Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
BNB trades unlike most alts its size. Backed by exchange cash flows and periodic burns, it tends to fall less in bad months and lag the wildest rallies — a profile the heat grid renders as noticeably fewer saturated cells in either direction than SOL or DOGE. Its 2021 breakout row is the big exception, when BNB repriced from an exchange token to a smart-chain asset in a single quarter.
The steadiness shows up in the medians: BNB's typical month and year sit closer to Bitcoin's profile than to the high-beta alt cohort. The Quarterly tab is a good default lens here — quarter cells capture BNB's slow trends better than individual months, which often round to small numbers.
BNB is down 2.4% 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.
BNB returned +11.3% 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 +0.6%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
BNB is down 13.1% 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 +23.2%.
BNB returned +23.2% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was July at +19.3%, its worst was November at −19.6%, and 6 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, BNB's strongest was August at +17.8% and its weakest was June at −23.1%. 5 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 BNB is +5.4%. The best October was 2021 at +35.6%, the worst was 2018 at −6.5%, and 7 of 9 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
BNB is down 2.4% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +40.8%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 111 completed months on record, December has been BNB's strongest calendar month at +7.4% and June its weakest at −9.8%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
BNB's price is anchored by exchange utility and scheduled burns, which historically damped both its drawdowns and its manias. The shared color scale makes this directly visible — fewer deep-red and deep-green cells than comparable large caps.
Early 2021, when the Binance Smart Chain boom repriced BNB within weeks — those months are the most saturated cells in its grid. Hover them for exact figures.
It refreshes with every daily close. The current month and year stay italic as year-to-date values until their final close, and the UPDATED stamp below the grid shows the last close included.