Gas Prices by Metro Area
The EIA publishes a weekly average price of regular gasoline for 10 metro areas. This week they range from $3.84 in Houston to $6.31 in San Francisco, against a U.S. average of $4.35 (week of October 5, 2026).
| Rank | Metro area | Regular / gal | vs. U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Houston | Texas | $3.84 | −51.8¢ |
| 2nd | Cleveland | Ohio | $3.86 | −49.5¢ |
| 3rd | Denver | Colorado | $3.98 | −37.5¢ |
| 4th | Miami | Florida | $4.08 | −27.9¢ |
| 5th | Boston | Massachusetts | $4.33 | −2.1¢ |
| 6th | New York City | New York | $4.34 | −1.4¢ |
| 7th | Chicago | Illinois | $4.63 | +27.9¢ |
| 8th | Seattle | Washington | $5.66 | +$1.30 |
| 9th | Los Angeles | California | $6.21 | +$1.86 |
| 10th | San Francisco | California | $6.31 | +$1.95 |
Each metro page shows the weekly price back to 2000 or 2003, how the metro compares with its state and the nation, its record high and low, and the supply, fuel rules and local taxes behind its prices. The three West Coast metros (Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle) are usually the most expensive; Houston, next to the Gulf Coast refineries, is usually the cheapest.
Compared with the U.S. average of $4.35 per gallon.
EIA’s weekly retail gasoline survey covers the nation, five PADD regions, a set of states, and these ten metro panels. Other cities are not surveyed weekly, so no official weekly price exists for them, and this site does not estimate one. (For states the situation differs: EIA publishes an annual average for every state, so the state pages carry a labelled weekly estimate for the 41 states and D.C. without a weekly series; see the methodology.)
What the ten metro series can and cannot tell you
The prices in the table come from the same weekly EIA retail survey as the national average, but from separate panels of stations in each metro area. They describe the whole metro, suburbs included, rather than a city’s limits. The ten panels cover nine states; California has two, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Metro prices follow the national cycle, but by different amounts. In 2025 the U.S. weekly price of regular ranged from $2.81 in the week of December 29, 2025 to $3.24 in the week of April 7, 2025, and the annual average was $3.10. Each metro page charts the same weeks, so its swing can be compared with that range.
The “vs. U.S.” column is the gap to this week’s national figure, not to the metro’s own state. For that comparison, and for records and long-run history, open the metro page. Weekly histories begin in 2000 or 2003, depending on when the panel started. The EIA does not publish diesel at metro level, so none is shown. For a city that is not listed, the page for its state is the closest official figure.
Figures in this section are computed from U.S. Energy Information Administration data in the US Gas Gauge database.
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Cite as: US Gas Gauge, “Metro Gas Prices,” usgasgauge.com/gas-prices/cities. Source data: U.S. Energy Information Administration.