WTI crude oil price, daily, 1986 to 2026
WTI crude oil price, daily stood at $70 in 2026, down 0.2% on the previous period.
West Texas Intermediate is the benchmark grade for US crude oil, and its spot price at Cushing, Oklahoma is the number quoted when Americans say the price of oil. This page tracks it at daily resolution: 1,374 trading days from January 2021 through July 6, 2026, when a barrel settled at $69.60. Each cell in the calendar is one trading day, colored by that day's price on a single scale that spans the whole window, so a hot streak in one year is directly comparable to a hot streak in another.
How it is measured
The price is the daily spot quote for WTI delivered at Cushing, compiled by the US Energy Information Administration and republished by the St. Louis Fed as FRED series DCOILWTICO. It is a cash market price, not a futures settlement, and there is one observation per trading day: weekends and market holidays are the empty cells.
What the calendar shows
The window opens at its low, $47.47 on January 4, 2021, climbs through the post-pandemic demand recovery, and peaks at $123.64 on March 8, 2022, in the two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine. The deep-colored band across spring 2022 is that shock. Prices then bleed back through 2023 and 2024 as supply reroutes, and the recent years sit in the 60s and 70s, closer to the decade's norm than to either extreme. Use the year control to step between years; the color scale stays fixed so the comparison is honest.
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