a closing basis.
Month-of-year seasonality
The strongest month on average has been October at +18.1% across 9 observations, 7 of them positive. The weakest has been June at −5.3% across 9 observations, 3 positive.
We print the observation count beside every percentage on purpose. 9 observations is 9 observations, and on a sample that size a pattern cannot be told apart from a coincidence. Interesting to look at; not something to build a plan on.
