6-month forward price of natural gas (USD/MMBtu) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward natural gas prices in the US
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 6-month forward price of natural gas was 3.652 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, versus 3.748 on the previous day. This constitutes a reduction of 2.56 percent.
Sample. There are 3,814 data points overall in the daily series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price had an average value of 3.460 USD/MMBtu; it registered a minimum of 1.921 on 28 February 2020; it reached a maximum of 9.309 on 7 June 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 3.756 |
| 2026-08-12 | 3.748 |
| 2026-08-13 | 3.652 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 6-month forward price of natural gas |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/MMBtu |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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