Natural gas rose to 4.94 USD/MMBtu on December 3, 2025, up 2.04% from the previous day. Over the past month, Natural gas's price has risen 13.71%, and is up 62.29% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Natural gas - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

The average monthly price for natural gas in the United States amounted to *** nominal U.S. dollars per million British thermal units (Btu) in October 2025. By contrast, natural gas prices in Europe were about three times higher than those in the U.S. Prices in Europe tend to be notably higher than those in the U.S. as the latter benefits from being a major hydrocarbon producer. Europe's import reliance European prices for natural gas rose most notable throughout the second half of 2021 and much of 2022, peaking at over ** U.S. dollars per million Btu in August 2022. The sharp rise was due to supply chain issues and economic strain following the COVID-19 pandemic, which was further exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. As a result of the war, many countries began looking for alternative sources, and Russian pipeline gas imports to the European Union declined as a result. Meanwhile, LNG was a great beneficiary, with LNG demand in Europe rising by more than ** percent between 2021 and 2024. How domestic natural gas production shapes prices As intimated, the United States’ position among the leaders of worldwide natural gas production is one of the main reasons for why prices for this commodity are so low across the country. In 2024, the U.S. produced more than ************ cubic meters of natural gas, which allays domestic demand and allows for far lower purchasing prices.

Graph and download economic data for Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Price (DHHNGSP) from 1997-01-07 to 2025-11-24 about natural resources, gas, price, and USA.

Natural gas prices are the highest in the residential sector. In 2024, U.S. households paid 14.59 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic feet, down from an all-time high of over 15.2 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic feet. Overall, U.S. residential natural gas prices have increased nearly tenfold since 1975. Commercial natural gas costs were second-highest, while prices in the electric power sector were the lowest, at around three U.S. dollars on average. Prices for the industrial and electric power customers tend to be close to the wholesale electricity price. The growing natural gas market U.S. natural gas consumption has increased more than any other fuel after the U.S. oil boom of the 2010s. Petroleum consumption has been more variable, and use of coal has significantly decreased. Today, natural gas is used extensively for electric power generation, with it having overtaken coal as the primary electricity generating source. This is despite coal prices being a lot less volatile and generally lower than natural gas. Future of natural gas on the global stage Natural gas is also an important energy source worldwide. It has been the second-largest source of electricity generation since the 2000s and has slowly narrowed the gap to coal, the world's main power source. In 2024, natural gas-powered turbines the world over generated 6,890 terawatt-hours of electricity.

Natural gas prices (US) in , October, 2025 For that commodity indicator, we provide data from January 1960 to October 2025. The average value during that period was 2.41 USD per million British thermal units with a minimum of 0.14 USD per million British thermal units in January 1960 and a maximum of 13.52 USD per million British thermal units in October 2005. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

This dataset provides a comprehensive time series of natural gas prices with a focus on the U.S. Henry Hub Natural Gas Spot Price, one of the most widely used benchmarks for natural gas pricing.

Data is collected from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), ensuring high reliability and transparency.

Coverage

• Frequency: Daily and Monthly
• Period: January 1997 – Present
• Units: U.S. Dollars per Million British Thermal Units (nominal)

Applications

This dataset can be useful for:

• Energy market analysis
• Time series forecasting
• Price volatility studies
• Economic and policy research
• Machine learning projects involving energy price prediction

On September 26, 2025, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price amounted to 2.91 U.S. dollars per million British thermal units. Since 2022, spikes in prices are usually related to cold fronts impacting refiners. The European gas benchmark Dutch TTF also rose amid colder weather. What is Henry Hub? The Henry Hub price is seen as the most important benchmark for the U.S. natural gas market. As of 1990, it has been used for pricing of natural gas traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange and later the Intercontinental Exchange. The hub in question is a distribution pipeline system in Louisiana and began operating in the 1950s. The highest Henry Hub annual average prices were recorded in 2005 and 2008, when they climbed to over eight U.S. dollars per million British thermal units. Weekly average prices also reached nearly 10 U.S. dollars in 2022 as a result of global supply constraints. Natural gas export prices In recent years, the U.S. has been incentivized to build up its liquefaction and LNG export capacities as it widens the potential customer pool. With sanctions on Russian energy imports, many European countries looked to the U.S. for procuring natural gas from 2022 onward. In line with Henry Hub pricing development, the monthly LNG export price also showed volatility depending on market and geopolitical events.

In 2024, the price of natural gas in Europe reached 11 constant U.S. dollars per million British thermal units, compared with 2.2 U.S. dollars in the U.S. This was a notable decrease compared to the previous year, which had seen a steep increase in prices due to an energy supply shortage exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war. Since 1980, natural gas prices have typically been higher in Europe than in the United States and are expected to remain so for the coming two years. This is due to the U.S. being a significantly larger natural gas producer than Europe. What is natural gas and why is it gaining ground in the energy market? Natural gas is commonly burned in power plants with combustion turbines that generate electricity or used as a heating fuel. Given the fact that the world’s energy demand continues to grow, natural gas was seen by some industry leaders as an acceptable "bridge-fuel" to overcome the use of more emission-intensive energy sources such as coal. Subsequently, natural gas has become the main fuel for electricity generation in the U.S., while the global gas power generation share has reached over 22 percent. How domestic production shapes U.S. natural gas prices The combination of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and horizontal drilling can be regarded as one of the oil and gas industry’s biggest breakthroughs in decades, with the U.S. being the largest beneficiary. This technology has helped the industry release unprecedented quantities of gas from deposits, mainly shale and tar sands that were previously thought either inaccessible or uneconomic. It is forecast that U.S. shale gas production could reach 36 trillion cubic feet in 2050, up from 1.77 trillion cubic feet in 2000.

