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Fuel prices in Spain: week 2 of 2009

5 Jan – 11 Jan 2009

Diesel rose by 4.5 cents over the week, to 0.879 €. Petrol 95 rose by 4.5 cents over the week, to 0.865 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.069 €: it is now 19.0 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Álava (+5.2 cents). Diesel fell most in Ceuta (−3.1 cents). Among the large chains, Alcampo had the cheapest diesel at 0.841 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 5 JanMon 12 JanChangeWeek average
Diesel0.8340.8794.5 ¢0.856
Petrol 950.8200.8654.5 ¢0.842
Petrol 980.9350.9794.4 ¢0.956

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

0.901.001.1013 Oct1 Dec12 JanPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 12 JanChange
Rose most
Álava0.8795.2 ¢
Bizkaia0.8795.2 ¢
Cantabria0.8795.2 ¢
A Coruña0.8935.2 ¢
Cáceres0.8805.2 ¢
Fell most
Ceuta0.6123.1 ¢
Melilla0.6492.9 ¢
Las Palmas0.5890.8 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 12 JanChange
Rose most
Albacete0.8905.2 ¢
Álava0.8625.2 ¢
Bizkaia0.8625.2 ¢
Cantabria0.8625.2 ¢
A Coruña0.8905.2 ¢
Fell most
Melilla0.5962.0 ¢
Ceuta0.5911.8 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1150.587 29.2 ¢0.616
Alcampo370.841 3.8 ¢0.830
Carrefour940.841 3.8 ¢0.829
Agla510.868 1.1 ¢0.858
Cepsa6100.873 0.6 ¢0.863
Avia860.877 median0.862
BP5090.878 median0.869
Moeve4930.879 median0.866
Petronor1690.879 median0.862
Shell2730.879 median0.863

* 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$ 42.3409.01.2009 · a week earlier: $ 42.94
Brent, € per litre0.195 €09.01.2009 · a week earlier: 0.195 €
EUR/USD1.368409.01.2009 · a week earlier: 1.3866
Spain in the EU, diesel9 / 2712.01.2009 · Spain 0.878 €, EU average 0.988 € (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.