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Fuel prices in Spain: week 16 of 2016

18 Apr – 24 Apr 2016

Diesel rose by 1.0 cents over the week, to 1.009 €. That is the highest diesel price since Dec 2015. Petrol 95 hardly changed over the week and ended at 1.169 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.219 €: it is now 21.0 cents cheaper.

Diesel rose most in Cuenca (+2.7 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 0.858 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 18 AprMon 25 AprChangeWeek average
Diesel0.9991.0091.0 ¢1.002
Petrol 951.1691.169no change1.169
Petrol 981.2991.298no change1.298
LPG0.5930.593no change0.593

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

1.001.1025 Jan14 Mar25 AprPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 25 AprChange
Rose most
Cuenca1.0362.7 ¢
Illes Balears1.0642.5 ¢
Sevilla1.0292.4 ¢
Badajoz1.0192.0 ¢
Bizkaia1.0092.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 25 AprChange
Rose most
Badajoz1.1791.0 ¢
Cuenca1.1991.0 ¢
Palencia1.1280.9 ¢
Santa Cruz de Tenerife0.8280.9 ¢
Valencia1.1780.9 ¢
Fell most
Bizkaia1.1491.0 ¢
Cantabria1.1391.0 ¢
Cádiz1.1791.0 ¢
Córdoba1.1891.0 ¢
Gipuzkoa1.1591.0 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1370.769 24.0 ¢0.886
bonÀrea470.858 15.1 ¢1.034
Alcampo500.887 12.2 ¢1.059
Esclatoil370.919 9.0 ¢1.079
Petroprix440.919 9.0 ¢1.079
Carrefour1290.969 4.0 ¢1.149
Meroil420.972 3.7 ¢1.129
Ballenoil1860.979 3.0 ¢1.138
Plenergy610.979 3.0 ¢1.144
Avia1130.990 1.9 ¢1.149

* 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$ 43.9722.04.2016 · a week earlier: $ 41.32
Brent, € per litre0.246 €22.04.2016 · a week earlier: 0.230 €
EUR/USD1.126322.04.2016 · a week earlier: 1.1284
Spain in the EU, diesel7 / 2825.04.2016 · Spain 0.986 €, EU average 1.102 € (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.