Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
This Bitcoin monthly returns chart turns Bitcoin's entire daily price history on Coinfuty into one heat grid of Bitcoin historical returns. The default view is the classic BTC monthly returns table — BTC returns by month, one row per year, one column per calendar month — and the tabs re-cut the same history by weekday, by week, by quarter or by year. Reading down a column shows seasonality; reading across a row shows how each year actually unfolded.
Every figure is computed the same way: the return of a period is its last daily close against the last close of the previous period, in USD, on UTC boundaries. Quarters and years compound their months, so a year's total on the Yearly tab is exactly what a buy-and-hold position would have returned over those months. The Median row under the grid summarizes each column, so the strongest and weakest calendar months on record are always one glance away.
Treat the grid as a map of how Bitcoin has behaved, not a forecast. Monthly seasonality in crypto is real but unstable: a month that led for years can flip once a new regime arrives, and medians move as each new year lands. The current year's cells stay italic until each period closes, so in-progress figures are never mistaken for final ones.
Bitcoin is up 1.2% in October 2026 so far, measured from the last daily close of the previous month to the daily close of 3 October 2026 (UTC). This is a month-to-date figure: it keeps moving with every daily close until October ends, and the cell stays italic in the grid until then.
Bitcoin returned +6.4% in September 2026, its most recent completed calendar month, from that month's last daily close against the close of the month before. The median September return on record is −3.1%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
Bitcoin is down 3.4% year-to-date in 2026, compounding 9 completed months plus October to date. A year-to-date return is what a position bought at the 2025 close would be worth at the 3 October 2026 close, not the sum of the monthly cells. For comparison, 2025 closed at −6.4%.
Bitcoin returned −6.4% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was April at +14.1%, its worst was February at −17.7%, and 6 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, Bitcoin's strongest was August at +25.0% and its weakest was June at −20.4%. 5 of the 9 closed positive. October is still in progress and is not counted until it closes.
Across 16 completed Octobers on record (2010–2025), the median October return for Bitcoin is +13.0%. The best October was 2010 at +210.0%, the worst was 2011 at −34.7%, and 11 of 16 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
Bitcoin is up 1.2% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +42.6%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 195 completed months on record, October has been Bitcoin's strongest calendar month at +13.0% and August its weakest at −6.5%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
The Median row under the monthly grid answers this live: it shows each calendar month's median return across all recorded years, and the strongest month is simply its highest cell. October and November have often led historically, but the ranking shifts as new years are added, so the live grid — not any fixed answer — is the source of truth on this page.
A month's return is its last daily close divided by the previous month's last daily close, minus one, in USD on UTC boundaries. Quarterly and yearly figures compound the monthly returns, and the weekly and weekday views are derived from the same daily closes.
From the first daily futures candle Coinfuty tracks for Bitcoin — September 2019 — through the latest completed daily close. The current month, quarter and year are shown in italics as year-to-date figures until they close.
No. Seasonality describes what happened, not what must happen next. Crypto regimes change quickly — halving cycles, ETF flows and macro conditions have all reshaped which months lead — so use the grid to understand context and risk, not as a trading signal.
The Yearly tab answers this live: every completed year's compounded return is listed, and the readout above the grid shows the median year across all of them. Bitcoin's yearly results are extreme in both directions — triple-digit gains and deep drawdowns — so the median year is a more honest summary than a simple average, and it updates as each new year closes.
Because returns compound. A +10% month followed by a −10% month leaves you at −1%, not 0%. The yearly totals multiply the monthly factors together, which is what a position held through the whole year would actually have earned.