Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
Cardano's grid captures a full arc: the ferocious run into its September 2021 peak, and the long, grinding descent that followed — one of the most persistent bleed patterns among large caps. Reading ADA's rows top to bottom, the eye catches how the character of the market changed: early years dense with saturated green columns, later years dominated by shallow reds that compound quietly into deeply negative yearly totals.
That makes ADA a useful illustration of compounding's asymmetry, which the Yearly tab lays bare: a row of mild-looking −5% to −15% months stacks into a year that needs a triple-digit rally to reclaim. The up-month counter on each yearly row (how many of twelve months closed green) is the quickest summary of that grind.
Cardano is up 2.5% in October 2026 so far, measured from the last daily close of the previous month to the daily close of 10 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.
Cardano returned +24.7% 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 −2.5%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
Cardano is down 24.2% 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 10 October 2026 close, not the sum of the monthly cells. For comparison, 2025 closed at −60.6%.
Cardano returned −60.6% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was July at +29.1%, its worst was February at −32.9%, and 6 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, Cardano's strongest was September at +24.7% and its weakest was June at −38.8%. 4 of the 9 closed positive. October is still in progress and is not counted until it closes.
Across 9 completed Octobers on record (2017–2025), the median October return for Cardano is −7.0%. The best October was 2017 at +40.4%, the worst was 2025 at −24.6%, and 3 of 9 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
Cardano is up 2.5% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +71.0%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 108 completed months on record, July has been Cardano's strongest calendar month at +7.0% and June its weakest at −23.4%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
Compounding. A sequence of moderate negative months multiplies into a large annual loss even without any single crash month. The loss/gain bars and totals on the Yearly tab make that arithmetic visible.
At ADA's first daily perpetual-futures candle on Binance in early 2020. All medians and aggregates are computed from that starting point.
Yes — switch coins with the selector above the grid, or open the dedicated pages for BTC, ETH, SOL and others. Every page uses the same formulas and color scales, so columns are directly comparable across coins.