Bitcoin (BTC) Price History
Bitcoin price chart
Bitcoin by year
History since 2017. Annual figures, free for every year.
Export to Excel/CSV (Pro)| Year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (YTD) |
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| Open | $1,555.10 | $13,375.60 | $3,658.60 | $7,157.60 | $29,222.50 | $46,974.00 | $16,633.60 | $43,712.40 | $94,097.30 | $87,907.90 |
| Close | $14,308.10 | $3,612.00 | $7,100.50 | $28,967.50 | $47,429.40 | $16,530.20 | $42,447.60 | $95,565.40 | $88,408.80 | $76,086.66 |
| Average | $5,485.82 | $7,423.61 | $7,287.03 | $11,257.37 | $47,296.53 | $28,185.70 | $28,885.20 | $65,933.33 | $101,586.28 | $74,115.56 |
| High | $19,510.20 | $16,880.20 | $13,797.00 | $29,275.10 | $68,932.70 | $48,229.20 | $44,675.50 | $108,301.30 | $126,262.60 | $97,925.70 |
| Low | $1,544.20 | $3,076.50 | $3,277.60 | $3,850.60 | $27,909.60 | $15,440.10 | $16,570.90 | $38,480.20 | $74,409.40 | $57,719.40 |
| Change | — | -74.8% | +96.6% | +308.0% | +63.7% | -65.1% | +156.8% | +125.1% | -7.5% | -13.9% |
Bitcoin monthly average
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Bitcoin daily prices
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Bitcoin vs gold vs S&P 500 by year
| Return | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
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| Bitcoin | +63.7% | -65.1% | +156.8% | +125.1% | -7.5% | -13.9% |
| Gold | -3.6% | -0.3% | +13.1% | +27.2% | +64.6% | -5.4% |
| S&P 500 (SPY) | +27.0% | -19.4% | +24.0% | +23.4% | +16.4% | +7.5% |
The S&P 500 row is the price return of the SPY fund, a proxy for the index. See every asset by year.
62 S&P 500 companies mention crypto in the risk factors of their 2025 annual report.
Data since May 2017. The price of one bitcoin in US dollars. Latest data as of 2026-11-05. Before 2021 the source's closes are weekday quotes and can differ from exchange prices by up to a few percent; from 2021 they match within about 1 to 2 percent. 203 days between the first and the last day are missing from the source and are not filled in; the yearly figures use the days that exist.
Source: aggregated market prices, closing price of each UTC day (end of day, 00:00 UTC). Crypto trades every day, so weekends are included. Prices can differ slightly between exchanges. The average is the mean of the daily prices, and the change compares one period’s close with the previous period’s close.
Related: Ethereum, Litecoin, TRON, Bitcoin Cash.