This dataset consists of natural gas prices for wellhead, imports, exports, citygate, and end-use sectors. The data also contains percentages of total volume delivered by sector.

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Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: Rhode Island data was reported at 14.860 USD/1000 Cub ft in Feb 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 18.230 USD/1000 Cub ft for Jan 2025. Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: Rhode Island data is updated monthly, averaging 11.935 USD/1000 Cub ft from Jan 1989 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 432 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23.650 USD/1000 Cub ft in Aug 2023 and a record low of 4.220 USD/1000 Cub ft in Sep 1991. Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: Rhode Island data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.P012: Natural Gas Prices.

Countries in Europe have some of the highest natural gas prices for the industry in the world. In the first quarter of 2025, industrial customers in Switzerland paid approximately 0.17 U.S. dollars per kilowatt hour worth of natural gas. This was considerably higher than the price of gas in natural gas producing countries such as Russia. Determining natural gas prices Like other commodities, natural gas prices are driven by supply and demand trends. In some instances, they may also reflect developments within the oil market, as both commodities are often produced together. Natural gas prices are volatile. Seeing as the consumption of natural gas is often without alternative (e.g. within power plants), short-term changes to supply and demand have huge repercussions for the market. Weather is also a common determinant of natural gas prices. Unprecedented heat waves in the U.S. have driven up electricity demand for air conditioning and affected weekly Henry Hub natural gas prices in the hotter summer months. Natural gas demand Primary energy demand generated by natural gas worldwide is highest in North America. Nevertheless, forecasts suggest that the Asia Pacific region will experience a doubling in such demand by 2050 and overtake consumers in North America. The United States is still leading a ranking of world natural gas consumption by country. However, China has increased its LNG and gas pipeline investment portfolio, which could see it becoming an even greater consumer in the future.

Hawaii was the state with the highest price of natural gas for industry in 2024, standing at 28.35 U.S. dollars per thousand cubic feet. This was more than double the price in Massachusetts, which ranked second. Meanwhile, the average natural gas price for industry in the U.S. stood at 3.93 U.S. dollars per thousand cubic feet in 2024.

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Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: New Jersey data was reported at 12.300 USD/1000 Cub ft in Feb 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 12.380 USD/1000 Cub ft for Jan 2025. Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: New Jersey data is updated monthly, averaging 8.770 USD/1000 Cub ft from Jan 1989 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 432 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 18.530 USD/1000 Cub ft in Jun 2008 and a record low of 1.940 USD/1000 Cub ft in Aug 2000. Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: New Jersey data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.P012: Natural Gas Prices.

About Dataset

Context

The datasets have been extracted and cleaned through Versatile Data Kit (VDK), a framework released by VMware. You can find the whole example to extract data at this link. VDK permits you to ingest and process different formats of data. In this case, data have been ingested by exploiting the CSV ingester.

Content

There are four datasets: * natural_gas_prices.csv - The Natural Gas Prices dataset contains 5,953 records, provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration(EIA). Each record contains the daily price of natural gas. For each record, the following information is available: Date (provided on a daily basis), Price (in dollars). * climate_extreme_index.csv - The U.S. Climate Extremes Index dataset contains 112 records. For each record, many parameters can be downloaded. Data Analysts select the following information: Date (provided on an annual basis), Percentage of minimum temperature much above normal, Percentage of minimum temperature much below normal. * average_gas_prices_by_year.csv - an aggregation of the natural_gas_prices by year. * merged_tables.csv - a merged table containing average_gas_prices_by_year and climate_extremes_index. Values are normalized in the interval [0,1] thus making possible a comparison among them.

Acknowledgements

The extraction of this dataset has been supported by VMware.

Inspiration

The datasets can be used for Time Series Analysis.

Average natural gas in the U.S. Henry Hub stood at **** U.S. dollars per million British thermal unit in 2024, a decrease when compared to the previous year. Henry hub natural gas prices peaked in 2008 at **** U.S. dollars per million British thermal unit.

Graph and download economic data for US Regular All Formulations Gas Price (GASREGW) from 1990-08-20 to 2025-12-01 about gas, commodities, and USA.

Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: Mississippi data was reported at 11.250 USD/1000 Cub ft in Feb 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 10.760 USD/1000 Cub ft for Jan 2025. Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: Mississippi data is updated monthly, averaging 7.835 USD/1000 Cub ft from Jan 1989 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 434 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16.720 USD/1000 Cub ft in Oct 2005 and a record low of 2.610 USD/1000 Cub ft in Sep 1995. Natural Gas: Average Commercial Price: Mississippi data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.P012: Natural Gas Prices.

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