{"id":280645,"date":"2026-05-22T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:29:08","slug":"memorial-day-gas-surge-miami-and-south-florida-prices-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/280645\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day gas surge: Miami and South Florida prices rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hitting the road for the long Memorial Day weekend? You\u2019ll be paying more to fill up the car.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 22, prices in South Florida were up by double digits from the start of the week, when prices had plunged from the week before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs holiday travelers start hitting the road today in record numbers, Memorial Day weekend gas prices are the highest they\u2019ve been in four years,\u201d AAA said in a briefing on holiday travel. \u201cWith gasoline demand on the rise and the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, pump prices are likely to remain elevated as the summer travel season gets underway.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what to know:<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/traffic.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"traffic.jpg\" alt=\"Follow the gas price trends in Florida.\"\/>                                                                                    Follow the gas price trends in Florida.                                                                                    Gas prices in South Florida<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade: The average price: $4.47 on Friday, May 22, a 20-cent increase since Monday, according to AAA.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale: $4.51, a 26-cent increase since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>West Palm Beach\/Boca Raton: $4.61, a 20-cent increase since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Keys: $4.72, a 26-cent increase since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida price at the pump<\/p>\n<p>Average: The average price for a gallon of gas in Florida on Friday, May 22, according to AAA, is $4.47, a 26-cent increase since 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, May 22, according to AAA, is $4.55, a 4-cent increase since 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<p>        Follow More of Our Reporting on  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hitting the road for the long Memorial Day weekend? You\u2019ll be paying more to fill up the car.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-280645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280645","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=280645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}