PADD 5 · Regional fuel market
Weekly average from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, week of September 14, 2026. Below: where this sits in its 52-week range, what the price is made of, and what actually moves this market.
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Ranked by pump price. Click a region to view its dashboard.
| # | Region | Regular ↑ | vs others | vs last wk | Mid | Prem | Diesel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ | Texas | $3.806 | +0.188 | $4.30 | $4.65 | — | |
| 2 | Gulf Coast (PADD 3) | $3.852 | +0.167 | $4.36 | $4.70 | $6.03 | |
| 3 | Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) | $4.041 | +0.181 | $4.51 | $4.87 | $6.10 | |
| 4 | Midwest (PADD 2) | $4.091 | +0.197 | $4.58 | $5.18 | $6.25 | |
| 5 | Florida | $4.102 | +0.242 | $4.56 | $4.86 | — | |
| 6 | Ohio | $4.147 | +0.262 | $4.71 | $5.26 | — | |
| 7 | East Coast (PADD 1) | $4.191 | +0.160 | $4.69 | $5.07 | $6.16 | |
| 8 | Minnesota | $4.223 | +0.146 | $4.59 | $5.16 | — | |
| 9 | Colorado | $4.230 | +0.043 | $4.62 | $4.99 | — | |
| 10 | Massachusetts | $4.253 | +0.093 | $4.85 | $5.27 | — | |
| 11 | New England (PADD 1A) | $4.294 | +0.105 | $4.88 | $5.27 | $6.20 | |
| 12 | U.S. National Average | $4.319 | +0.162 | $4.92 | $5.32 | $6.29 | |
| 13 | New York | $4.339 | +0.079 | $4.86 | $5.29 | — | |
| 14 | Central Atlantic (PADD 1B) | $4.387 | +0.147 | $4.92 | $5.26 | $6.31 | |
| 15 | Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) | $4.438 | +0.124 | $4.77 | $5.12 | $6.07 | |
| 16 | West Coast excl. CA | $5.026 | +0.051 | $5.42 | $5.67 | $6.57 | |
| 17 | West Coast (PADD 5)you | $5.467 | +0.105 | $5.88 | $6.08 | $7.25 | |
| 18 | Washington | $5.503 | +0.020 | $5.82 | $6.03 | — | |
| ↑ | California | $5.827 | +0.149 | $6.11 | $6.28 | $8.04 |
Our reading of the last 52 weeks of EIA data for this market. Updated when EIA publishes its weekly survey each Tuesday morning.
At $5.467 a gallon, West Coast (PADD 5) is near its most expensive point of the past year. The cheapest week of the last year was $3.649 in January 2026; the most expensive was $5.613 in May 2026. Over the past four weeks the price has moved up 7.5%, and up 4.6% over three months.
Week-to-week, this market is among the most volatile fuel markets in the US — prices vary by 14.1% around their own average, against a typical US regional figure of roughly 5–7%.
West Coast (PADD 5) is currently $1.148 above the national average. Its typical gap over the past year has been $1.095 above the nation, so the current gap is $0.053 wider than usual.
| Crude oil | $2.359 | 43% | WTI at $99.08 a barrel ÷ 42 gallons |
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Tax is not broken out for multi-state regions because each state within West Coast (PADD 5) sets its own rate. See our state gas tax comparison for every rate in the country.
Diesel is running at $7.250, a spread of $1.783 over regular. Diesel and home heating oil come off the same refinery stream, so that gap usually widens in winter.
The West Coast is effectively a fuel island: no pipeline connects it to the rest of the United States.
PADD 5 must supply itself from its own refineries or import by tanker from Asia. When a West Coast refinery goes down, replacement cargoes take weeks to arrive rather than days by pipeline, which is why price spikes here are both larger and longer-lasting than anywhere else in the country.
Capacity is concentrated in the Los Angeles Basin, the San Francisco Bay Area and Puget Sound, and it is shrinking. Phillips 66 shut its 139,000 b/d Wilmington refinery in late 2025 and Valero closed its 145,000 b/d Benicia plant in April 2026 — together about 11% of PADD 5 capacity. Earlier conversions of Phillips 66 Rodeo and Marathon Martinez to renewable fuels had already cut the gasoline-making base.
California’s CARB specification and Washington’s requirements mean much of the region burns fuel that few outside refineries are equipped to produce. This is the single most important structural fact about West Coast pricing: the supply pool is small by regulation, not just by geography.
Any unplanned outage at a major California or Puget Sound refinery, and the pace of tanker arrivals from Asia. With two plants gone in under a year, the region has less slack to absorb the next one.