British Fuel Prices

Motorway forecourts charge 19.1p a litre more

That is £10.51 on a 55-litre fill, measured today across 160 motorway forecourts against 7,488 everywhere else.

186.7pmotorway average, E10
167.6peverywhere else
8,085forecourts covered
3,065reported today

What this is

Since February 2026 every filling station in Britain has been legally required to publish its prices, and to report a change within 30 minutes of it happening at the pump. That data is free for anyone to use. This site is what it looks like when somebody checks it.

We do two things nobody else bothers with. We throw away prices that have gone stale, because a figure nobody has updated in a month is not what you would pay today. And we publish the underlying numbers on every page, so you never have to take our word for any of it.

It changes the answers. 301 forecourts have not reported for over 14 days. Leave them in and the widest local price gap in Britain looks like £46 a tank. Take them out and the real answer is £22.00, in Armagh. Other sites publish the first number.

Which brand is dearest

Average unleaded across every forecourt a brand operates. The national average is 168p.

BrandAverage E10Sitesvs national
MORGAN FUELS153.9p7 -14.1p
THOMPSON FUELS LTD155.9p6 -12.1p
COSTCO WHOLESALE158.3p18 -9.7p
NICHOLL160.5p7 -7.5p
WELCOME BREAK181.7p40 +13.7p
SHELL171.8p860 +3.8p
GLEANER171.7p27 +3.7p
HARVEST ENERGY171.6p14 +3.6p

The full league table · Download it

What you would save locally

The difference between the cheapest and the dearest forecourt in one town, as pounds on a 55-litre tank. For most drivers this is worth more than anything else on this site.

Armagh £22.00 a tank · 13 forecourts Wolverhampton £19.80 a tank · 26 forecourts Derby £19.80 a tank · 28 forecourts Wakefield £18.70 a tank · 19 forecourts Swansea £18.70 a tank · 23 forecourts Bridgwater £18.26 a tank · 11 forecourts

All 496 towns

For journalists and researchers

Every figure here is downloadable: the full file of 8,085 forecourts, the league table, every town, and each town separately from its own page. Our method sets out exactly what is counted, what is excluded and why.

Quote it freely, with a link. The underlying data is Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence; our analysis is yours to use.