# Monday Diesel > The Monday diesel number for people who get paid by the mile. EIA's Monday on-highway diesel price is the most widely used public benchmark for US trucking fuel surcharges. We publish it with the context that matters per mile: regional spreads, the pump-over-spot gap, and cost per mile at a stated 6.5 mpg reference. One brief a week. No forecasts, no buy signals. _Data through Aug 24, 2026._ ## Latest issue: DOE Diesel at $5.652, Gulf Coast the Week's Biggest Mover (Aug 25, 2026) The DOE number rose 19.8 cents to $5.652/gal for the week of August 24, the index fuel-surcharge schedules peg to. At the stated 6.5 mpg reference, that is 87.0 cents a mile and about $15.23 more per 500-mile haul. Read: https://mondaydiesel.com/issues/2026-08-25 · Markdown: https://mondaydiesel.com/issues/2026-08-25.md ## The data ### The DOE number EIA's Monday-priced on-highway diesel number, the benchmark most fuel surcharges peg to. - [This week's DOE on-highway diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/number/doe-diesel-price.md) — $5.652/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) ### Regions On-highway diesel by PADD, East Coast subregion and California, week over week. - [California diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/california.md) — $7.040/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Central Atlantic (PADD 1B) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/central-atlantic.md) — $5.840/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [East Coast (PADD 1) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/east-coast.md) — $5.498/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Gulf Coast (PADD 3) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/gulf-coast.md) — $5.481/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/lower-atlantic.md) — $5.350/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Midwest (PADD 2) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/midwest.md) — $5.636/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [New England (PADD 1A) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/new-england.md) — $5.716/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/rocky-mountain.md) — $5.537/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [West Coast (PADD 5) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/west-coast.md) — $6.407/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [West Coast except California (PADD 5) diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/region/west-coast-except-california.md) — $5.859/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) ### Spot Daily ULSD spot at New York Harbor and the Gulf Coast, the wholesale layer under the pump. - [Gulf Coast ULSD spot price](https://mondaydiesel.com/spot/gulf-coast.md) — $4.422/gal (as of Aug 18, 2026) - [New York Harbor ULSD spot price](https://mondaydiesel.com/spot/new-york-harbor.md) — $4.550/gal (as of Aug 18, 2026) ### Crude oil Daily WTI and Brent crude spot, the upstream cost that drives roughly half the pump price. - [Brent crude oil price](https://mondaydiesel.com/crude/brent.md) — $95.29/bbl (as of Aug 18, 2026) - [Diesel price vs crude oil](https://mondaydiesel.com/crude/diesel-vs-crude.md) — $3.405/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [WTI crude oil price](https://mondaydiesel.com/crude/wti.md) — $86.48/bbl (as of Aug 18, 2026) ### Spreads Each region's pump price minus the US average, in cents per gallon, plus West vs Gulf. - [California vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/california.md) — +138.8 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Central Atlantic (PADD 1B) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/central-atlantic.md) — +18.8 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [East Coast (PADD 1) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/east-coast.md) — -15.4 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Gulf Coast (PADD 3) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/gulf-coast.md) — -17.1 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/lower-atlantic.md) — -30.2 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Midwest (PADD 2) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/midwest.md) — -1.6 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [New England (PADD 1A) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/new-england.md) — +6.4 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Rocky Mountain (PADD 4) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/rocky-mountain.md) — -11.5 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [West Coast (PADD 5) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/west-coast.md) — +75.5 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [West Coast except California (PADD 5) vs the US average](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/west-coast-except-california.md) — +20.7 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [West Coast vs Gulf Coast](https://mondaydiesel.com/spreads/west-vs-gulf.md) — +92.6 cents/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) ### Pump vs spot Retail minus the nearest-business-day ULSD spot, the pump-over-wholesale proxy (includes taxes). - [East Coast pump price vs New York Harbor spot](https://mondaydiesel.com/margin/padd1-vs-new-york-harbor.md) — $0.808/gal (as of Aug 17, 2026) - [US pump price vs Gulf Coast spot](https://mondaydiesel.com/margin/us-vs-gulf-coast.md) — $1.049/gal (as of Aug 17, 2026) ### Cost per mile The DOE number translated to fuel cost per mile at a stated 6.5 mpg reference. - [Diesel fuel cost per mile](https://mondaydiesel.com/costpermile/diesel-cost-per-mile.md) — 87.0 cents/mi (as of Aug 24, 2026) ### Why prices are moving Why the DOE number is rising or falling right now, updated every week the data moves. - [Why are diesel prices falling right now?](https://mondaydiesel.com/why/diesel-prices-falling.md) — Not the current direction (as of Aug 24, 2026) - [Why are diesel prices rising right now?](https://mondaydiesel.com/why/diesel-prices-rising.md) — $5.652/gal, the current story (as of Aug 24, 2026) ### Current price The current US average diesel price in one sentence: the number, the move and what drives it. - [Current diesel price](https://mondaydiesel.com/current-price/diesel.md) — $5.652/gal (as of Aug 24, 2026) ## More - [Key statistics](https://mondaydiesel.com/stats.md) - 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