SPY at-the-money implied volatility near 30 days to expiry, monthly averages (Jul 2025 to Jul 2026)

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-14, from What Is the VIX? What It Really Measures.

Rows × columns

13 × 6

Period covered

2025-07-01 to 2026-07-01

Computed

2026-08-14

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-14, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT toStartOfMonth(date) AS month,
       formatDateTimeInJodaSyntax(toStartOfMonth(date), 'MMMM yyyy') AS month_label,
       round(avg(implied_volatility) * 100, 1) AS avg_iv_pct,
       round(min(implied_volatility) * 100, 1) AS lowest_print_pct,
       round(max(implied_volatility) * 100, 1) AS highest_print_pct,
       count() AS contracts
FROM global_markets.options_greeks
WHERE underlying_symbol = 'SPY'
  AND date >= toDate('2025-07-01')
  AND date < toDate('2026-08-01')
  AND abs(delta) BETWEEN 0.45 AND 0.55
  AND days_to_expiry BETWEEN 23 AND 37
  AND iv_converged
  AND implied_volatility BETWEEN 0.02 AND 3
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY month