Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
SOL is one of the highest-beta large caps in crypto, and its returns grid shows it: the color scale that comfortably contains Bitcoin's months gets pushed to its edges here. Solana's recorded history begins with its perpetual listing in September 2020 and packs several full cycles into few years — the 2021 vertical rally, the brutal 2022 collapse around the FTX failure, and the 2023–2024 recovery that unwound much of it.
That compressed history makes the Median row especially worth reading with care: with fewer complete years than BTC or ETH, a single extreme year still moves SOL's monthly medians noticeably. The Quarterly tab smooths some of that noise and is often the more honest lens for a market this volatile.
Solana is down 6.5% 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.
Solana returned +14.6% 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 +8.3%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
Solana is down 11.4% 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 10 October 2026 close, not the sum of the monthly cells. For comparison, 2025 closed at −34.2%.
Solana returned −34.2% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was January at +22.4%, its worst was February at −36.1%, and 6 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, Solana's strongest was August at +41.4% and its weakest was February at −20.1%. 2 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 Solana is +4.3%. The best October was 2023 at +79.7%, the worst was 2020 at −46.7%, and 3 of 6 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
Solana is down 6.5% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +60.3%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 78 completed months on record, July has been Solana's strongest calendar month at +17.1% and December its weakest at −19.5%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
Substantially more. SOL's monthly cells regularly reach magnitudes that are rare for Bitcoin, in both directions — the same heat scale simply saturates more often. The Yearly tab shows how those swings compound over each year.
September 2020, the month Solana's USDT perpetual began trading on Binance. Everything on the page — monthly cells, medians, weekly and daily views — is computed from that point forward.
Yes — 2022 shows as a row dominated by red cells, with the deepest ones late in the year around the FTX collapse. It is a good example of why the yearly view pairs each year's total with its month-by-month texture.