Propane Prices Today: Wholesale Benchmark + Live State Surveys
This is the wholesale benchmark (what distributors pay at the Mont Belvieu, TX hub), not the delivered residential price. Residential context, live state surveys, and the honest status of the paused EIA survey are all below.
How much is propane per gallon right now?
As of 13 July 2026, residential propane averages $2.67 per gallon in the United States (last EIA weekly survey, week ending 30 March 2026; the survey pauses April-September), with the Mont Belvieu wholesale benchmark at $0.72 per gallon (daily spot). State residential prices in that last survey ranged from $1.64/gal in Nebraska to $4.71/gal in Florida, and the freshest live summer reading is Massachusetts's state survey at $3.60/gal (13 July 2026).
Wholesale Trend: Last 60 Trading Days
Mont Belvieu, TX daily spot (EIA). Wholesale moves first; residential retail follows with a 4-8 week lag.
Source: EIA Mont Belvieu propane spot price series, latest reading 13 July 2026. Refreshed daily at 02:00 UTC.
The Residential Number, and Why It Is Dated March
Read the date before you trust any "current" residential price. EIA's weekly residential propane survey (SHOPP) runs October through March only. The figures above are the final release of the 2025/26 heating season, week ending 30 March 2026. EIA pauses weekly publication April through September; the next release is expected 7 October 2026. Between now and then, the only current propane prices anywhere are the daily wholesale benchmark above and the handful of state summer surveys below. Most sites keep serving the March number without saying so.
Summer 2026 State Propane Surveys: Who Is Actually Publishing
We track every US state energy office that publishes residential propane prices through the EIA off-season. Live rows are re-scraped daily from each state's own site (last scrape 21 July 2026). Paused rows are honest negatives: we checked, and no summer figure is published.
| State | Latest residential price | As of | Survey cadence | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | $3.92 | July 1, 2026 | monthly Apr-Sep, weekly Oct-Mar | Live in summer | New Hampshire Department of Energy |
| Massachusetts | $3.60 | 13 July 2026 | monthly Apr-Sep, weekly Oct-Mar | Live in summer | Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) |
| New York | $3.19 | June 29, 2026 (last captured) | bi-weekly Apr-Aug, weekly Sep-Mar | Live survey, latest scrape failed | New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) |
| Maine | $3.17 | July 13, 2026 | bi-weekly May-Aug, weekly Sep-Apr | Live in summer | Maine Governor's Energy Office |
| Vermont | $2.99 | June 2026 | monthly Apr-Sep (posted first Monday), weekly Oct-Mar | Live in summer | Vermont Department of Public Service |
| Wisconsin | none published | paused until October | winter only (Oct-Mar) | Paused for summer | Public Service Commission of Wisconsin |
| Minnesota | none published | paused until October | winter only (Oct-Mar) | Paused for summer | Minnesota Department of Commerce |
| Iowa | none published | paused until October | winter only (Oct-Mar) | Paused for summer | Iowa state energy office (SHOPP) via EIA |
| Illinois | none published | paused until October | winter only (Oct-Mar) | Paused for summer | Illinois state energy office (SHOPP) via EIA |
| Missouri | none published | paused until October | winter only (Oct-Mar) | Paused for summer | Missouri Department of Natural Resources |
Live rows: scraped daily from each state energy office's published survey; the "as of" date is the survey date the state itself publishes. Maine publishes cash prices, which run slightly below EIA's credit-price convention. Vermont's figure is a monthly statewide average. Paused rows checked against each state's site in July 2026; sources linked per row. No figure on this page is estimated or interpolated except where explicitly labelled as an estimate.
From Wholesale Benchmark to Your Delivered Price
Mont Belvieu, TX is the hub where US propane is priced at wholesale. Your delivered residential price adds pipeline and truck transport, local storage, and the retailer's margin on top of that spot price, which is why a homeowner never pays anything close to the wholesale number some sites present as "today's propane price".
How big is that gap? Over the 26 weeks of the 2025/26 heating season where both series published (October 2025 through March 2026), EIA's national residential price averaged $1.91/gal above the weekly mean of the Mont Belvieu daily spot, ranging from $1.77 to $2.06. That figure is arithmetic over published EIA data, not an industry rule of thumb.
Estimate only: it applies the heating-season relationship to a summer spot price. Summer delivered prices typically run below this band because demand is at its annual low. The live state surveys above are actual published prices; prefer them where your state has one.
Propane Prices Today: FAQ
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