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Fuel prices in Spain: week 9 of 2016

29 Feb – 6 Mar 2016

Diesel rose by 2.0 cents over the week, to 0.969 €. That is the highest diesel price since Jan 2016. Petrol 95 rose by 1.8 cents over the week, to 1.097 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.198 €: it is now 22.9 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Soria (+3.9 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.838 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 29 FebMon 7 MarChangeWeek average
Diesel0.9490.9692.0 ¢0.962
Petrol 951.0791.0971.8 ¢1.089
Petrol 981.2081.2221.4 ¢1.217
LPG0.5670.5781.1 ¢0.570

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

1.001.107 Dec25 Jan7 MarPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 7 MarChange
Rose most
Soria0.9653.9 ¢
Badajoz0.9793.0 ¢
Burgos0.9493.0 ¢
Cantabria0.9593.0 ¢
Cáceres0.9893.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 7 MarChange
Rose most
Cuenca1.1293.0 ¢
Alicante1.1192.4 ¢
Huesca1.0902.1 ¢
Almería1.1192.0 ¢
Asturias1.1192.0 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1380.744 22.5 ¢0.849
bonÀrea470.838 13.1 ¢0.978
Alcampo500.839 13.0 ¢0.999
Esclatoil370.869 10.0 ¢1.029
Petroprix430.888 8.1 ¢1.043
Carrefour1310.929 4.0 ¢1.069
Meroil410.929 4.0 ¢1.059
Ballenoil1840.939 3.0 ¢1.066
Shell3640.948 2.1 ¢1.071
Avia1130.949 2.0 ¢1.069

* 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$ 37.6104.03.2016 · a week earlier: $ 35.76
Brent, € per litre0.216 €04.03.2016 · a week earlier: 0.204 €
EUR/USD1.097004.03.2016 · a week earlier: 1.1006
Spain in the EU, diesel7 / 2807.03.2016 · Spain 0.946 €, EU average 1.059 € (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.