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Fuel prices in Spain: week 5 of 2009

26 Jan – 1 Feb 2009

Diesel hardly changed over the week and ended at 0.871 €. Petrol 95 rose by 1.2 cents over the week, to 0.898 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Dec 2008. A year earlier diesel cost 1.048 €: it is now 17.7 cents cheaper.

Diesel fell most in Ceuta (−1.1 cents). Among the large chains, Alcampo had the cheapest diesel at 0.853 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 26 JanMon 2 FebChangeWeek average
Diesel0.8740.871no change0.873
Petrol 950.8860.8981.2 ¢0.893
Petrol 980.9991.0101.1 ¢1.006

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

0.850.900.951.003 Nov22 Dec2 FebPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 2 FebChange
Fell most
Ceuta0.6461.1 ¢
Las Palmas0.5991.0 ¢
Melilla0.6860.7 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife0.5950.7 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 2 FebChange
Rose most
Albacete0.9191.2 ¢
Alicante0.9201.2 ¢
Álava0.8911.2 ¢
Asturias0.9181.2 ¢
Badajoz0.8921.2 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1150.592 27.9 ¢0.658
Alcampo370.853 1.8 ¢0.875
Petronor1770.865 0.6 ¢0.891
Avia830.866 0.5 ¢0.891
Agla500.868 median0.889
Campsa870.869 median0.892
Shell2840.870 median0.892
Carrefour960.871 median0.897
Cepsa6040.871 median0.900
Repsol2,3730.871 median0.900

* 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$ 44.1730.01.2009 · a week earlier: $ 43.13
Brent, € per litre0.217 €30.01.2009 · a week earlier: 0.212 €
EUR/USD1.281630.01.2009 · a week earlier: 1.2795
Spain in the EU, diesel8 / 2702.02.2009 · Spain 0.874 €, EU average 0.977 € (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.