Regional fuel market
Weekly average from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, week of November 2, 2026. Below: where this sits in its 52-week range, what the price is made of, and what actually moves this market.
The EIA reports this region as PADD 2, one of five districts it uses for fuel data.
The U.S. oil price has risen $13.60 a barrel over the past month. Gas prices usually catch up within 2 to 4 weeks, as fuel made from that oil reaches stations.
Our reading of the last 52 weeks of EIA data for this market. Updated when EIA publishes its weekly survey each Tuesday morning.
At $4.102 a gallon, Midwest is toward the high end of its past-year range. The cheapest week of the last year was $2.585 in January 2026; the most expensive was $4.405 in May 2026. Over the past four weeks the price has moved down 0.2%, and up 4.4% over three months.
Week-to-week, this market is among the most volatile fuel markets in the US — prices vary by 17.7% around their own average, against a typical US regional figure of roughly 5–7%.
Midwest is currently $0.051 below the national average. Its typical gap over the past year has been $0.194 below the nation, so the current gap is $0.143 wider than usual.
Ranked by pump price. Click a region to view its dashboard.
| # | Region | Regular ↑ | vs others | vs last wk | Mid | Prem | Diesel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ | Texas | $3.578 | -0.054 | $4.10 | $4.44 | — | |
| 2 | Gulf Coast | $3.636 | -0.066 | $4.17 | $4.51 | $5.91 | |
| 3 | Lower Atlantic | $3.695 | -0.137 | $4.19 | $4.57 | $5.81 | |
| 4 | Florida | $3.791 | -0.226 | $4.27 | $4.60 | — | |
| 5 | East Coast | $3.936 | -0.086 | $4.45 | $4.85 | $6.03 | |
| 6 | Minnesota | $4.017 | -0.129 | $4.39 | $4.97 | — | |
| 7 | Colorado | $4.068 | -0.390 | $4.46 | $4.83 | — | |
| 8 | Ohio | $4.090 | -0.290 | $4.67 | $5.26 | — | |
| 9 | Midwestyou | $4.102 | -0.167 | $4.58 | $5.20 | $6.40 | |
| 10 | Massachusetts | $4.104 | -0.041 | $4.75 | $5.14 | — | |
| 11 | New England | $4.145 | -0.054 | $4.79 | $5.16 | $6.42 | |
| 12 | U.S. National Average | $4.153 | -0.116 | $4.76 | $5.16 | $6.29 | |
| 13 | Rocky Mountain | $4.213 | -0.245 | $4.57 | $4.89 | $6.45 | |
| 14 | New York | $4.217 | -0.032 | $4.73 | $5.15 | — | |
| 15 | Central Atlantic | $4.232 | -0.019 | $4.75 | $5.11 | $6.49 | |
| 16 | West Coast outside California | $4.771 | -0.097 | $5.19 | $5.43 | $6.58 | |
| 17 | Washington | $5.095 | -0.108 | $5.42 | $5.63 | — | |
| 18 | West Coast | $5.296 | -0.121 | $5.77 | $5.94 | $7.27 | |
| ↑ | California | $5.748 | -0.140 | $6.07 | $6.20 | $8.08 |
Gasoline is made from crude oil, so oil prices lead pump prices by a few weeks. Prices are in dollars per barrel (42 gallons). Traders call the U.S. price WTI and the world price Brent.
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| Crude oil | $2.552 | 62% | U.S. oil (WTI) at $107.17 a barrel ÷ 42 gallons |
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Tax is not broken out for multi-state regions because each state within Midwest sets its own rate. See our state gas tax comparison for every rate in the country.
Diesel is running at $6.402, a spread of $2.300 over regular. Diesel and home heating oil come off the same refinery stream, so that gap usually widens in winter.
The Midwest is landlocked, which means a refinery outage cannot be relieved by simply shipping in a cargo — and that produces the sharpest price spikes of any region.
Supply comes from refineries within the region plus pipelines running north from the Gulf Coast. Much of the crude feedstock is Canadian heavy crude arriving on the Enbridge Mainline, which usually trades at a discount and normally works in Midwest drivers' favour.
The Midwest has large refineries in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Kansas and Oklahoma, including some of the biggest inland plants in the country at Whiting and Pine Bend.
Ethanol blending is near-universal and several states mandate it outright. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis require reformulated gasoline in summer, creating small isolated sub-markets that can dislocate from the rest of the region.
Unplanned outages at the large inland refineries, Enbridge Mainline apportionment, and where the local price cycle currently sits.