Montana Gas Prices Have Risen Every Week of 2025

Missoula, MT (KGVO-AM News) - At the end of 2024, Montana gasoline prices dropped 20 out of the last 22 weeks. To start 2025, prices have increased seven weeks in a row. Patrick De Haan is the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy and he provided the current numbers.

“Average gasoline prices in Montana have risen 5.1 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.04 per gallon today,” De Haan said. “Prices in Montana are 18.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 7.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.”

As of Monday morning, many stations in Missoula had their prices set to around $3.09 per gallon.

According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Montana was priced at $2.84 per gallon yesterday while the most expensive was $3.40 per gallon.

Montana is currently ranked 19th in the U.S. when it comes to the average price of gas, which is eight spots higher than last week.

“The national average price of gasoline has risen 2.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.11 per gallon today,” De Haan said. “The national average is unchanged from a month ago and stands 16.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has increased 0.8 cents in the last week and stands at $3.63 per gallon.”

De Haan said the national average has inched higher, driven primarily by sharp gas price increases on the West Coast, where refinery maintenance and outages have created a ripple effect in neighboring states, pushing prices higher in many communities.

"Although the surge remains isolated to the West for now, refinery maintenance will soon begin in other regions, and with the transition to summer gasoline blends underway, prices in most areas are likely to start rising in the weeks ahead,” De Haan said. “Meanwhile, oil prices remain subdued in the low $70s as President Trump works on a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine— an event that, if realized, could have significant implications for oil markets in the months ahead."

LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

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