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Average Price Data, AP (APU0000711211) · Bananas, per lb. (453.6 gm), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted

What does a pound of bananas cost in the US?

The average price of a pound of bananas was $0.655 in the month ended .

Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1980 to October 2026Not seasonally adjusted, as published

Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1980 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (October 2016 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, each month (October 2024 to October 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1980 to October 2026Ours, from the published values

Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1980 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (October 2016 to October 2026), recessions shaded
Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (October 2024 to October 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

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MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average$0.655$0.656$0.670$0.600$0.570
Change over a yearn/a−2.1%+8.6%+4.0%−1.2%

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Observed .

Right now

The average price of a pound of bananas was $0.655 in October 2026, the lowest since August 2026.

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month$0.656 in −0.2%
Three months$0.650 in +0.8%
Twelve monthsNo value for
Five years$0.600 in +9.2%
Ten years$0.570 in +14.9%

In historyOurs

The average price of a pound of bananas of $0.655 in was higher than in 550 of the 558 other months since , the same in 1 and lower in 7.

Highest since : $0.670 in . Lowest since : $0.315 in .

AverageOurs

Average since : $0.5105 (ours, a plain mean of the 559 months).

Understanding the average price of a pound of bananas

Where it stands today

The average price of a pound of bananas was $0.655 in October 2026.

What does the average price of a pound of bananas measure?

This is the average price of a pound of bananas in the United States: a series of the average price data of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), for the U.S. city average and not seasonally adjusted. BLS publishes it each month, with the Consumer Price Index, in dollars to three decimals.

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BLS names the item "Bananas, per lb. (453.6 gm)" and the series APU0000711211.

What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest price since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the items in its group on the average prices page, and every month of the series in a table by year.

The numbers behind the chart

What was the average price of a pound of bananas in each month?One row for each year since 1980, newest first

Each row is a year and each column a month. A dash is a month with no price: before the series began, after its newest month, or a month BLS published no price for (the limits name those). The highest and lowest prices of the whole series are in bold.

Average price of a pound of bananas, U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, by month and year, newest year first (US dollars per pound; the highest and lowest prices in bold)
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
20260.6530.6530.6570.6540.6460.6450.6500.6520.6560.655––
20250.6210.6190.6250.6350.6550.6540.6570.6660.670–0.6640.656
20240.6170.6250.6290.6260.6220.6250.6130.6120.6170.6190.6220.615
20230.6390.6410.6320.6350.6280.6250.6310.6310.6250.6260.6270.625
20220.6300.6280.6420.6370.6420.6400.6400.6430.6430.6340.6310.628
20210.5970.5900.5940.6040.6000.5950.5940.5890.5970.6000.6190.622
20200.5700.5740.5760.5810.5890.5880.5800.5760.5740.5770.5780.572
20190.5760.5710.5810.5670.5790.5740.5690.5780.5690.5730.5730.573
20180.5680.5740.5820.5780.5750.5750.5750.5690.5730.5740.5660.577
20170.5730.5730.5710.5710.5640.5720.5650.5610.5440.5480.5510.558
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YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
20160.5810.5730.5860.5740.5700.5690.5670.5620.5750.5700.5730.576
20150.5830.5910.5930.5970.5820.5740.5810.5800.5800.5770.5750.580
20140.5950.5990.5970.5970.6030.6070.6060.6080.6060.5820.5920.585
20130.6090.6110.6090.5970.6030.6030.6020.5950.6010.5860.5870.592
20120.6040.6030.6070.6030.5990.6050.6040.5950.5970.6020.6000.606
20110.5960.6250.6210.6210.6170.6140.6110.6060.6070.6070.5980.599
20100.5860.5870.5750.5800.5710.5770.5830.5760.5730.5800.5810.587
20090.6290.6410.6340.6290.6220.6170.6160.6110.6050.5980.5610.571
20080.5210.5400.5970.6270.6300.6330.6270.6340.6310.6290.6260.617
20070.5050.5070.5100.5170.5030.5120.5090.5060.5050.5080.5150.525
20060.4900.5080.5080.5080.5140.5110.5080.4920.4790.4890.4980.499
20050.4850.5020.5070.5030.4970.4930.4940.4870.4850.4910.4800.482
20040.5120.5040.5000.5050.4910.4980.5100.5070.4880.4850.4690.474
20030.5260.5080.5130.5170.5050.5210.5140.5140.4940.4900.4980.504
20020.5090.5040.5190.5040.5150.5120.5170.4990.4980.5040.5050.504
20010.5000.4960.5100.4920.5090.5060.5230.5190.5080.5030.5090.505
20000.4900.5280.5170.5100.5090.5060.5120.4900.4880.4960.4790.487
19990.4890.5090.5060.4820.4920.5020.4940.4900.4810.4710.4800.494
19980.4730.4890.4750.5110.5100.5070.5300.4890.4760.4700.4870.510
19970.4970.5180.5320.5120.4840.4880.4870.4750.4580.4590.4680.461
19960.4630.5010.5390.5050.5120.4980.4980.4780.4580.4650.4770.481
19950.5030.4960.5080.4850.4830.4900.5220.5120.4900.4710.4620.454
19940.4400.5140.5000.4690.4690.4470.4520.4800.4530.4300.4340.458
19930.4260.4750.4750.4830.4720.4460.4480.4220.3950.4050.4040.414
19920.4280.4930.5170.4840.4450.4630.4310.5090.4590.4420.4220.404
19910.4380.4850.5770.5470.5840.5320.5160.4160.4320.3950.4310.419
19900.4290.4920.5000.4810.4620.4470.5290.4630.4650.4320.4290.430
19890.3940.4150.4500.5230.5220.4790.4560.4340.4280.4320.4350.416
19880.3740.4150.4130.4230.4220.5010.4330.3970.3890.4210.4230.407
1987––0.3760.3810.3570.3900.3500.3670.3630.3460.3430.375
19860.3370.3780.4020.4640.4610.3760.3710.3690.3840.3720.3710.333
19850.3500.3780.3940.4220.3920.3990.3480.3610.3760.3460.3160.321
19840.3440.3730.3730.3890.3540.3910.3860.3620.3500.3410.3330.317
19830.3320.3520.3570.4160.4380.4490.4620.4030.3940.3850.3270.315
19820.3640.3590.3730.3800.3720.3810.3440.3320.3430.3170.3440.337
19810.3430.3660.3770.3770.3790.3690.3410.3510.3580.3640.3550.364
19800.3190.3450.3550.3530.3570.3480.3320.3350.3350.3350.3390.349

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What this number cannot tell you

  • The price is an average of the retail prices that BLS collects from a sample of sellers, for the U.S. city average. It is not a price index. BLS measures the change of prices with the Consumer Price Index, and the change over a year on this page, worked out from the averages, can differ from the change of the index.
  • BLS did not collect prices for October 2025 because of the lapse in appropriations, so the page has no price for that month and the chart shows a gap.
  • BLS published no price for 2 other months: January to February 1987.
  • The changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest prices are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes. A change is in percent.
  • BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.

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How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Average Price Data, Bananas, per lb. (453.6 gm), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted, through October 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What does a pound of bananas cost in the US?", https://500metrics.com/average-prices/bananas.

Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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