5-month forward price of diesel (USD/gal) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward diesel prices in the US
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 5-month forward price of diesel stood at 4.167 USD/gal on 21 September 2026, compared to 4.279 on 18 September. This represents a decrease of 2.62 percent.
Sample. In the daily series presented in the figure, there are 3,757 data points overall. The series covers the time span stretching from April 2012 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price achieved a maximum of 4.413 USD/gal on 15 September 2026; it hit a trough of 0.892 on 28 April 2020; it was equal on average to 2.269.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | 4.296 |
| 2026-09-18 | 4.279 |
| 2026-09-21 | 4.167 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 5-month forward price of NY Harbor ULSD |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/gal |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Refers to NY Harbor ULSD (Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel) |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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