The compounded annual return, its month-by-month texture, and the two months that did the most work in each direction.
This page lists Bitcoin's annual returns by year — every year of its history on Coinfuty as a single compounded annual return, next to its month-by-month texture and the two months that did the most work in each direction. It is the coarsest grain of the returns grid, built from the same daily closes as the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly views.
A year's total compounds its twelve monthly returns — each month being its last daily close against the previous month's last close, in USD on UTC boundaries — so the figure is exactly what a buy-and-hold position through the year would have returned. The current year rides as a year-to-date row until it closes.
Bitcoin's yearly results are extreme in both directions — triple-digit gains and deep drawdowns sit a row apart — which is why the readout above the grid quotes the median completed year rather than a simple average. Quoting a single Bitcoin average annual return therefore depends heavily on the start year; the full list here lets you pick the window yourself.
Bitcoin is down 4.3% year-to-date in 2026, compounding 9 completed months plus October to date, through the daily close of 11 October 2026 (UTC). The YTD chip stays provisional until the year closes.
Bitcoin returned −6.4% over calendar 2025, from the 2024 close to the 2025 close. Its best month was April at +14.1% and its worst February at −17.7%.
Bitcoin's completed calendar years on Coinfuty: 2010 +385.2%, 2011 +1,437%, 2012 +193.4%, 2013 +5,473%, 2014 −57.5%, 2015 +34.5%, 2016 +123.8%, 2017 +1,369%, 2018 −73.6%, 2019 +92.1%, 2020 +300.5%, 2021 +60.5%, 2022 −64.2%, 2023 +155.9%, 2024 +121.1%, 2025 −6.4%. 12 of 16 years closed positive, and 2026 is down 4.3% so far.
The median completed year for Bitcoin is +122.5%, across 16 full years on record. The median is used instead of the mean because Bitcoin's yearly results are extreme in both directions, and one outlier year would distort a simple average.
Bitcoin's best completed year on record is 2013 at +5,473% and its worst is 2018 at −73.6%. Both are compounded from monthly returns, so they match what a position held through the entire year would have earned.
By compounding the year's twelve monthly returns, each computed from UTC daily closes in USD. Compounding matches what a position held through the whole year would actually have earned.
The grid answers this live — scan the RETURN column for the highest figure. Early years dominate in percentage terms because Bitcoin compounded from a small base; the month-by-month strip next to each total shows how evenly or unevenly the year was won.
Each row here is one calendar year's own compounded return. An annualized return compresses a multi-year stretch into a single per-year growth rate (a geometric mean), so it sits far below Bitcoin's best years and far above its worst. This page shows the raw year-by-year figures, so either calculation can be checked against them.
Because returns compound. A +10% month followed by a −10% month leaves −1%, not 0%. The yearly totals multiply the monthly factors together, which is what a held position would have earned.