Retail price of gasoline in California (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In California, the retail price of gasoline was 5.94 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 5.79 on 7 September. This marks a rise of 2.59 percent.
Sample. There are 1,660 data points in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series goes from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: the retail price recorded a minimum of 1.15 USD/gal on 31 December 2001; it recorded a maximum of 6.36 on 13 June 2022; it had a mean of 3.03.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 5.63100 |
| 2026-09-07 | 5.78700 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.93600 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of gasoline in California |
| 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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