Retail price of midgrade gasoline in Boston (USD/gal) - United States - EIA - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail gasoline prices (US)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Boston, the retail price of midgrade gasoline was 4.82 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 4.77 on 7 September 2026. This represents an increase of 1.05 percent.
Sample. There are 1,659 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the span of time stretching from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: the retail price hit a trough of 1.01 USD/gal on 22 February 1999; it hit a peak of 5.43 on 13 June 2022; it had a mean of 2.64.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 4.64700 |
| 2026-09-07 | 4.76900 |
| 2026-09-14 | 4.81600 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of midgrade gasoline in Boston |
| 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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