Retail price of 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 gasoline was 4.46 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, versus 4.29 on 7 September. This represents a rise of 3.96 percent.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,745 observations. The time span covered by the series stretches from April 1993 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: the retail price reached its maximum of 5.11 USD/gal on 13 June 2022; it recorded a minimum of 0.95 on 22 February 1999; it had a mean value of 2.44.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.207 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.295 |
| 2026-09-14 | 4.455 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of 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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