Retail price of midgrade 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 midgrade gasoline was 6.11 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 5.96 on 7 September 2026. This marks an increase of 2.52 percent.
Sample. There are 1,659 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: the retail price recorded a maximum of 6.54 USD/gal on 13 June 2022; it reached a trough of 0.98 on 8 March 1999; it had a mean of 3.08.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 5.81100 |
| 2026-09-07 | 5.95900 |
| 2026-09-14 | 6.10700 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of midgrade 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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