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 28 February 2017, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 10 November 2016
Silver closed at $18.42 per troy ounce on 28 February 2017, up $0.066 (0.36%) from the previous close of $18.35.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 4 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 62.09% 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 3 of 249 sessions.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $14.69, making this a +25.40% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $18.42 per troy ounce on 28 February 2017. That is $0.07 higher than the previous close of $18.35, a move of 0.36%.
The silver price rose on 28 February 2017, gaining $0.07 (0.36%) against the previous session's close of $18.35.
At $18.42 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.59 on 28 February 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 68.0 on 28 February 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 68.0 ounces of silver.
A week before 28 February 2017, silver was around $17.99 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.42 is a gain of 2.4% over the week.
A month before 28 February 2017, silver was around $17.10 per troy ounce, so the close of $18.42 is a gain of 7.7% over the month.
A year before 28 February 2017, silver was around $14.69 per troy ounce. The close of $18.42 therefore represents a rise of 25.4% over twelve months.
This close was session 4 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 62.09% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.
The most recent higher close was about 3 months earlier — 71 trading sessions before this one.