Retail price of premium 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 premium gasoline stood at 6.28 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, compared to 6.14 on 7 September. This represents a gain of 2.28 percent.
Sample. There are 1,660 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the retail price had an average value of 3.19 USD/gal; it reached its highest level of 6.64 on 13 June 2022; it reached a trough of 1.07 on 8 March 1999.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 5.98300 |
| 2026-09-07 | 6.14000 |
| 2026-09-14 | 6.28400 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of premium 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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