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 27 January 2012, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 16 November 2011
Silver closed at $33.75 per troy ounce on 27 January 2012, up $0.045 (0.13%) from the previous close of $33.70.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
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 30.54% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $27.05, making this a +24.78% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $33.75 per troy ounce on 27 January 2012. That is $0.05 higher than the previous close of $33.70, a move of 0.13%.
The silver price rose on 27 January 2012, gaining $0.05 (0.13%) against the previous session's close of $33.70.
At $33.75 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $1.08 on 27 January 2012. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 51.3 on 27 January 2012, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 51.3 ounces of silver.
A week before 27 January 2012, silver was around $31.65 per troy ounce, so the close of $33.75 is a gain of 6.6% over the week.
A month before 27 January 2012, silver was around $28.70 per troy ounce, so the close of $33.75 is a gain of 17.6% over the month.
A year before 27 January 2012, silver was around $27.05 per troy ounce. The close of $33.75 therefore represents a rise of 24.8% over twelve months.
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 30.54% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.