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What is Fuel Finder?
Fuel Finder is the UK government scheme that makes every filling station publish its pump prices as open data. It is why sites like this one can show you today's price at every forecourt.
The law behind it
The Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025 came into force on 2 February 2026. Every filling station in the United Kingdom must report the price of each fuel grade it sells within 30 minutes of a change taking effect at the pump. The data is published through the Fuel Finder scheme for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, free to reuse under the Open Government Licence.
The scheme grew out of the Competition and Markets Authority's work on road fuel, which found that drivers could not easily compare prices and recommended a mandatory open data scheme so they could.
What it covers
Each forecourt reports its name, brand, address and location, opening hours, facilities and a price for every grade it sells. On 5 October 2026 our copy held 8,130 open UK forecourts:
| Grade | Forecourts | UK average |
|---|---|---|
| Unleaded E10 | 7,399 | 174.9p |
| Super unleaded E5 | 5,930 | 192.4p |
| Diesel B7 | 7,474 | 200.2p |
| Premium diesel | 3,954 | 218.7p |
| B10 biodiesel | 44 | 199.9p |
| HVO renewable diesel | 49 | 225.4p |
How to use it to find cheap fuel
- Search by postcode to see every nearby forecourt, cheapest first, for petrol or diesel.
- Check your town: we have a page for 496 towns, each listing every forecourt and the gap between the cheapest and dearest.
- Compare brands and supermarkets on the brand league table.
- Follow the national picture on UK fuel prices today.
What it can't tell you
- Forecourts that stop reporting. 591 forecourts have not reported for 14 days or more. We list them as out of date and leave them out of every average; see the stale price index.
- Mistakes. Prices are typed in by the forecourt. We set aside impossible figures and keep one mistyped price from defining a town's gap.
- Why prices change. The scheme records pump prices, not wholesale costs or margins.
Questions
What is Fuel Finder?
Fuel Finder is the UK government scheme that makes every filling station publish its fuel prices as open data. It is run for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero under the Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025.
When did Fuel Finder start?
The regulations came into force on 2 February 2026. Since then every filling station in the UK has had to report its prices.
How quickly do forecourts have to update their prices?
Within 30 minutes of a price change taking effect at the pump, for each fuel grade they sell.
Is there a Fuel Finder app?
The scheme publishes the price data; websites and apps, including this one, turn it into searchable prices. On British Fuel Prices you can search by postcode on any device, with no app or account.
Is the Fuel Finder data free to use?
Yes. It is published under the Open Government Licence, so anyone can reuse it with an attribution.
Why do some prices look out of date?
A forecourt only reports when its price changes, so a price a few days old is usually still current. If a forecourt has not reported for 14 days we leave it out of averages and mark it as out of date.
British Fuel Prices is independent and is not part of the government scheme. We read the Fuel Finder data every 30 minutes and keep every price change; how we count is set out on the method page.