Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
AVAX's grid is dominated by one stretch: the late-2021 run when the alt-L1 narrative made Avalanche one of the market's leaders, stacking consecutive months of saturated green. Most of what follows is the long unwind — 2022's red rows — and the shorter, sharper cycles of the years since, including the memecoin-driven revival on its own chain.
With its history starting from a September 2020 listing, AVAX sits between SOL's compressed extremes and the majors' steadier calendars. The loss/gain bars on the Yearly tab tell its story fastest: a couple of outlier years in each direction, with the log scale keeping both visible on one axis.
Avalanche is down 18.4% in October 2026 so far, measured from the last daily close of the previous month to the daily close of 25 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.
Avalanche returned +51.2% 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 +21.5%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
Avalanche is down 27.5% 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 25 October 2026 close, not the sum of the monthly cells. For comparison, 2025 closed at −65.5%.
Avalanche returned −65.5% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was September at +28.4%, its worst was October at −39.4%, and 4 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, Avalanche's strongest was September at +51.2% and its weakest was June at −27.2%. 3 of the 9 closed positive. October is still in progress and is not counted until it closes.
Across 6 completed Octobers on record (2020–2025), the median October return for Avalanche is −6.5%. The best October was 2023 at +22.5%, the worst was 2025 at −39.4%, and 2 of 6 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
Avalanche is down 18.4% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +67.4%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 73 completed months on record, November has been Avalanche's strongest calendar month at +40.5% and June its weakest at −22.9%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
The alt-L1 boom of late 2021 — several consecutive months near the top of the color scale — followed by the 2022 unwind. Together they account for much of the spread in AVAX's yearly totals.
It appears as a YTD row: months that have closed are final, the in-progress month is italic, and the year's total on the Yearly tab compounds only what has closed so far. Year medians exclude the unfinished year.
Futures — daily closes of the AVAX USDT perpetual Coinfuty tracks. For monthly horizons perp and spot closes track each other closely, with any basis difference far smaller than a typical monthly move.