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Fuel prices in Spain: week 34 of 2018

20 Aug – 26 Aug 2018

Diesel rose by 1.0 cents over the week, to 1.249 €. That is the highest diesel price since Jun 2018. Petrol 95 hardly changed over the week and ended at 1.339 €. A year earlier diesel cost 1.079 €: it is now 17.0 cents dearer.

Diesel rose most in Zaragoza (+1.8 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 1.119 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 20 AugMon 27 AugChangeWeek average
Diesel1.2391.2491.0 ¢1.245
Petrol 951.3391.339no change1.339
Petrol 981.4691.4791.0 ¢1.473
LPG0.6950.695no change0.695

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

1.251.301.3528 May16 Jul27 AugPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 27 AugChange
Rose most
Zaragoza1.2381.8 ¢
Tarragona1.2891.5 ¢
Alicante1.2891.0 ¢
Almería1.2591.0 ¢
Asturias1.2691.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 27 AugChange
Rose most
Soria1.2951.1 ¢
Albacete1.3591.0 ¢
Alicante1.3891.0 ¢
Cantabria1.3191.0 ¢
Ciudad Real1.3391.0 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1380.976 27.3 ¢1.064
bonÀrea531.119 13.0 ¢1.214
Alcampo521.149 10.0 ¢1.258
Eroski321.164 8.5 ¢1.269
GasExpress351.168 8.1 ¢1.267
Esclatoil441.169 8.0 ¢1.279
Petroprix661.178 7.1 ¢1.275
Ballenoil2251.209 4.0 ¢1.309
Meroil401.219 3.0 ¢1.325
Plenergy701.224 2.5 ¢1.307

* 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$ 74.4124.08.2018 · a week earlier: $ 70.14
Brent, € per litre0.404 €24.08.2018 · a week earlier: 0.387 €
EUR/USD1.158824.08.2018 · a week earlier: 1.1391
Spain in the EU, diesel6 / 2827.08.2018 · Spain 1.230 €, EU average 1.353 € (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.