Spain
Weekly prices
Week 42, 2009

Fuel prices in Spain: week 42 of 2009

Name: Fuel prices in Spain, week 42 of 2009 (12 Oct – 18 Oct 2009)
Creator: Litrigo

12 Oct – 18 Oct 2009

Diesel rose by 2.3 cents over the week, to 0.957 €. Petrol 95 rose by 1.8 cents over the week, to 1.053 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.067 €: it is now 11.0 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Huelva (+3.0 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.869 €.

Median prices across Spain

Fuel	Mon 12 Oct	Mon 19 Oct	Change	Week average
Diesel	0.93⁴	0.95⁷	2.3 ¢	0.94⁴
Petrol 95	1.03⁵	1.05³	1.8 ¢	1.04²
Petrol 98	1.14⁹	1.16⁷	1.8 ¢	1.15⁵

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 19 Oct	Change
Rose most
Huelva	0.95²	3.0 ¢
Asturias	0.97⁶	2.7 ¢
Castellón	0.96⁷	2.7 ¢
Valencia	0.96⁷	2.7 ¢
Almería	0.95⁴	2.6 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

Province	Mon 19 Oct	Change
Rose most
Burgos	1.04⁵	2.4 ¢
Asturias	1.07³	2.1 ¢
Cantabria	1.04⁵	2.1 ¢
Ciudad Real	1.07³	2.1 ¢
A Coruña	1.07³	2.1 ¢

The cheapest large chains

Chain	Stations	Diesel	Petrol 95
Disa^*	119	0.62⁴ 33.3 ¢	0.75⁷
bonÀrea	31	0.86⁹ 8.8 ¢	0.96⁷
Alcampo	38	0.92⁴ 3.3 ¢	1.02⁰
Carrefour	100	0.93⁷ 2.0 ¢	1.03⁶
Agla	52	0.94⁹ 0.8 ¢	1.04¹
Avia	94	0.95³ median	1.04⁵
Petronor	178	0.95³ median	1.04⁵
Campsa	94	0.95⁴ median	1.04⁸
Shell	313	0.95⁴ median	1.04⁸
Q8	67	0.95⁹ median	1.05⁸

* 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$ 74.5816.10.2009 · a week earlier: $ 69.45

Brent, € per litre0.315 €16.10.2009 · a week earlier: 0.296 €

EUR/USD1.486916.10.2009 · a week earlier: 1.4750

Spain in the EU, diesel9 / 2719.10.2009 · Spain 0.958 €, EU average 1.037 € (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.