Spain
Weekly prices
Week 13, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 13 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 13 of 2009 (23 Mar – 29 Mar 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

23 Mar – 29 Mar 2009

Diesel rose by 2.0 cents over the week, to 0.855 €. Petrol 95 rose by 2.8 cents over the week, to 0.937 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Nov 2008. A year earlier diesel cost 1.128 €: it is now 27.3 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Illes Balears (+2.5 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.761 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 23 Mar	Mon 30 Mar	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.83⁵	0.85⁵	2.0 ¢	0.85¹
Petrol 95	0.90⁹	0.93⁷	2.8 ¢	0.93⁰
Petrol 98	1.02¹	1.04⁹	2.8 ¢	1.04³

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 30 Mar	Change
Rose most
Illes Balears	0.85⁵	2.5 ¢
Castellón	0.86⁷	2.3 ¢
Málaga	0.85⁴	2.3 ¢
Asturias	0.86⁸	2.1 ¢
Cáceres	0.85²	2.1 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 30 Mar	Change
Rose most
Castellón	0.95⁹	3.3 ¢
Ourense	0.95⁸	3.2 ¢
Cáceres	0.93⁰	3.1 ¢
Girona	0.95⁷	3.1 ¢
Málaga	0.93²	3.1 ¢
Fell most
Melilla	0.65⁹	0.6 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	107	0.58¹ 27.4 ¢	0.67⁴
bonÀrea	30	0.76¹ 9.4 ¢	0.85⁹
Alcampo	38	0.82⁸ 2.7 ¢	0.90⁴
Avia	83	0.84⁸ 0.7 ¢	0.92⁶
Petronor	182	0.84⁸ 0.7 ¢	0.92⁶
Agla	51	0.84⁹ 0.6 ¢	0.92⁷
Carrefour	97	0.85³ median	0.93³
Campsa	91	0.85⁵ median	0.93⁴
Repsol	2,470	0.85⁵ median	0.93⁶
Shell	299	0.85⁵ median	0.93⁴

* 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$ 50.8127.03.2009 · a week earlier: $ 49.27

Brent, € per litre0.240 €27.03.2009 · a week earlier: 0.229 €

EUR/USD1.329527.03.2009 · a week earlier: 1.3549

Spain in the EU, diesel10 / 2730.03.2009 · Spain 0.857 €, EU average 0.959 € (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.