Ethereum all-time high and real returns ETH

Ethereum's highest recorded price was $4,946.05 on 24 August 2025, from CoinGecko's record of intraday trades. Restated with US CPI to Oct 2026, that is $5,114.04 in today's dollars. In pounds it was £3,660.76 at the time, or £3,773.76 after UK inflation.

On month-end closes, which is what our tables use, the peak was $4,630.26 in Nov 2021, worth $5,580.34 today. The latest price is 54.4% below the real high.

Our monthly history for Ethereum starts in August 2015. Since then it is up 215,421% in dollars and up 153,229% after US inflation, so it has beaten inflation over that stretch. Measured in pounds after UK CPI the figure is up 174,652%. Against the US M2 money supply it is up 111,711%.

After the Jan 2018 peak of $1,124.81 it fell 90.5% by Jan 2019, and closed above the old high again after 3 years. In real terms it took 3 years. After the Nov 2021 peak of $4,630.26 it fell 76.9% by Jun 2022, and has not closed above that high since. In real terms it has not recovered.

These use month-end closes, so intraday highs and lows were more extreme.

Ethereum was trading at $2,498.86 when we last checked, at 00:14 BST on 14 Oct 2026, which is up 1.6% on 24 hours earlier. Crypto never closes, so we fetch a fresh price from CoinGecko every five minutes, and the figure here can be a few minutes old by the time you read it. At that price all the Ethereum in circulation is worth about $305.2bn, and $13.1bn changed hands over the past day. Over the last month the price has moved +0.9% and over the last year −41.1%.

No, or at least not on the 14-day RSI, which reads 43.3 at the moment. We'd only start calling Ethereum overbought above 70 and it hasn't been there since 21 Sept 2026, while the last time it went the other way and dropped below 30 was 10 Jun 2026. RSI looks back over 14 sessions and asks how much of the movement was up and how much was down, so a reading in the 30s or 40s mostly tells us the past few weeks have been fairly even. Ethereum spent 12 sessions at 70 or above in the past year, which is one reason we don't treat a high reading as a cue to sell: in a strong run it can stay there for weeks.

Going back to 13 Oct 2025, Ethereum's best day was 19 Aug 2026, when it rose 17.5%, and its worst was 5 Feb 2026, a fall of 14.9%. We measure each day from one daily close to the next in US dollars, so a spike that reversed within the same day won't show up here. Across those 366 days it moved 5% or more on 36 of them and finished higher 50% of the time, which gives you a feel for how bumpy holding it has been.

Over the past 12 months Ethereum is down 41.1%, and since the start of the year it is down 15.8%. We put it next to Bitcoin because that is the obvious alternative for most people weighing up Ethereum, and it moved −27.8% over the same 12 months, a gap of 13.4 points in Bitcoin's favour.

About 41.1%, so it would need to rise 69.9% to get back there. The highest close in the past year was $4,244.36 on 13 Oct 2025 and the lowest was $1,565.05 on 25 Jun 2026, which puts today's price 35% of the way up that range. We work this out from daily closing prices rather than the intraday highs and lows an exchange reports, so our high can be a little lower than the one you'll see quoted elsewhere.

Ethereum is 49.5% below its all-time high of $4,946, which it set on 24 August 2025, and its all-time low is $0.433, from October 2015. At $2,499 it is much closer to its high than most of the coins we track. These figures come from CoinGecko and refresh every five minutes.

Ethereum is in Fair value, with a Bargain Score of 54: neither the buy-side nor the sell-side conditions are strong enough to place it anywhere else. Rather than a recommendation, the label is a reading of where Ethereum's price and the wider market sit against the model's rules at this moment, and because the Fear & Greed value and the daily RSI both update at midnight UTC, just after midnight is when it is most likely to change. The 2-dot meter beside it shows where that zone sits on the five-step scale, from one dot for Expensive to five for Deep discount.

Ethereum has had two earlier falls of 50% or more in our price history: after its $4,065 peak in March 2024 it fell 64% and took 17 months to close above that level again, in August 2025; after its $4,832 peak in August 2025 it fell 68% and has not closed above that level since. Those are the only data points we have for this coin, which is too few to say anything reliable about the next recovery, since market conditions, supply and competition are different each cycle and some coins never regain a previous high.

The model starts from Ethereum's full range, its all-time high of $4,946 divided by its all-time low of $0.433, which is roughly 11,423-fold. It shrinks that multiple with a decay factor, on the assumption that each cycle is smaller than the last, and applies it from the low. For Ethereum that reduced repeat would not reach the old high, so the targets are anchored just above it instead, at $5,193, $5,688 and $6,430, which puts the low scenario 108% above today's price. They describe what a reduced repeat of the past would look like and say nothing about whether that will happen. Cryptoassets are high risk, and you should be prepared to lose all the money you put into them.

Because the score and the zone measure different things. The score blends price distress, sentiment, positioning, resilience and supply into one number, while the zone checks whether specific conditions line up, such as Fear & Greed crossing a threshold or the RSI reaching oversold or overbought levels. With Fear & Greed at 57 (Greed) and Ethereum's RSI at 36, not enough of the buy-side conditions are met to move Ethereum further up the scale.