Ether, the native asset of the Ethereum network, is one of the most traded crypto assets in the world, and it is also one of the most volatile. This page is a reference rather than a daily opinion piece. It collects ETH/USD price history from the same market-data feed that powers the Finbexo ticker and turns it into numbers you can check: monthly opens, highs, lows and closes, realised volatility, and the distance from widely watched reference levels. The calculations refresh twice a day, and every figure carries a date.

We do not forecast prices here. Instead, the aim is to give you the context that most daily "ETH price analysis" articles skip: how large a normal month is for ether, how often big moves happen, and how to read moving averages and prior highs and lows without treating them as magic lines.

ETH price snapshot (as of 28 Oct 2026)

  • Last daily close: $2,364 (28 Oct 2026, UTC)
  • Change this year: -20.3% versus last year’s final close
  • 52-week range: $1,507 to $4,174
  • Record high in our data: $4,954 on 24 Aug 2025, so ETH trades 52.3% below it
  • 50-day / 200-day average: $2,534 / $2,159
  • Realised volatility (annualised): 34% over 30 days, 52% over 90 days

In plain terms, ETH is below its 50-day average and above its 200-day average, and it sits about 32% of the way up its 52-week range. Recent volatility is below ether’s long-run norm of about 85% a year. So far in Oct 2026, ETH has moved -11.9% from the previous month-end close, trading between $2,281 and $2,774.

ETH price by month: the last 24 months

The table shows each calendar month in UTC. “Change” is the move from the previous month’s closing price to this month’s close, “range” is how far the high was above the low, and “volatility” is the annualised standard deviation of daily returns within the month. A month marked “to date” is still in progress.

MonthOpenHighLowCloseChangeRangeVolatility
Oct 2026 (to date) $2,684 $2,774 $2,281 $2,364 -11.9% 22% 36%
Sep 2026 $2,467 $2,805 $2,356 $2,684 +8.8% 19% 44%
Aug 2026 $1,860 $2,564 $1,821 $2,467 +32.6% 41% 68%
Jul 2026 $1,570 $1,976 $1,551 $1,860 +18.5% 27% 45%
Jun 2026 $2,004 $2,018 $1,507 $1,570 -21.7% 34% 66%
May 2026 $2,256 $2,423 $1,966 $2,004 -11.2% 23% 28%
Apr 2026 $2,105 $2,465 $2,017 $2,256 +7.2% 22% 53%
Mar 2026 $1,965 $2,384 $1,909 $2,105 +7.1% 25% 64%
Feb 2026 $2,445 $2,473 $1,749 $1,965 -19.6% 41% 102%
Jan 2026 $2,967 $3,398 $2,249 $2,445 -17.6% 51% 69%
Dec 2025 $2,992 $3,447 $2,720 $2,967 -0.8% 27% 55%
Nov 2025 $3,847 $3,915 $2,627 $2,992 -22.2% 49% 70%
Oct 2025 $4,146 $4,755 $3,460 $3,847 -7.2% 37% 75%
Sep 2025 $4,390 $4,763 $3,829 $4,146 -5.6% 24% 50%
Aug 2025 $3,696 $4,954 $3,358 $4,390 +18.8% 48% 89%
Jul 2025 $2,486 $3,941 $2,378 $3,697 +48.7% 66% 54%
Jun 2025 $2,529 $2,878 $2,117 $2,486 -1.7% 36% 64%
May 2025 $1,794 $2,785 $1,753 $2,529 +41.0% 59% 90%
Apr 2025 $1,824 $1,951 $1,387 $1,794 -1.6% 41% 93%
Mar 2025 $2,238 $2,549 $1,761 $1,823 -18.5% 45% 97%
Feb 2025 $3,299 $3,330 $2,076 $2,238 -32.1% 60% 71%
Jan 2025 $3,332 $3,744 $2,921 $3,298 -1.0% 28% 65%
Dec 2024 $3,707 $4,107 $3,098 $3,333 -10.1% 33% 64%
Nov 2024 $2,516 $3,740 $2,360 $3,706 +47.3% 59% 79%

Across the 23 complete months from Nov 2024 to Sep 2026, ETH closed higher in 9 and lower in 14. The strongest month in that window was Jul 2025 (+48.7%), the weakest was Feb 2025 (-32.1%), and the widest trading range came in Jul 2025, when the monthly high was 66% above the low. Ranges of that size inside a single month mean that short-term price levels quoted in news headlines can be reached and reversed quickly.

What the long-run monthly record shows

Our daily ETH/USD history starts on 9 Nov 2017. Since then there have been 106 complete months with a prior month to compare against. ETH finished higher in 55 of them, close to a coin toss. The median month gained +1.4%, which tells you very little on its own because the spread around it is so wide: half of all months moved by 17.2% or more in one direction or the other, and 40 months moved by 20% or more.

The extremes show why position sizing matters more than direction calls. The best month in the record was Jan 2021, when ETH rose +78.2%. The worst was Mar 2018, when it fell -53.6% in a single month. An investor who holds ether therefore needs to be comfortable with month-to-month swings that would be considered a crisis in a broad stock index.

Two practical lessons follow. First, a single month’s performance says almost nothing about the next month: the distribution is wide and roughly balanced between gains and losses. Second, because big moves are common, it helps to decide in advance how much of a portfolio can sit in an asset that can halve or double. That decision is about your own circumstances, not about where the price will go next.

Is there an ETH seasonality?

