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 18 January 2013, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 17 December 2012
Silver closed at $31.90 per troy ounce on 18 January 2013, up $0.116 (0.36%) from the previous close of $31.79.
This close extended a run of 5 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 34.34% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
One of the ten highest silver closes of that year, ranking 4 of 248 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $30.51, making this a +4.55% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $31.90 per troy ounce on 18 January 2013. That is $0.12 higher than the previous close of $31.79, a move of 0.36%.
The silver price rose on 18 January 2013, gaining $0.12 (0.36%) against the previous session's close of $31.79.
At $31.90 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $1.03 on 18 January 2013. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 52.9 on 18 January 2013, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 52.9 ounces of silver.
A week before 18 January 2013, silver was around $30.37 per troy ounce, so the close of $31.90 is a gain of 5.1% over the week.
This close was session 5 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 34.34% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.