Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 20 January 2015, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 18 September 2014
Silver closed at $17.95 per troy ounce on 20 January 2015, up $0.208 (1.17%) from the previous close of $17.74.
This close extended a run of 3 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 63.06% 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 7 of 250 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $20.27, making this a -11.45% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $17.95 per troy ounce on 20 January 2015. That is $0.21 higher than the previous close of $17.74, a move of 1.17%.
The silver price rose on 20 January 2015, gaining $0.21 (1.17%) against the previous session's close of $17.74.
At $17.95 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.58 on 20 January 2015. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 72.1 on 20 January 2015, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 72.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 20 January 2015, silver was around $17.13 per troy ounce, so the close of $17.95 is a gain of 4.8% over the week.
A month before 20 January 2015, silver was around $15.99 per troy ounce, so the close of $17.95 is a gain of 12.2% over the month.
This close was session 3 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 63.06% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 4 months earlier — 83 trading sessions before this one.