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Distance from the all-time high

How far bitcoin trades below its highest price to date, every day since 2013.

-30.4% on Sep 21, 2026, against -6.3% a year earlier.

Zero means bitcoin closed at a new record that day; −50% means it was worth half its best price so far. Every cycle has had a deep one — more than 80% in 2015 and 2018, about 77% in 2022 — and every one of them was eventually made back in full.

For a miner, a drawdown is the cheapest time to accumulate: hashprice and machine prices fall with it, while the coins mined keep their full count.

Below all-time high, month by month

MonthBelow all-time high
2025-10-12.0%
2025-11-26.7%
2025-12-29.2%
2026-01-34.5%
2026-02-47.6%
2026-03-45.9%
2026-04-38.9%
2026-05-40.8%
2026-06-52.6%
2026-07-48.9%
2026-08-37.1%
2026-09-30.4%

Questions

What is distance from the all-time high today?
-30.4% as of September 22, 2026, down 20.1% over the last 30 days.
How has it changed over the past year?
A year ago it was -6.3%; today it is -30.4%, a change of +382.4%.
How is this chart calculated?
Zero means bitcoin closed at a new record that day; −50% means it was worth half its best price so far. Every cycle has had a deep one — more than 80% in 2015 and 2018, about 77% in 2022 — and every one of them was eventually made back in full.

By year

2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013

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Updated daily. Latest data 2026-09-22.

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