Live Silver Spot Price Today

The strip at the top of this page shows the live silver spot price— the wholesale price for immediate delivery of one troy ounce of 99.9% pure silver, quoted in US dollars as XAG/USD. While the market is open it polls the live feed every 60 seconds and carries a green “Live” badge with the time of the last tick. When the market is closed — weekends, and the daily 5:00–6:00 PM ET break — it shows the last close with an amber “Market closed” label and the time the market reopens. Silver trades on exactly the same hours as gold: Sunday 6:00 PM ET through Friday 5:00 PM ET. The price is never blank and never faked: if the live feed is unreachable, the page falls back to the last known price or the twice-daily sheet value, and says which one it is showing.

The day-change card compares the current price with the previous daily close, and the 30-day range shows the lowest and highest daily closes of the last month — both from real dated snapshots, not estimates. Those two numbers are the honest way to judge a move: silver routinely swings a few percent in a day, so a 2% rise that looks dramatic on its own may be an ordinary day inside a wide 30-day range. The recent-closes table below the cards gives the same story day by day.

Why silver moves more than gold

Silver’s market is far smaller than gold’s, so the same amount of money moves the price much further. And unlike gold, which is mostly bought to be held, roughly half of all silver is consumed by industry — solar panels, electronics, electric vehicles — so the price answers to the industrial cycle as well as to investment flows. When both pull the same way, silver can outrun gold sharply; when they pull apart, it can lag just as sharply. That is why the 30-day range on this page is usually wider, in percentage terms, than gold’s. For the longer story behind the moves, see silver price history, and for how the benchmark itself is set, how the silver price is set.