Retail price of gasoline in California (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In California, the retail price of gasoline was 5.86 USD/gal on 2 November 2026, compared to 6.00 on 26 October 2026. This marks a reduction of 2.35 percent.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the chart has 1,381 observations overall. The time period covered by the series extends from May 2000 to November 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the retail price had an average value of 3.39 USD/gal; it recorded a maximum of 6.36 USD/gal on 13 June 2022; it reached a trough of 1.15 USD/gal on 31 December 2001.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | 6.14500 |
| 2026-10-26 | 6.00300 |
| 2026-11-02 | 5.86200 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of gasoline in California |
| 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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