Ethereum returned 90.65% in 2023 in United States Dollar terms, not including transaction fees or effects of taxes. On January 1, 2023, Ethereum opened* at $1,196.71, and closed* December 31, 2023 at $2,281.47 a coin.
* Ethereum trades continuously – there is no traditional open and close, only an open and close trade of a year. Prices are based on CoinMarketCap data, sourced from Yahoo! Finance.
The 2023 Ethereum Return: Eth is back
In 2023, ethereum recovered. After quite a large fall in 2022, it sprung back in 2023, nearly doubling (unlike its cousin Bitcoin, which more than doubled in 2023).

You can try our our ethereum return calculator to see return between any two arbitrary dates. You can optionally adjust for inflation, measured by CPI.