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 24 January 2018, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 15 September 2017
Silver closed at $17.42 per troy ounce on 24 January 2018, up $0.570 (3.38%) from the previous close of $16.85.
Notable session: moved more than 3% in a session.
This was a 3.38% move in one session — well beyond a typical day for silver. Moves this size are usually a reaction to something specific rather than ordinary drift, so the surrounding news is worth checking alongside the number.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 64.13% 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 2 of 250 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $17.15, making this a +1.61% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $17.42 per troy ounce on 24 January 2018. That is $0.57 higher than the previous close of $16.85, a move of 3.38%.
The silver price rose on 24 January 2018, gaining $0.57 (3.38%) against the previous session's close of $16.85.
At $17.42 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.56 on 24 January 2018. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 77.8 on 24 January 2018, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 77.8 ounces of silver.
A month before 24 January 2018, silver was around $16.36 per troy ounce, so the close of $17.42 is a gain of 6.5% over the month.
It closed 64.13% 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 — 90 trading sessions before this one.