Corrected · updated through July 2026

US inflation climbed to a 4.25% peak in May 2026, then eased to 3.36% by July

Question asked: the earlier chart stopped at 2025 — show the full 24-month record including 2026. This corrected version plots every month from August 2024 through July 2026.

24 monthly readings of headline CPI-U 12-month inflation, in percent; October 2025 has no published observation and appears as a gap.

Inflation rose from 2.39% in January 2026 to a 24-month high of 4.25% in May 2026 — a 1.86-point climb in four months. inflationdata.com
It then eased two months in a row, to 3.53% in June and 3.36% in July 2026. inflationdata.com
The calmest stretch was spring 2025: 2.31% in April, the lowest of the 24 months. inflationdata.com
October 2025 is a genuine gap — no CPI observation was published for that month, so the line breaks rather than interpolates. inflationdata.com
MonthInflation (12-mo %)NoteSource
2024-082.53%inflationdata.com
2024-092.44%inflationdata.com
2024-102.60%inflationdata.com
2024-112.75%inflationdata.com
2024-122.89%inflationdata.com
2025-013.00%inflationdata.com
2025-022.82%inflationdata.com
2025-032.39%inflationdata.com
2025-042.31%inflationdata.com
2025-052.35%inflationdata.com
2025-062.67%inflationdata.com
2025-072.70%inflationdata.com
2025-082.92%inflationdata.com
2025-093.01%inflationdata.com
2025-10No CPI observation publishedinflationdata.com
2025-112.74%inflationdata.com
2025-122.68%inflationdata.com
2026-012.39%inflationdata.com
2026-022.41%inflationdata.com
2026-033.26%inflationdata.com
2026-043.81%inflationdata.com
2026-054.25%inflationdata.com
2026-063.53%inflationdata.com
2026-073.36%inflationdata.com

Headline CPI-U, all items, 12-month percent change; 24 monthly rows covering Aug 2024–Jul 2026, taken verbatim from the Annual Inflation Table published 12 Aug 2026 on inflationdata.com. Oct 2025 had no published observation and is left blank. Nothing was cut.

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