Highest so far that month
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 5 March 2020, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $17.34 per troy ounce on 5 March 2020, up $0.155 (0.90%) from the previous close of $17.19.
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.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 64.31% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $15.02, making this a +15.46% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $17.34 per troy ounce on 5 March 2020. That is $0.15 higher than the previous close of $17.19, a move of 0.90%.
The silver price rose on 5 March 2020, gaining $0.15 (0.90%) against the previous session's close of $17.19.
At $17.34 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.56 on 5 March 2020. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 96.1 on 5 March 2020, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 96.1 ounces of silver.
A year before 5 March 2020, silver was around $15.02 per troy ounce. The close of $17.34 therefore represents a rise of 15.5% 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 64.31% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.