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 21 February 2020, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 23 September 2019
Silver closed at $18.52 per troy ounce on 21 February 2020, up $0.212 (1.16%) from the previous close of $18.31.
This close extended a run of 6 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 61.88% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $15.79, making this a +17.29% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $18.52 per troy ounce on 21 February 2020. That is $0.21 higher than the previous close of $18.31, a move of 1.16%.
The silver price rose on 21 February 2020, gaining $0.21 (1.16%) against the previous session's close of $18.31.
At $18.52 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.60 on 21 February 2020. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 88.8 on 21 February 2020, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 88.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 21 February 2020, silver was around $17.72 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.52 is a gain of 4.5% over the week.
A year before 21 February 2020, silver was around $15.79 per troy ounce. The close of $18.52 therefore represents a rise of 17.3% over twelve months.
This close was session 6 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 61.88% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 5 months earlier — 104 trading sessions before this one.