Retail price of 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 premium gasoline was 5.32 USD/gal on 14 September 2026, versus 5.17 on 7 September. This represents a gain of 2.90 percent.
Sample. There are 1,659 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time span going from November 1994 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: the retail price had an average value of 2.83 USD/gal; it achieved a maximum of 5.76 on 13 June 2022; it reached a minimum of 1.10 on 22 February 1999.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/gal |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-31 | 5.07000 |
| 2026-09-07 | 5.17100 |
| 2026-09-14 | 5.31600 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail price of 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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