Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 12 January 2022, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 31 December 2021
Silver closed at $23.20 per troy ounce on 12 January 2022, up $0.394 (1.73%) from the previous close of $22.81.
This close extended a run of 4 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 52.25% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $25.38, making this a -8.60% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $23.20 per troy ounce on 12 January 2022. That is $0.39 higher than the previous close of $22.81, a move of 1.73%.
The silver price rose on 12 January 2022, gaining $0.39 (1.73%) against the previous session's close of $22.81.
At $23.20 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.75 on 12 January 2022. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 78.8 on 12 January 2022, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 78.8 ounces of silver.
This close was session 4 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 52.25% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.