Each cell is the actual daily return on that Oct date in that year — one row per year, one column per calendar day.
This page cuts Solana (SOL)'s daily history two ways — average return by weekday for each year, and the actual daily return on every calendar date once a single month is picked. SOL is one of the highest-beta large caps, and it shows at the daily grain: single days that would be headline moves for Bitcoin are routine here. That makes the weekday averages jumpier than the majors' — one violent week can tilt a whole year's Monday column.
Each figure is a UTC daily close against the previous close, in USD; days after a data gap are excluded rather than smeared into the next day. SOL's data starts at its perpetual listing in September 2020. Few years of data pack in several full cycles — the 2021 vertical rally, the 2022 collapse around FTX, and the recovery that unwound much of it.
Solana's latest daily return is +0.58% for 10 October 2026, the daily close against the previous day's close on UTC boundaries. So far in October 2026, 5 of 10 trading days closed higher; the biggest up day was the 4th at +1.67% and the biggest down day was the 8th at −5.74%.
Across all years on record, Monday has the highest median average daily return for Solana at +0.80% per day, while Tuesday is the weakest at −0.03%. In 2026 so far, Monday leads at +1.02% per day and Tuesday trails at −0.80%. Each cell is the mean of that weekday's daily returns within a year, so the numbers are small per day but add up over time.
Solana's median average daily return is +0.28% on Saturdays and +0.44% on Sundays, against an average of +0.49% per day across Monday to Friday. Crypto futures trade 24/7, so weekend candles are real trading days, not gaps.
By median average daily return across all years, the 8th of the month has been Solana's strongest calendar day at +1.71% and the 3rd its weakest at −1.42%. 17 of the 31 calendar days carry a positive median. Day-of-month effects are noisy, so read them as texture rather than a rule.
Substantially more than Bitcoin's — daily moves that saturate the color scale are far more common for SOL, in both directions. The averages in the weekday view smooth this, so hover individual cells in the day-of-month view for the raw days.
SOL's history here begins at its first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in September 2020; every weekday and day-of-month figure is computed from that point forward — earlier spot-era history is not included.
Each day's UTC close divided by the previous day's UTC close, minus one, in USD. Days that follow a gap in the data are excluded so a multi-day move is never counted as one day.