{"id":217326,"date":"2026-04-03T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:42:05","slug":"miami-area-gas-jumps-to-4-ahead-of-easter-weekend-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217326\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-area gas jumps to $4+ ahead of Easter weekend travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gas prices in Miami and across Florida hit $4 a gallon this week \u2014 and have been surging since.<\/p>\n<p>Prices on Friday, April 3, are up by double digits as drivers prepare to hit the road for Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of gas in the state on Friday was $4.22, a 27-cent jump since Monday. The Miami-area also saw a jump on Friday to $4.15.<\/p>\n<p>The average price in Miami and Florida crossed the $4 boundary on Tuesday for the first time in three years. Fort Lauderdale and the West Palm Beach area hit $4 a gallon earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a breakdown on where prices stand:<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices in South Florida<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade: The average price: $4.15 on Friday, an increase from $3.93 on Monday, according to AAA.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale: $4.25, an increase from $4.01.<\/p>\n<p>West Palm Beach\/Boca Raton: $4.35, an increase from $4.12.<\/p>\n<p>Florida price at the pump<\/p>\n<p>Average: The average price for a gallon of gas in Florida on Friday, according to AAA, is $4.22, up from $3.95 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. price at the pump<\/p>\n<p>Average: The average price for a gallon of gas across the country on Friday, according to AAA, was $4.09, up from $3.99 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>How to find cheap gas near you<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an app to help: The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gasbuddy.com\/\">GasBuddy<\/a> app was built to show motorists prices around them and a fuel tracker can update users on stations that have or don\u2019t have fuel based on supply changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gas prices in Miami and across Florida hit $4 a gallon this week \u2014 and have been surging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-217326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}