Spain
Weekly prices
Week 1, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 1 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 1 of 2009 (29 Dec – 4 Jan 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

29 Dec – 4 Jan 2009

Diesel fell by 1.2 cents over the week, to 0.834 €. That is the lowest diesel price since our records began in 2007. Petrol 95 fell by 0.9 cents over the week, to 0.820 €. That is the lowest petrol 95 price since our records began in 2007. A year earlier diesel cost 1.083 €: it is now 24.9 cents cheaper.

Diesel fell most in Melilla (−2.4 cents). Among the large chains, Alcampo had the cheapest diesel at 0.813 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 29 Dec	Mon 5 Jan	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.84⁶	0.83⁴	1.2 ¢	0.83⁹
Petrol 95	0.82⁹	0.82⁰	0.9 ¢	0.82⁴
Petrol 98	0.93⁹	0.93⁵	no change	0.93⁷

The median of all stations at 00:00 Madrid time; the week runs from Monday to Monday (the prices after Sunday).

Diesel and petrol 95 in Spain, last 12 weeks

DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 5 Jan	Change
Fell most
Melilla	0.67⁸	2.4 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0.58⁵	2.4 ¢
Las Palmas	0.59⁷	2.1 ¢
Ceuta	0.64³	1.9 ¢
Burgos	0.82⁵	1.2 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 5 Jan	Change
Fell most
Ceuta	0.60⁹	1.6 ¢
Melilla	0.61⁶	1.6 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0.60⁹	1.2 ¢
Las Palmas	0.61⁷	0.9 ¢
Lleida	0.82⁸	0.7 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	115	0.57⁹ 25.5 ¢	0.60⁵
Alcampo	37	0.81³ 2.1 ¢	0.80⁰
Avia	85	0.82⁷ 0.7 ¢	0.81⁰
Petronor	167	0.82⁷ 0.7 ¢	0.81¹
Campsa	85	0.82⁸ 0.6 ¢	0.81⁶
Agla	52	0.83⁰ median	0.81⁶
Cepsa	606	0.83⁰ median	0.81⁹
Shell	277	0.83³ median	0.81⁷
Moeve	491	0.83⁵ median	0.82²
BP	490	0.83⁶ median	0.82²

* Most of its stations are on the Canary Islands, in Ceuta or Melilla, where fuel taxes are lower.

Chains with at least 30 stations selling diesel; median prices at the end of the week, the difference is to the Spanish median.

Oil and the euro that week

Brent, $ per barrel$ 42.9402.01.2009 · a week earlier: $ 33.73

Brent, € per litre0.195 €02.01.2009 · a week earlier: 0.151 €

EUR/USD1.386602.01.2009 · a week earlier: 1.4005

Spain in the EU, diesel8 / 2705.01.2009 · Spain 0.836 €, EU average 0.949 € (1 = cheapest)

Brent and the euro: the last value before each Monday. Pump prices follow crude with a lag of several weeks.

Brent oil price in euros per litre → · Fuel prices in Spain and the EU →

Sources: Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO), open data; U.S. EIA (Brent); European Central Bank (euro rate); European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (CC BY 4.0). Medians and changes calculated by Litrigo.