Final-user natural gas price: commercial: California (USD/thousand cubic feet) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Final-user gas prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In California, the average price of natural gas delivered to commercial consumers was 15.20 USD per thousand cubic feet in July 2026, versus 14.00 in June 2026. This constitutes a gain of 8.57 percent.
Sample. In this monthly time series, there are 449 observations in total. The period covered by the series extends from January 1989 to July 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: the average price of natural gas delivered to commercial consumers had an average value of 8.76 USD per thousand cubic feet; it reached its lowest level of 3.77 USD per thousand cubic feet in May 1992; it recorded its highest level of 24.42 USD per thousand cubic feet in February 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/thousand cubic feet |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 16.2900 |
| 2026-06-30 | 14.0000 |
| 2026-07-31 | 15.2000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Average price of natural gas delivered to commercial consumers in California |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | USD/thousand cubic feet |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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