A gas pump in San Diego. (Photo by: Alexander Nguyen/Times of San Diego)
While the national average price of regular gasoline sits at $3.08 a gallon as of Nov. 7, 2025, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA), San Diego drivers are once again feeling the pinch at the pump. The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose Friday for the ninth consecutive day, up 1.2 cents to $4.93.
According to figures from AAA and the Oil Price Information Service, the average price has climbed 23.4 cents over the past nine days — including a 2.6-cent increase Thursday and a 7.6-cent jump last Friday, the biggest one-day rise since Sept. 28, 2023.
“The Phillips 66 refinery in Los Angeles is closing at the end of this year and stopped processing crude oil in mid-October, and that loss of capacity along with some planned and unplanned refinery maintenance, caused some supply concerns,” said Doug Shupe, the Automobile Club of Southern California’s corporate communications manager, in a statement released Thursday.
“Usually when gas prices spike, Southern California receives additional imported supplies from Asia and Canada to make up the shortfall. Prices should reverse course and head downward once that happens.”
The current stretch of increases comes after a brief period of relief — eight decreases in nine days that dropped prices by 5.1 cents.
Today’s average is 15 cents higher than a week ago, 15.3 cents higher than a month ago, and 36.2 cents more than this time last year. San Diego drivers are still paying far less than the record $6.434 per gallon set on Oct. 5, 2022, a drop of $1.504 from that all-time high.
Elsewhere across the country, drivers are paying far less. The average price in Kentucky is about $2.68, New York averages around $3.11, and Arizona sits at roughly $3.36 per gallon — all well below what San Diegans are paying.
Nationally, the average price fell slightly — down four-tenths of a cent to $3.08 after three consecutive increases totaling 4.8 cents, including a half-cent rise Thursday. The national average is 4 cents higher than a week ago but 4.1 cents lower than a month ago and 2.6 cents below where it stood last year.
The national average has fallen $1.936 since hitting its record high of $5.016 on June 14, 2022.
— City News Service contributed to this report
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