Where can I find official UK fuel prices?

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero publishes average UK pump prices for petrol and diesel every week, with a long time series, and monthly prices with a breakdown of duty and VAT.

Check whether a claim uses the weekly average or a single day, and whether it compares pence per litre including or excluding duty and VAT.

Official sources: Weekly road fuel prices

The latest figure

The newest value is at Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). More on it: Average UK petrol and diesel price.

When is the next figure out?

Weekly on Tuesdays at 9:30am for Monday's prices. The GOV.UK Content API JSON lists the current CSV, Excel and XML attachments; the CSV attachment URL changes each week (the 2018 onwards CSV has columns for petrol and diesel prices, duty and VAT)

Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.

Terms used in this answer

• Cash terms
  A money figure stated at the prices of the time it refers to, with no adjustment for inflation. Also called nominal terms.
• Real terms
  A figure adjusted to remove the effect of inflation, so amounts from different years can be compared by what they would buy rather than their face value.
• Mean
  The total of all values divided by how many there are. Often what people mean by 'average', it can be pulled up or down by a few extreme values.
• Year-on-year change
  The change between a figure for one period and the same period twelve months earlier, such as March this year compared with March last year.

Where the figures come from

• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) energy and emissions statistics, and Ofgem energy price cap data
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