Retail price of conventional premium gasoline (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the retail price of conventional premium gasoline was 5.08 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 4.93 on 7 September. This represents a rise of 3.04 percent.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 1,864 data points. The span of time covered by the series extends from August 1990 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: the retail price reached a minimum of 0.99 USD/gal on 3 January 1994; it attained a maximum of 5.51 on 13 June 2022; it had an average value of 2.57.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.83300 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.92700 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.08300 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of conventional premium gasoline |
| 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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