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Fuel prices in Spain: week 12 of 2016

21 Mar – 27 Mar 2016

Diesel hardly changed over the week and ended at 0.999 €. Petrol 95 rose by 1.7 cents over the week, to 1.149 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Dec 2015. A year earlier diesel cost 1.169 €: it is now 17.0 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (+1.1 cents). Diesel fell most in Soria (−1.0 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.877 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 21 MarMon 28 MarChangeWeek average
Diesel0.9990.999no change0.999
Petrol 951.1321.1491.7 ¢1.143
Petrol 981.2591.2781.9 ¢1.271
LPG0.5780.577no change0.578

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

1.001.1028 Dec15 Feb28 MarPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 28 MarChange
Rose most
Santa Cruz de Tenerife0.7291.1 ¢
Albacete1.0191.0 ¢
Ciudad Real1.0191.0 ¢
Gipuzkoa0.9891.0 ¢
Guadalajara1.0291.0 ¢
Fell most
Soria0.9691.0 ¢
Bizkaia0.9840.5 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 28 MarChange
Rose most
Soria1.1193.7 ¢
Álava1.1293.0 ¢
Bizkaia1.1393.0 ¢
Salamanca1.1093.0 ¢
Tarragona1.1693.0 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1370.779 22.0 ¢0.880
bonÀrea470.877 12.2 ¢1.019
Alcampo500.879 12.0 ¢1.039
Esclatoil370.909 9.0 ¢1.049
Petroprix440.909 9.0 ¢1.064
Carrefour1330.954 4.5 ¢1.119
Meroil410.966 3.3 ¢1.113
Ballenoil1840.969 3.0 ¢1.119
Avia1130.979 2.0 ¢1.119
Plenergy610.980 1.9 ¢1.122

* 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$ 38.3324.03.2016 · a week earlier: $ 39.26
Brent, € per litre0.216 €24.03.2016 · a week earlier: 0.219 €
EUR/USD1.115424.03.2016 · a week earlier: 1.1279

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.