Retail price of premium 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 premium gasoline was 6.20 USD/gal on 2 November 2026, versus 6.36 on 26 October. This represents a reduction of 2.38 percent.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 1,381 records in total. The time period covered by the series stretches from May 2000 to November 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: the retail price was equal on average to 3.59 USD/gal; it hit a minimum of 1.30 USD/gal on 31 December 2001; it recorded its maximum of 6.68 USD/gal on 5 October 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | 6.49600 |
| 2026-10-26 | 6.35500 |
| 2026-11-02 | 6.20400 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of premium 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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