# Midwest (PADD 2) diesel price $5.636/gal for the week of Aug 24, 2026. Up 20.1 cents on the week. EIA weekly on-highway survey, priced as of Monday. _Data through Aug 24, 2026 · source last checked Aug 25, 2026 · page revised Aug 25, 2026_ > Now $5.636/gal, 52% above the 5-yr median. The Midwest pump price hit $5.636/gal for the week of Aug 24, up 3.7% from the prior week. The region sits 52% above the five-year median for the same calendar week. ## The numbers | Period | Current | Prior | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Week over week | $5.636/gal | $5.435/gal | +3.7% | | vs 4 weeks ago | $5.636/gal | $5.196/gal | +8.5% | | Year over year | $5.636/gal | $3.698/gal | +52.4% | | vs 5-yr median | $5.636/gal | $3.698/gal | +52.4% | ## About Midwest (PADD 2) diesel price Stretching from Ohio and Michigan west through the Dakotas and Kansas and south through Oklahoma and Tennessee, the Midwest is EIA's PADD 2, the largest of the five districts by state count. The region refines a substantial share of what it burns and draws crude by pipeline from Canada and the Bakken, which leaves it largely insulated from the waterborne import costs that push up the coasts, so its price usually sits close to the national number rather than carrying a persistent premium or discount. The tradeoff is redundancy: an unplanned outage at one of the region's refineries can spike the local price sharply, if temporarily, in a way the more heavily refined Gulf Coast rarely sees. Demand also swings with the farm calendar, running highest during spring planting and fall harvest. The crude side is what makes PADD 2 unusual. Midwest refineries run heavily on Canadian crude arriving by pipeline from Alberta and on Bakken barrels out of North Dakota, rather than on waterborne imports. That gives the region a feedstock cost that can move independently of global crude, and it is why Midwest product prices sometimes diverge from the coasts for reasons that have nothing to do with refining margins. [What are PADDs](/guides/what-are-padds) covers how the districts differ on exactly this kind of structural point. Freight demand is the other distinguishing feature. This is the crossroads district: Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, Memphis and Kansas City are the country's main truckload interchanges, and a very large share of the miles driven in the Midwest are through-miles rather than local ones. Diesel demand here therefore tracks national freight activity more closely than regional economic activity does, which is worth remembering before reading a Midwest price move as a Midwest story. Two seasonal loads sit on top of that. Spring planting and fall harvest put farm equipment and grain hauling on the same fuel at the same time across the Corn Belt, and winter cold-flow requirements push northern terminals onto blended fuel from roughly October through March. Neither is large next to the trucking base, but both arrive on a schedule and both land in the same weeks the pipelines from the Gulf are moving winter-grade product north. The [Midwest vs. the US average](/spreads/midwest) page shows how that plays out against the national figure. ## About this data - Source: EIA Weekly Retail On-Highway Diesel Price survey - Series: On-highway retail diesel, No. 2 - Basis: On-highway retail pump, taxed - Geography: Midwest (PADD 2) - Unit: $/gal - Calculation period: Weekly survey, priced as of Monday - Last observation: Aug 24, 2026 - Update frequency: Weekly --- Cite: Midwest (PADD 2) on-highway diesel averaged $5.636/gal for the week of Aug 24, 2026 (EIA). Monday Diesel. https://mondaydiesel.com/region/midwest Canonical URL: https://mondaydiesel.com/region/midwest