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Fuel prices in Spain: week 10 of 2016

7 Mar – 13 Mar 2016

Diesel rose by 3.0 cents over the week, to 0.999 €. That is the highest diesel price since Dec 2015. Petrol 95 rose by 3.2 cents over the week, to 1.129 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Jan 2016. A year earlier diesel cost 1.189 €: it is now 19.0 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Guadalajara (+3.9 cents). Among the large chains, Alcampo had the cheapest diesel at 0.860 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 7 MarMon 14 MarChangeWeek average
Diesel0.9690.9993.0 ¢0.985
Petrol 951.0971.1293.2 ¢1.116
Petrol 981.2221.2593.7 ¢1.244
LPG0.5780.578no change0.577

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

1.001.1014 Dec1 Feb14 MarPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 14 MarChange
Rose most
Guadalajara1.0283.9 ¢
Ceuta0.8253.6 ¢
Melilla0.6993.4 ¢
Alicante1.0193.0 ¢
Almería1.0093.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 14 MarChange
Rose most
Salamanca1.0996.0 ¢
Teruel1.1395.0 ¢
Ciudad Real1.1474.8 ¢
Tarragona1.1474.8 ¢
Bizkaia1.1164.7 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1370.749 25.0 ¢0.854
Alcampo500.860 13.9 ¢1.014
bonÀrea470.866 13.3 ¢0.997
Esclatoil370.899 10.0 ¢1.029
Petroprix430.899 10.0 ¢1.044
Meroil420.953 4.6 ¢1.093
Carrefour1320.959 4.0 ¢1.109
Avia1120.969 3.0 ¢1.096
Ballenoil1850.969 3.0 ¢1.099
Shell3650.971 2.8 ¢1.109

* 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$ 39.4111.03.2016 · a week earlier: $ 37.61
Brent, € per litre0.224 €11.03.2016 · a week earlier: 0.216 €
EUR/USD1.109011.03.2016 · a week earlier: 1.0970
Spain in the EU, diesel8 / 2814.03.2016 · Spain 0.971 €, EU average 1.082 € (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.