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Fuel prices in Spain: week 42 of 2013

14 Oct – 20 Oct 2013

Diesel fell by 0.8 cents over the week, to 1.369 €. That is the lowest diesel price since Aug 2013. Petrol 95 hardly changed over the week and ended at 1.418 €. That is the lowest petrol 95 price since May 2013. A year earlier diesel cost 1.411 €: it is now 4.2 cents cheaper.

Diesel fell most in Cáceres (−2.0 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 1.239 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 14 OctMon 21 OctChangeWeek average
Diesel1.3771.3690.8 ¢1.376
Petrol 951.4191.418no change1.420
Petrol 981.5361.534no change1.536
LPG0.7800.780no change0.780

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

1.351.401.4522 Jul9 Sep21 OctPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 21 OctChange
Fell most
Cáceres1.3792.0 ¢
Gipuzkoa1.3281.7 ¢
Ciudad Real1.3741.6 ¢
Málaga1.3841.5 ¢
Cantabria1.3891.4 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 21 OctChange
Rose most
Huesca1.3690.7 ¢
Fell most
Melilla1.0303.0 ¢
Albacete1.4191.0 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife1.0791.0 ¢
Bizkaia1.3680.9 ¢
Barcelona1.4090.8 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1381.060 30.9 ¢1.089
bonÀrea381.239 13.0 ¢1.309
Alcampo471.309 6.0 ¢1.359
Avia1081.349 2.0 ¢1.399
Petronor1881.359 1.0 ¢1.410
Ballenoil1261.361 0.8 ¢1.412
Q8691.363 0.6 ¢1.409
Petrocat331.364 0.5 ¢1.419
Plenergy541.364 0.5 ¢1.407
Shell3541.364 0.5 ¢1.409

* 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$ 109.4018.10.2013 · a week earlier: $ 110.65
Brent, € per litre0.503 €18.10.2013 · a week earlier: 0.513 €
EUR/USD1.368418.10.2013 · a week earlier: 1.3566
Spain in the EU, diesel12 / 2821.10.2013 · Spain 1.362 €, EU average 1.438 € (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.