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How many days from Bitcoin's top to the bottom?
In the three completed cycles the bottom came 406, 364 and 378 days after the top, and it sat 85, 83 and 77 percent below it. Every number on this page is counted from our own archive of daily prices since 2010, not copied from another site, and the page makes no forecast.
Day count updates by itself from one fixed date. The price is the latest reading in our daily market log, taken at 21:23 UTC, and is stamped with its date.
Where the past cycles stood on this same day
This is the comparison most pages skip. Take the number of days we are into this cycle and look up where the three previous cycles were on that exact day.
| Cycle | On day 343 | Below its top | Bottom came on day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 to 2015 | 24 Nov 2014 | -67.1% | 406 |
| 2017 to 2018 | 6 Dec 2018 | -81.9% | 364 |
| 2021 to 2022 | 29 Oct 2022 | -69.2% | 378 |
| 2025 to now | 25 Sep 2026 | -32.6% | not known |
The three completed rows recompute every day from the archived prices of those cycles. The last row is today. Read the gap between them however you like; we do not read it for you.
The completed cycles, charted
| Cycle | Top (price) | Bottom (price) | Days | Drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 to 2015 | 4 Dec 2013, 1,137 | 14 Jan 2015, 172 | 406 | -84.9% |
| 2017 to 2018 | 16 Dec 2017, 19,280 | 15 Dec 2018, 3,232 | 364 | -83.2% |
| 2021 to 2022 | 8 Nov 2021, 67,562 | 21 Nov 2022, 15,760 | 378 | -76.7% |
| 2025 to now | 6 Oct 2025, 124,777 | not known | 355 | -32.6% |
A cycle low can only be named in hindsight. The bottom row has no bottom for the simple reason that nobody can know one yet, and any page that fills that cell is guessing.
Why other sites show different dates and prices
You will find the last top quoted as 126,198 on 6 October 2025. We put the top on the same day and carry a different price, 124,777. You will find the 2021 top on 10 November, where we have 8 November. None of those are wrong, and neither are ours. They are intraday extremes from a single exchange. Ours are full-day prices.
We use full-day prices for one reason: they can be checked. An intraday print exists on one venue for one second. A full-day price is the same number for everyone who looks at the same day. It moves some dates by a day or two either side and moves the top by about 1,400 dollars, and it changes nothing about the shape: all three completed cycles still land between 364 and 406 days.
The 2013 top is the one that moves most between methods. Intraday sources put it on 30 November 2013. The highest full-day price came four days later, on 4 December. We use the full day, and we say so.
What this does not tell you
It does not tell you when this cycle bottoms. Three cycles are three data points, they differ by 42 days, and the market they traded in is not the market of 2015. Search this question and most results will name you a month. We will not, and that is deliberate.
It also does not tell you a price. We publish no price targets, in any format, ever. The bottom prices in the table are history, not a template.
How we count
Every price on this page is one price per UTC day from PulseHawk's own archive of 5,849 daily Bitcoin prices from 17 August 2010 to today, built from the blockchain.com market price series, which is a cross-exchange price for the whole day rather than one venue's closing trade. A cycle top is the highest price before the next cycle's top; a cycle bottom is the lowest price between two tops. Days are calendar days between those two prices, with the top day as day zero. The comparison table looks up each past cycle on the same day number and divides that day's price by that cycle's top.
Archive built once and appended daily. Nothing on this page is sourced from CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin Magazine or any other site's tables.
Questions people ask
406, 364 and 378 days in the three completed cycles, counted between daily prices.
84.9, 83.2 and 76.7 percent, top price to bottom price. The drop got smaller each cycle. Whether that continues is not something three points can tell you.
6 October 2025, at a full-day price of 124,777 dollars.
14 January 2015, 15 December 2018 and 21 November 2022, lowest full-day price each time.
Nobody knows, and this page does not guess. What the comparison table means is your call.
Our own archive, 5,849 daily prices since 2010, from the blockchain.com market price series. Every date is in the tables above and can be checked against any daily chart in a couple of minutes. That is the point.