21-month forward price of diesel (USD/gal) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward diesel prices in the US
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 21-month forward price of diesel was 2.986 USD/gal on 18 September 2026, versus 2.935 on 17 September. This marks an increase of 1.74 percent.
Sample. There are 3,756 observations in the daily series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series is from April 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price hit a peak of 3.252 USD/gal on 30 April 2012; it recorded a bottom of 1.183 on 20 January 2016; it had an average value of 2.183.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-16 | 2.95300 |
| 2026-09-17 | 2.93500 |
| 2026-09-18 | 2.98600 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 21-month forward price of NY Harbor ULSD |
| 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/gal |
| Source | FetchSeries Research (FSR); estimates from FSR energy-market model |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Refers to NY Harbor ULSD (Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel) |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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