US average price for a pound of bananas: $0.656/lb for September 2026 (BLS, the public shelf-price survey behind the official CPI, published monthly with the CPI), -2.1% vs a year ago. The freshest public line is Nowflation's index of USDA-reported advertised prices for fresh fruits and vegetables (the whole category, not bananas alone): 60.9 for September 2026, a monthly index built from USDA's weekly grocery feature reports (+1.1% against the same weeks last year). Next BLS update: November 10, 2026, with the October 2026 CPI.
Retail banana prices fell 2.1% over the past year to $0.656/lb (September 2026), and the price is +10% versus five years ago, and 2% below the record high of $0.670/lb set in September 2025. The freshest read, Nowflation's index of USDA-reported advertised prices for fresh fruits and vegetables (the whole category, not bananas alone), rose 0.2% from August 2026 to September 2026 and sits +1.1% against the same weeks last year.
This page charts the full history of the BLS price back to 2007; and Nowflation's index of USDA-reported advertised prices for fresh fruits and vegetables (the whole category, not bananas alone). The Build-Your-Cart tool combines these staples into your personal basket, the farm-to-shelf page shows where the retail dollar goes, and the full price history is downloadable as JSON and CSV from the series page.
The US city average is $0.656/lb for September 2026, from the BLS Average Price survey — the shelf prices behind the CPI — -2.1% from a year earlier. The fresher line is Nowflation's index of USDA-reported advertised prices for fresh fruits and vegetables (the whole category, not bananas alone): 60.9 for September 2026, a monthly index built from USDA's weekly grocery feature reports (+1.1% against the same weeks last year). The BLS figure is monthly, so "today" on this page means the latest published month, not this morning.
Retail banana prices fell 2.1% over the past year to $0.656/lb (September 2026), and the price is +10% versus five years ago, and 2% below the record high of $0.670/lb set in September 2025. The freshest read, Nowflation's index of USDA-reported advertised prices for fresh fruits and vegetables (the whole category, not bananas alone), rose 0.2% from August 2026 to September 2026 and sits +1.1% against the same weeks last year.
BLS average prices for October 2026 publish with the CPI on November 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM Eastern. The advertised-price index adds a month once the month has ended and USDA's weekly feature reports for it are in; this page republishes every morning with whatever is newest.
BLS; USDA AMS weekly grocery feature reports (MyMarketNews), from which Nowflation builds the advertised-price index. Every series is charted with its full history on this page and listed with its source in the open data directory; the public-data series also download there.