State prices
Above normalConnecticut propane prices
Current residential price: $4.315/gal. EIA weekly survey (October-March).
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
Cite
- Residential
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Connecticut
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $4.315/gal, 17.6% above the 5-yr median.
Connecticut residential propane reached $4.315/gal as of October 26, up 2.1% from the previous week and 17.6% above the 5-year median. The year-ago comparison sits at $3.705/gal, a 16.5% move higher.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $4.315/gal | $4.226/gal | +2.1% |
| Year over year | $4.315/gal | $3.705/gal | +16.5% |
| vs 5-yr median | $4.315/gal | $3.670/gal | +17.6% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $4.232/gal | $4.173/gal (Oct 5) | $4.315/gal (Oct 26) | +40.6 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.828/gal | $3.685/gal (Oct 20) | $4.116/gal (Mar 30) | +26.4 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.922/gal | $3.644/gal (Oct 14) | $4.208/gal (Mar 3) | +27.1 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.694/gal | $3.568/gal (Nov 27) | $3.842/gal (Feb 19) | +25.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.744/gal | $3.658/gal (Oct 17) | $3.857/gal (Jan 30) | +16.3 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.739/gal | $3.548/gal (Oct 4) | $4.220/gal (Mar 28) | +12.1 cents |
Each season runs October through March. The average is the simple mean of that season's weekly readings, and the low and high name their survey week. The last column is Connecticut's residential price minus the New England residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 83,635 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.8% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 1,434,007 |
| National rank by propane share | #23 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Connecticut residential propane stands at $4.226/gal, 15.5% above the 5-year median for this time of year. Prices have risen 14.7% from a year ago as heating season opens.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Connecticut residential propane stands at $4.116/gal in the EIA survey dated Mar 30, 2026, 3.7% above the four-year median. Year over year the price is down 0.4%.
About Connecticut propane prices
Connecticut has no gas processing and no propane trunk pipeline. Barrels arrive at coastal and river terminals by ship and rail, then reach dealers by truck, so a New England cold snap shows up in delivery schedules here faster than it does in the Midwest. Heating oil still heats far more Connecticut homes than propane does, which leaves propane concentrated in the towns and newer subdivisions beyond the gas mains.
This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Connecticut propane dealers weekly through the October to March heating season and publishes the state figure Wednesday afternoon; the series then goes quiet until October. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Connecticut, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the East Coast price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 5.8% of occupied Connecticut homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
The regional numbers around this price are New England propane prices and New England propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. A price per gallon is not a delivery ticket. The propane usage calculator estimates gallons burned and what a fill costs at the current Connecticut survey price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Connecticut?
Connecticut's residential propane price is $4.315/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in Connecticut?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Connecticut's residential price set its season high in March in three of the last five heating seasons, January in one and February in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and November in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 42.8 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that New England has no propane production and no trunk pipeline of its own, so a cold snap here shows up first as a delivery problem: barrels arriving by ship, rail and truck against a small storage base. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the Connecticut propane price compare with the New England average?
Connecticut's residential propane price averaged above the New England average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 12.1 cents and 27.1 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Connecticut was at $4.315/gal against $3.917/gal for the New England average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and New England propane prices carries the district's own chart.
Why is there no wholesale propane price for Connecticut?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Connecticut, so the chart above carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the East Coast price page, and the Mont Belvieu spot price is the national wholesale benchmark. How propane is priced walks through the delivered-service stack that separates a rack gallon from a delivered one.