Scheduled official release

Dec 10, 2026 Consumer Price Index the CPI report

Name: Consumer Price Index
Start: 2026-12-10T13:30:00.000Z

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar lists Consumer Price Index, the CPI report, for 8:30 AM EST on Thursday, Dec 10, 2026. The previous entry was Nov 10, 2026.

Every CPI report release date 23 dates on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar, with the next one always at the top

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Scheduled release time Dec 10, 2026 8:30 AM EST Thursday Ahead of the last collection run

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Release window

Where Consumer Price Index lands in the trading day

8:30 AM

4:00 AM 9:30 AM open 4:00 PM close 8:00 PM

1 hour before the 9:30 AM Eastern U.S. equity open, so the figure is public before the first trade of the session rather than during it.

What it measures

Consumer Price Index, in one paragraph

The Consumer Price Index measures the average change over time in the prices urban consumers pay for a fixed basket of goods and services. It is the number most U.S. inflation adjustments, cost-of-living clauses, and real-wage calculations are built on.

What JMM reads first

The headline year-over-year rate is what gets reported and the component detail is what changes a decision. Shelter and services turn slowly, energy turns fast, and the two can point in opposite directions inside one print, which is how an index can look soft in aggregate while every category a household actually buys keeps rising. Read the components before you read the headline, and check which month is being annualised before you compare anything to a forecast.

The series this release carries

Where consumer price index for all urban consumers: all items, u.s. city average stands right now

JMM's latest reading of this series covers the July 2026 reference period, read straight from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics public API on the collection run below. The reference period is the month a value describes, not the day it was published, and the two are never the same month for a series like this one.

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All items, U.S. city average

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333.918 index, 1982-84=100, July 2026

Previous reference period: 333.952 in June 2026
Change between them: -0.034 index, 1982-84=100
Against the same month a year earlier: +3.4%
JMM retrieval: Aug 12, 2026, 9:17 PM EDT

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The published run

What annual inflation has actually measured, 2006 to 2025

This release publishes the monthly index. The annual averages below are the same series, averaged over each calendar year, which is the basis every published inflation adjustment and the JMM inflation calculator run on.

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The fastest year in this window was 2022, at +8.0%. Only 2009 fell, at -0.4%. 2025 came in at +2.6%, on an index level of 321.943 (index, 1982-84=100). Annual averages, so a single hot month does not read as a year.

Run any two of these years against each otherThe JMM inflation calculator uses this exact file, so a figure you get there reconciles with the chart above.

CUUR0000SA0 annual average, retrieved Aug 14, 2026, 8:18 AM EDT from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/cu.data.1.AllItems. SHA-256 over the response bytes: 9baac9eb2fd78f4510a7edeb2c2d23abfbe0c4d4482febe54f415852e19dddf7

The month around this date

The BLS release calendar for December 2026

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1314 15 16 2 17 18 2 19

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The BLS calendar carries 14 releases across 10 days of December 2026. The heaviest day is the 2nd, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.

The run of dates

Date 23 of the 23 Consumer Price Index entries JMM holds

Jan 15, 2025 Dec 10, 2026

The source calendar puts these 23 dates a median of 30 days apart. This one falls 30 days after the previous entry. The widest interval in the run is 55 days, between Oct 24, 2025 and Dec 18, 2025.

Previous Consumer Price Index Nov 10, 2026 30 days before this one

Next Consumer Price Index Not yet published The source calendar carried no later date at the last collection, which is what it supplied rather than a statement that the release has ended.

Event record

Every clock JMM stores for this record

Status: ScheduledThe official source calendar lists this release ahead of the last collection run.
Effective period: Not specified by source
Scheduled time: Dec 10, 2026, 8:30 AM EST
JMM retrieval: Aug 12, 2026, 9:17 PM EDT
Forecast connection: None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.

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What to do with this release

Guide What the CPI release actually measures What the index covers, what it leaves out, and which rate is being quoted at you. Calculator Inflation calculator Runs on the published CPI-U annual averages this release extends. Calculator Raise vs inflation calculator Compounds a pay history against realised CPI-U to find the year real pay peaked. On the record Kenneth Griffin Said in November 2023 that deglobalization could keep inflation elevated for decades. This is the series that measures it. Method How JMM keeps release clocks apart Why the publication, effective, observation, and retrieval clocks are stored as four different facts.

Same release minute

One other release lands at the same instant

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The release clock

BLS publishes at 2 times of day, and this is one of them

10:00 AM ET 174
8:30 AM ET 139

Every one of the 313 dated BLS entries JMM holds lands on one of these 2 clock times. This release uses the quieter of the two: 139 entries across 7 releases, 44% of the calendar. It is a pre-open slot: the figures are public before the U.S. equity session starts. Read in UTC the same slot would look like 2 different habits, because the published file carries a real timezone: the release holds 8:30 AM Eastern through daylight saving and it is the UTC instant that moves. Grouping on the publisher's own clock is what keeps that one habit one row.

Put this release to work

Inflation calculatorThe published CPI-U series applied to your own money, in the years you care about.

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