Graph and download economic data for Average Price: Gasoline, Unleaded Premium (Cost per Gallon/3.785 Liters) in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) (APUS11A74716) from Sep 1981 to May 2025 about Boston, NH, MA, energy, gas, urban, retail, price, and USA.

United States - Average Price: Gasoline, Unleaded Midgrade (Cost per Gallon/3.785 Liters) in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) was 3.52400 Index in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Average Price: Gasoline, Unleaded Midgrade (Cost per Gallon/3.785 Liters) in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) reached a record high of 5.38300 in June of 2022 and a record low of 1.06400 in March of 1999. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Average Price: Gasoline, Unleaded Midgrade (Cost per Gallon/3.785 Liters) in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

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