Many articles claim that certain months are “good” or “bad” for crypto. The table below shows what our data says for each calendar month: how many years we can observe, how many of those years were up, and the median change.

MonthYears observedYears upMedian change
January95+0.0%
February96+7.7%
March96+7.1%
April96+7.2%
May94-0.1%
June92-8.7%
July95+11.5%
August94-7.6%
September94-5.6%
October85+4.8%
November84-4.5%
December94-0.8%

On these numbers, July has the highest median change (+11.5%) and June the lowest (-8.7%). Treat both with caution. With fewer than ten observations per month, one exceptional year can move a median a long way, and the market regimes behind those years were very different, from the 2018 bear market to the arrival of exchange-traded products. Seasonality is useful as a description of the past, but it is not reliable enough to trade on.

How volatile is ETH?

Realised volatility measures how much the price has actually moved. We calculate it as the standard deviation of daily log returns, annualised by multiplying by the square root of 365 because crypto trades every day. A reading of 34% (the latest 30-day figure) means that, if recent behaviour continued, a typical one-day move would be roughly 1.8%, and a typical one-month move roughly 10%. Volatility is not constant: the 90-day figure is 52% and the average since 2017 is 85%.

Low volatility does not mean low risk. Quiet periods in ether have often ended with sharp moves, which is why the monthly volatility column above can jump from one month to the next. If you use leverage, including CFDs or perpetual futures, these figures matter even more, because a typical monthly move can exceed the margin on a highly leveraged position. Our guide to managing market volatility covers position sizing and other practical habits in more detail.

How to read key ETH price levels

Traders watch a handful of reference points. None of them predicts the price, but they help describe where the market is relative to its recent history:

  • The 200-day moving average (now $2,159) is the average close of the last 200 days. Many market participants use it as a simple trend filter: a price above it is usually described as a longer-term uptrend, and a price below it as a downtrend. ETH is currently above it.
  • The 50-day moving average (now $2,534) describes the medium-term trend. ETH is currently below it. When the 50-day crosses the 200-day, commentators call it a “golden cross” (upward) or “death cross” (downward). These signals arrive late by design.
  • Prior monthly highs and lows from the table above are natural reference points because many orders cluster around them. The most recent complete month, Sep 2026, traded between $2,356 and $2,805.
  • The 52-week range ($1,507 to $4,174) frames where the price sits in the past year’s distribution.
  • The record high of $4,954 remains the level many holders measure recovery against.

A sensible way to use these levels is to treat them as context for risk decisions, such as where an idea would be proven wrong. They are not targets. A level is only “support” or “resistance” until it breaks, and ETH breaks levels often.

What moves the ETH price

Ether’s price responds to a mix of crypto-specific and broader forces. The most important ones to follow are:

  • Risk appetite and interest rates. Ether has tended to trade as a high-risk asset. When investors cut risk across markets, for example when interest-rate expectations rise or equities sell off, crypto assets usually fall too.
  • The wider crypto market. Bitcoin remains the reference asset for the sector, and large moves in bitcoin usually spill over into ether.
  • Network upgrades. Ethereum changes through scheduled protocol upgrades. According to ethereum.org, the Pectra upgrade went live on 7 May 2025, adding features for stakers and allowing regular accounts to execute code like smart contracts. Fusaka followed on 3 December 2025 and focused on scaling the data available to layer-2 networks. Upgrades can shift sentiment, but their effect on price is hard to isolate.
  • Investment products and flows. Exchange-traded products that hold ether connect it to traditional brokerage accounts, so their inflows and outflows are watched as a gauge of institutional demand.
  • Regulation and security events. Enforcement actions, new rules, exchange failures and large hacks have all triggered sharp moves across crypto markets.

When you read a daily ETH analysis, including ours, check which of these drivers it relies on and whether it cites data for it. A headline that mentions a price target without a source or a method is opinion, not analysis.

Methodology and limitations

Prices come from the Yahoo Finance chart API for the ETH-USD pair, the same data provider used by our site ticker. We use daily open, high, low and close values in UTC. Monthly figures group days by calendar month. “Change” compares month-end closes, range compares the month’s highest high with its lowest low, and volatility is the standard deviation of daily log returns multiplied by the square root of 365. Moving averages use daily closes. The cache is rebuilt at most every 12 hours. If the data provider is unavailable, the page keeps showing the last good data, with its date. Crypto prices vary between exchanges and data providers, so small differences from other sources are normal. Past price behaviour does not predict future returns.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Ethereum price today?

ETH/USD closed at $2,364 on 28 Oct 2026 (UTC daily close in our market-data feed). That is -20.3% since the end of last year and 52.3% below the record high. Prices differ slightly between exchanges and data providers.

What is the all-time high for ETH?

In our data the highest intraday price for ETH/USD was $4,954 on 24 Aug 2025.

How volatile is Ethereum?

Over the last 30 days the annualised volatility of daily ETH returns was 34%, and over 90 days it was 52%. The long-run average since 9 Nov 2017 is 85%. Half of all complete months since late 2017 saw ETH move by 17.2% or more from the previous month-end close.

Is there a best month to buy ETH?

Not in a dependable way. Each calendar month has at most 9 years of ETH history, and even the most consistent month rose in only 6 of 9 years. Seasonality tables describe the past. They are not a trading signal.

Is this page an ETH price prediction?

No. The page reports what the price has done and explains how to read common reference levels. It does not forecast prices or recommend buying or selling.

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