Retail price of conventional premium gasoline (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the retail price of conventional premium gasoline was 5.08 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 4.93 on 7 September 2026. This marks an increase of 3.04 percent.
Sample. There are 1,647 observations in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range going from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the retail price reached a maximum of 5.51 USD/gal on 13 June 2022; it hit a minimum of 1.07 on 22 February 1999; it had a mean value of 2.76.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.833 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.927 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.083 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of conventional premium gasoline |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | USD/gal |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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