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 2021, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 31 August 2020
Silver closed at $27.57 per troy ounce on 5 January 2021, up $0.287 (1.05%) from the previous close of $27.28.
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 43.25% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $18.07, making this a +52.60% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $27.57 per troy ounce on 5 January 2021. That is $0.29 higher than the previous close of $27.28, a move of 1.05%.
The silver price rose on 5 January 2021, gaining $0.29 (1.05%) against the previous session's close of $27.28.
At $27.57 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.89 on 5 January 2021. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 70.8 on 5 January 2021, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 70.8 ounces of silver.
A week before 5 January 2021, silver was around $26.14 per troy ounce, so the close of $27.57 is a gain of 5.5% over the week.
A month before 5 January 2021, silver was around $24.20 per troy ounce, so the close of $27.57 is a gain of 13.9% over the month.
A year before 5 January 2021, silver was around $18.07 per troy ounce. The close of $27.57 therefore represents a rise of 52.6% 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 43.25% 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 — 88 trading sessions before this one.