Compounded price return for every calendar month on record. Read down a column for seasonality, across a row for the year's rhythm.
XRP's grid is a study in dormancy and detonation. Long stretches of its history are rows of pale cells — months of near-zero drift while the market waited out the SEC lawsuit years — punctuated by a handful of columns where the color scale maxes out, most famously the explosive move in late 2024. Few large caps concentrate this much of their total return into this few months.
That distribution matters for how you read the medians: XRP's median month is modest precisely because most months were quiet, while the yearly totals swing on whether a given year contained one of the detonations. The Best/Worst marks on the toolbar are a quick way to find exactly which months carried each year.
XRP is down 5.7% 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.
XRP returned +8.0% 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 +1.7%, so last month came in above its historical norm.
XRP is down 23.7% 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 −11.6%.
XRP returned −11.6% over calendar 2025, compounding its monthly returns from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was January at +45.6%, its worst was February at −29.3%, and 5 of 12 months closed positive.
Among the 9 completed months of 2026, XRP's strongest was August at +30.0% and its weakest was June at −22.0%. 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 XRP is −3.2%. The best October was 2021 at +16.8%, the worst was 2013 at −44.5%, and 5 of 13 closed positive. The current October is excluded until it closes.
XRP is down 5.7% quarter-to-date in Q4 2026, compounding October so far. The previous quarter, Q3 2026, closed at +43.3%. Quarterly figures multiply the monthly returns together, so they match a position held through the whole quarter.
By median return across 158 completed months on record, July has been XRP's strongest calendar month at +14.0% and January its weakest at −10.6%. Medians shift as each new year is added, so treat this as a description of the past, not a forecast.
Because they were. For long stretches — notably during the SEC lawsuit years — XRP drifted with low volatility while the rest of the market trended. The pale cells are honest output of the shared color scale, not missing data.
From XRP's first daily perpetual candle on Binance in early 2020 through the latest completed close, with the current month shown italic as year-to-date until it finishes.
Toggle them to ring each year's single strongest and weakest month while dimming the rest. On XRP they make the concentration obvious — a large share of its lifetime return sits in a handful of ringed cells.