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Fuel prices in Spain: week 1 of 2020

30 Dec – 5 Jan 2020

Diesel rose by 1.0 cents over the week, to 1.269 €. That is the highest diesel price since May 2019. Petrol 95 rose by 1.0 cents over the week, to 1.339 €. That is the highest petrol 95 price since Aug 2019. A year earlier diesel cost 1.149 €: it is now 12.0 cents dearer.

Diesel rose most in Tarragona (+2.6 cents). Among the large chains, bonÀrea had the cheapest diesel at 1.119 €.

Median prices across Spain

FuelMon 30 DecMon 6 JanChangeWeek average
Diesel1.2591.2691.0 ¢1.266
Petrol 951.3291.3391.0 ¢1.336
Petrol 981.4671.4590.8 ¢1.467
LPG0.7290.729no change0.729

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

1.251.301.357 Oct25 Nov6 JanPetrol 95Diesel
DieselPetrol 95

Diesel: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 6 JanChange
Rose most
Tarragona1.2752.6 ¢
Álava1.3092.0 ¢
Córdoba1.2592.0 ¢
Girona1.2992.0 ¢
Teruel1.2692.0 ¢

Petrol 95: the largest changes by province

ProvinceMon 6 JanChange
Rose most
Cáceres1.3292.0 ¢
Huesca1.3292.0 ¢
Lugo1.3592.0 ¢
Tarragona1.3592.0 ¢
Teruel1.3292.0 ¢

The cheapest large chains

ChainStationsDieselPetrol 95
Disa*1371.009 26.0 ¢1.070
bonÀrea551.119 15.0 ¢1.178
GasExpress401.157 11.2 ¢1.239
Alcampo511.169 10.0 ¢1.249
Petroprix901.169 10.0 ¢1.249
Esclatoil481.179 9.0 ¢1.259
Plenergy941.198 7.1 ¢1.269
Eroski391.209 6.0 ¢1.289
Meroil401.228 4.1 ¢1.309
Agla681.229 4.0 ¢1.313

* 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$ 69.0803.01.2020 · a week earlier: $ 68.91
Brent, € per litre0.390 €03.01.2020 · a week earlier: 0.389 €
EUR/USD1.114703.01.2020 · a week earlier: 1.1153
Spain in the EU, diesel7 / 2806.01.2020 · Spain 1.247 €, EU average 1.359 € (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.