Bitcoin Price History and Yearly Returns
Bitcoin's price since 2010, the all-time high and how far below it we are now, plus each year with opening and closing price, high and low, and a returns triangle for every combination of buy and sell year. Computed from our own price database (daily from July 2010, 5-minute since 2012). Click a year for the details.
One square per calendar year, filled = close above the open, empty = below, dashed = current year. In the currency selected above, 2010 from 18 July.
Price history since 2010
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Daily closing prices, thinned out. First data point: July 18, 2010, $0.086. The all-time high is the highest price at 5-minute resolution, so it can sit above the line of daily closes.
Year by year
| Year | Return | Open | Close | High | Low | Max. drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | -6.4 % | $93,436 | $87,490 | $126,158 Oct 6 | $74,642 Apr 7 | -35.7 % |
| 2024 | +121.1 % | $42,283 | $93,469 | $108,077 Dec 17 | $38,526 Jan 23 | -32.6 % |
| 2023 | +155.5 % | $16,529 | $42,232 | $44,670 Dec 8 | $16,500 Jan 1 | -22.0 % |
| 2022 | -64.3 % | $46,278 | $16,529 | $48,157 Mar 28 | $15,500 Nov 21 | -67.8 % |
| 2021 | +59.0 % | $29,083 | $46,249 | $69,000 Nov 10 | $28,094 Jan 4 | -55.1 % |
| 2020 | +305.5 % | $7,161 | $29,040 | $29,254 Dec 31 | $3,890 Mar 13 | -62.9 % |
| 2019 | +94.3 % | $3,691 | $7,170 | $13,845 Jun 26 | $3,336 Feb 6 | -53.5 % |
| 2018 | -73.5 % | $13,890 | $3,687 | $17,192 Jan 6 | $3,124 Dec 15 | -81.8 % |
| 2017 | +1,334.2 % | $966 | $13,860 | $19,664 Dec 17 | $753 Jan 12 | -42.6 % |
| 2016 | +124.2 % | $431 | $966 | $981 Dec 29 | $352 Jan 16 | -40.0 % |
| 2015 | +34.2 % | $321 | $431 | $500 Nov 4 | $165 Jan 14 | -48.6 % |
| 2014 | -56.1 % | $732 | $321 | $993 Jan 6 | $278 Oct 5 | -72.0 % |
| 2013 | +5,428.2 % | $13.24 | $732 | $1,163 Nov 30 | $12.77 Jan 1 | -80.6 % |
| 2012 | +189.1 % | $4.58 | $13.24 | $16.00 Aug 17 | $3.80 Jan 31 | -52.3 % |
| 2011 | +1,471.4 % | $0.30 | $4.71 | $29.03 Jun 8 | $0.30 Jan 3 | -92.7 % |
| 2010 | +249.5 % | $0.086 | $0.30 | $0.40 Nov 6 | $0.051 Jul 25 | -50.1 % |
Return in the currency selected above. Max. drawdown = the deepest fall from the year's running high to a later low within the same year.
Returns triangle: return per year
The row is the buy year (bought at the year's first price), the column the sell year (sold at the year's last price). Each cell shows the average return per year over the whole holding period (annualized); the diagonal is the return of that single year.
| Buy ↓ Sell → in % | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | +1,471 | +564 | +1,246 | +472 | +328 | +284 | +364 | +224 | +207 | +215 | +196 | +148 | +149 | +147 | +131 |
| 2012 | +189 | +1,164 | +312 | +211 | +192 | +280 | +160 | +151 | +165 | +151 | +111 | +114 | +115 | +102 | |
| 2013 | +5,428 | +392 | +219 | +192 | +302 | +156 | +146 | +162 | +148 | +104 | +108 | +109 | +97 | ||
| 2014 | -56 | -23 | +10 | +109 | +38 | +46 | +69 | +68 | +41 | +50 | +55 | +49 | |||
| 2015 | +34 | +73 | +251 | +84 | +86 | +112 | +103 | +64 | +72 | +76 | +66 | ||||
| 2016 | +124 | +467 | +105 | +102 | +132 | +118 | +68 | +77 | +82 | +70 | |||||
| 2017 | +1,334 | +95 | +95 | +134 | +117 | +61 | +72 | +77 | +65 | ||||||
| 2018 | -73 | -28 | +28 | +35 | +4 | +20 | +31 | +26 | |||||||
| 2019 | +94 | +181 | +132 | +45 | +63 | +71 | +57 | ||||||||
| 2020 | +306 | +154 | +32 | +56 | +67 | +52 | |||||||||
| 2021 | +59 | -25 | +13 | +34 | +25 | ||||||||||
| 2022 | -64 | -4 | +26 | +17 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | +156 | +138 | +74 | ||||||||||||
| 2024 | +121 | +44 | |||||||||||||
| 2025 | -6 |
Green = gain, red = loss, stronger = larger amount. Example: cell 2011 / 2025 is the yearly return for buying at the start of 2011 and selling at the end of 2025. 2010 is not a buy year because our daily data starts on 18 July 2010.
Frequently asked questions
01What was the Bitcoin all-time high (ATH)?
The all-time high was about $126,158 (October 6, 2025). Bitcoin currently trades at $83,767, which is -33.6 % from the ATH.
02What were the best and worst Bitcoin years?
The best year was 2013 at +5,428.2 %, the weakest 2018 at -73.5 % (in US dollars, year open to year close).
03What was Bitcoin's average return per year?
In US dollars, Bitcoin returned an average of +131.4 % per year (annualized) from the start of 2011 to the end of 2025. Over the last ten years (2016 to 2025) it was +70.1 % per year, over the last five years (2021 to 2025) +24.6 % per year. Past returns do not guarantee future results.
04In which years did Bitcoin lose value?
In US dollars, Bitcoin closed 4 of 16 years since 2010 with a loss: 2014, 2018, 2022, 2025.
05How far back does the price data go?
Our price database goes back to July 2010 (daily), and to 2012 at 5-minute resolution. USD prices are the historically traded prices; EUR values are converted from them at each day's ECB reference rate.