6-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 6-month forward price of diesel stood at 4.034 USD/gal on 21 September 2026, versus 4.127 on 18 September 2026. This represents a decrease of 2.25 percent.
Sample. There are 3,757 observations in the daily series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time range stretching from April 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price registered a minimum of 0.929 USD/gal on 28 April 2020; it hit a maximum of 4.254 on 15 September 2026; it averaged 2.260.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | 4.133 |
| 2026-09-18 | 4.127 |
| 2026-09-21 | 4.034 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 6-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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