UK fuel prices: petrol 172.1p, diesel 198.7p — weekly review

The average litre of E10 petrol at British forecourts costs 172.1p and B7 diesel 198.7p, calculated across 8088 forecourts nationwide on 2 November 2026.

What changed over the week

Petrol is down by 1.2p and diesel down by 0.3p. On a 55-litre tank that is about £0.67 for petrol and £0.14 for diesel.

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Where it is cheaper and dearer

Among the larger cities Belfast has the cheapest petrol at 164.9p a litre on average, while Liverpool is the dearest at 171.9p — a gap of 7p a litre.

How much choosing the forecourt saves

Within a single city the gap between cheaper and dearer forecourts reaches 15.2p a litre, widest in Leeds. On a full tank that is £8.34 — more than waiting for prices to fall. One forecourt in twenty sells petrol below 162.9p a litre.

Where these figures come from

We take the government Fuel Finder dataset — the scheme forecourts must report their prices to — and keep a snapshot every day. Neither Google nor Fuel Finder itself stores history, so the week-on-week comparison comes from our own archive. Snapshot of 02/11/2026 06:50:19. This article is assembled automatically from that data: every figure is computed, not retold.

Prices by city

Median price, pence per litre. Cities are grouped by postcode area; the median is steadier than the mean against a single bad reading.

How this is calculated, and reuse

Prices come from Fuel Finder, the government scheme forecourts must report to, cross-checked against the retailers' own open feeds. We keep a snapshot of all 8088 forecourts every day: neither Fuel Finder nor the search engines keep history, so a week-on-week comparison is only possible from our own archive. Snapshot: 02/11/2026 06:50:19.

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