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 5 January 2018, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 17 November 2017
Silver closed at $17.20 per troy ounce on 5 January 2018, up $0.016 (0.09%) from the previous close of $17.19.
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 64.59% 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 $16.58, making this a +3.74% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Silver closed at $17.20 per troy ounce on 5 January 2018. That is $0.02 higher than the previous close of $17.19, a move of 0.09%.
The silver price rose on 5 January 2018, gaining $0.02 (0.09%) against the previous session's close of $17.19.
At $17.20 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.55 on 5 January 2018. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 76.7 on 5 January 2018, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 76.7 ounces of silver.
A month before 5 January 2018, silver was around $15.97 per troy ounce, so the close of $17.20 is a gain of 7.7% 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 64.59% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.