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UK fuel prices, by the numbers.

Name: UK forecourt fuel price averages
Creator: Tank Prices
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Today’s figures in plain sentences, the government’s weekly averages, and downloads for your own analysis.

Figures from the Tank Prices feed checked 17 Oct 2026, 06:32 UK time.

Key figures

Simple averages of reporting stations, not weighted by sales. Updated 17 Oct 2026, 06:32 UK time.

At 06:32 on 17 October 2026, the average reported price of unleaded (E10) across 7,875 UK stations is 174.2p a litre.
Diesel (B7) averages 199.2p a litre across 7,989 stations, 25.0p more than unleaded.
Filling a 55-litre family car with unleaded costs about £95.81 at the average price.
Motorway services charge 17.0p a litre more for unleaded than other forecourts on average — about £9.35 on a 55-litre fill-up. Details
Supermarket forecourts are cheaper than the forecourts around them at 78% of sites, by a median of 1.8p a litre. Like for like, Sainsbury’s is the cheapest brand open to all drivers. Brand league table
In the 24 hours to 06:32, 902 forecourts changed 1,741 prices. Of the moves Tank Prices tracked, 79% were cuts. Market pulse
Northern Ireland has the lowest average unleaded price (166.9p) and Scotland the highest (175.2p).

Week-on-week movement appears once Tank Prices has seven days of daily averages.

The government’s weekly figures

For the week of 12 October 2026, the official UK averages were 175.3p a litre for petrol (0.4p higher than the week before) and 200.0p for diesel (0.5p higher).

Source: GOV.UK weekly road fuel prices. The government’s survey uses a different method from Tank Prices’ station averages, so the two figures differ. See the long-term trend on the UK prices page.

Downloads

CSV, UTF-8, prices in pence per litre. Refreshed with every import.

Town averagesEvery town with at least 5 reporting stations, by fuel grade. UK and country averagesEngland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and UK, by fuel grade. Daily UK averagesOne row per day, country and grade since Tank Prices began recording.

Using these figures

Please credit “Tank Prices analysis of UK Fuel Finder data” and link to tankprices.com where you can, for example: “Tank Prices analysis of UK Fuel Finder data, checked 06:32, 17 October 2026 UK time. https://tankprices.com/fuel-price-data” The underlying prices are public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These are prices reported by retailers, with each station weighted equally. They are not what drivers paid on average, and are separate from the government’s official weekly survey above. Read how Tank Prices works for the method and its limits.