State prices
Near normalMassachusetts propane prices
Current residential price: $3.717/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
- Massachusetts
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.717/gal, 6.8% above the 5-yr median.
Massachusetts residential propane reads $3.717/gal, 6.8% above the 5-year median. The price is up 1.6% on the week and up 10.9% year over year.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.717/gal | $3.659/gal | +1.6% |
| Year over year | $3.717/gal | $3.353/gal | +10.9% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.717/gal | $3.480/gal | +6.8% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.596/gal | $3.500/gal (Oct 12) | $3.717/gal (Oct 26) | -23.0 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.413/gal | $3.313/gal (Nov 10) | $3.649/gal (Mar 30) | -15.1 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.593/gal | $3.409/gal (Oct 7) | $3.731/gal (Feb 17) | -5.8 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.494/gal | $3.383/gal (Oct 9) | $3.654/gal (Feb 19) | +5.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.548/gal | $3.478/gal (Jan 16) | $3.622/gal (Oct 17) | -3.4 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.621/gal | $3.453/gal (Oct 4) | $3.935/gal (Mar 14) | +0.3 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 Massachusetts's residential price minus the New England residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 126,133 |
| Share of occupied homes | 4.5% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 2,785,042 |
| National rank by propane share | #32 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Massachusetts residential propane reached $3.659/gal, up 4.5% on the week and 6.7% above a year ago. Pricing sits 5.4% above the 5-yr median.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Massachusetts residential propane sat at $3.500/gal through October 12, easing 0.2% on the week. The price runs 1.7% above the 5-year median and 4.4% higher than year-ago.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Massachusetts residential propane stood at $3.649/gal in the Mar 30 survey, 0.4% above the 4-yr median and 0.4% below the year-ago price. Prices have risen 5.0% over the past four weeks as the heating season winds down.
About Massachusetts propane prices
More than half of Massachusetts homes heat with natural gas and a large share of the rest still burn heating oil, which leaves propane serving the towns and outer suburbs the mains never reached, plus a steady load of cooking, water heating and standby generators. The state has no propane production and no trunk pipeline: supply arrives by ship, rail and truck through coastal and river terminals. A hard cold snap here is a logistics problem before it is a supply problem.
The price above comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, which surveys a sample of retail dealers in Massachusetts once a week and publishes the state average on Wednesday afternoon. It runs October through March only, so nothing new prints between April and September. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Massachusetts, 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 4.5% of occupied Massachusetts homes, below the national middle.
The regional numbers around this price are New England propane prices and New England propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. Estimate your fill cost with the propane usage calculator, which works from tank size, gauge reading and what the household burns.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Massachusetts?
Massachusetts's residential propane price is $3.717/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 Massachusetts?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Massachusetts's residential price set its season high in February in two of the last five heating seasons, March in two and October in one. The season low came in October in three of the last five heating seasons, November in one and January in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 31.1 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 Massachusetts propane price compare with the New England average?
Over the last five heating seasons, Massachusetts's residential propane price averaged above the New England average in two and below it in three. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Massachusetts was at $3.717/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 Massachusetts?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Massachusetts, 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.