5-month forward price of gasoline (USD/gal) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward gasoline prices in the US
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 5-month forward price of gasoline was 2.789 USD/gal on 18 September 2026, compared to 2.778 on 17 September 2026. This constitutes a gain of 0.40 percent.
Sample. This daily time series has 3,840 observations. The series covers the span of time extending from January 2012 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price reached a trough of 0.646 USD/gal on 23 March 2020; it recorded its maximum of 3.430 on 9 June 2022; it had a mean of 2.093.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-16 | 2.76300 |
| 2026-09-17 | 2.77800 |
| 2026-09-18 | 2.78900 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 5-month forward price of gasoline |
| 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 RBOB (Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending) gasoline |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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