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Butter prices this week

−$0.20 vs last week −13.7% vs a year ago

1 lb, conventional · USDA-reported store count 11,010 · ads for the week of Oct 19, 2026

Butter prices by region

The last 52 weeks

52-week low $3.07, high $4.62.

Butter prices since 2014

Ad prices are sale prices, so they usually sit below the BLS average retail price, which includes both sale and regular prices. How closely the two track each other varies by item: see the checks.

Good time to buy?

Low line this season: $3.31/lb (US). The latest average ad price, $3.57, is above it. In past weeks at or below the line, the ad price fell more than 2% further within 4 weeks 37.4% of the time, compared with 70.3% of all weeks (131 weeks over 10 years). That isn't rare enough to call it a good price outright.

In October, neither buying now nor waiting a week has had a dependable edge for butter (tested over 1 years).

The line is set each week from the same season in the previous 3 years, scaled to recent prices; both results come from tests that only use data available at the time. Check a store price · How these are tested.

Best time of year to buy

We haven't found a calendar pattern strong enough to plan around for butter: the months that looked lowest-priced in earlier years came in below the trend in 6 of 8 later years, by 2.0% on average.

Descriptive pattern, all years: each month's average advertised sale price compared with the item's average over the 13 months around it (so inflation and price spikes don't tilt it), 2014 through April 2026. Below zero = lower than the trend. Months less than 6 months old aren't measured yet. A month is named only if this method, picking from earlier years alone, came in below the trend in at least 80% of at least 8 later years, by at least 2% on average, with no more than 4 months picked (claims policy v1).Every year's picks and results.

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