Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
Litecoin is one of the oldest assets in crypto, and its modern grid reads like a fading echo of Bitcoin's: directionally similar columns at lower amplitude, with each cycle's rally rows less saturated than the last as capital concentrated into BTC. Its most distinctive months historically clustered around its own halvings and the anticipation runs that preceded them.
LTC's value on this page is partly as a control asset: when a calendar month is green across BTC, ETH and LTC alike, the move was market-wide; when LTC sat out a rally that lit up the high-beta grids, that rally was narrative-specific. The coin selector makes that cross-check quick.
Litecoin is down 18.4% in October 2026 so far, measured from the last daily close of the previous month to the daily close of 31 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.
Litecoin returned +38.4% 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 −1.6%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
Litecoin is down 28.5% 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 31 October 2026 close, not the sum of the monthly cells. For comparison, 2025 closed at −25.5%.
Litecoin returned −25.5% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was January at +24.2%, its worst was March at −35.1%, and 5 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, Litecoin's strongest was September at +38.4% and its weakest was January at −22.6%. 4 of the 9 closed positive. October is still in progress and is not counted until it closes.
Across 13 completed Octobers on record (2013–2025), the median October return for Litecoin is +3.6%. The best October was 2015 at +26.4%, the worst was 2018 at −19.1%, and 10 of 13 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
Litecoin is down 18.4% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +60.6%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 162 completed months on record, October has been Litecoin's strongest calendar month at +3.6% and June its weakest at −9.6%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
Historically LTC tended to rally in the months ahead of its halvings and fade after — an anticipation pattern visible as green clusters before the halving months in its grid. Like all seasonality, it weakened once widely known.
Lower beta. Litecoin's monthly moves have compressed cycle over cycle as it matured and lost narrative share, so on the shared color scale its cells saturate less than newer, more speculative alts.
To Litecoin's first daily perpetual candle on Binance in early 2020. Earlier spot-era history is not included — every page in this tool is built from the same perpetual-futures daily closes.