Europe fuel prices this week
Updated 17 August 2026 · recomputed every week from 41 European markets · this URL is permanent
Petrol 95 across the EU averages €1.92 a litre, +0.7% on the week and +0.8% over four weeks. Across the 41 European markets we track, the cheapest is Malta at €1.34 and the dearest Denmark at €2.45 — a spread of €1.10 a litre, or €55.25 on one 50-litre tank. The median European market pays €1.73.
The EU average, over time
- Week on week
- up Week on week 0.7%
- Over 4 weeks
- up Over 4 weeks 0.8%
- Year on year
- up Year on year 19.8%
156weekly points from the European Commission’s own series — the one European history that goes back years.
- Week on week
- up Week on week 1.0%
- Over 4 weeks
- up Over 4 weeks 5.6%
- Year on year
- up Year on year 33.5%
156weekly points from the European Commission’s own series — the one European history that goes back years.
What moved
Petrol 95, measured against our snapshot of 2026-08-10. This table does not exist anywhere else: the EU bulletin publishes movement for the aggregate, not per country.
Biggest increases
Movement is measured from FuelWide's own weekly archive, which began on 2026-07-06 and now holds 7 snapshots. The EU Weekly Oil Bulletin publishes history for the EU aggregate only, so no per-country European series exists anywhere else — and ours is 7 weeks long, not years. It is enough to say what moved last week; it is not enough to say anything about a season.
Cheapest and dearest
| Fuel | Cheapest | Dearest | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol 95 | Malta €1.34 | Denmark €2.45 | €1.73 |
| Diesel | Malta €1.21 | Netherlands €2.38 | €1.90 |
Where a border crossing pays most
The five land borders with the widest petrol gap this week, and what one 50-litre tank costs differently on the two sides.
How much of the price is tax
Duty and VAT as a share of the petrol 95 pump price, from the pre-tax figures each publisher reports alongside it. Markets whose reported pre-tax price fails our plausibility check are left out rather than ranked on a number we do not believe.
Highest tax share
Lowest tax share
Europe by Fair Price Score
Every European market this week, grouped by where it sits in the ranking. The shape of this distribution is fixed by construction — what changes week to week is which markets are in which group. How the score works →
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Slovakia
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Norway
Romania
United Kingdom
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Switzerland
Liechtenstein
MonacoAbout this report
One page, rewritten every week rather than republished as a new article, so the URL you link to stays the URL that is current. Data for the week of 2026-08-17, generated 2026-08-26. European national averages come from the European Commission’s Weekly Oil Bulletin and, for the non-EU markets, from OpenVan.camp — movement is measured from FuelWide's own weekly archive, which began on 2026-07-06 and now holds 7 snapshots. The EU Weekly Oil Bulletin publishes history for the EU aggregate only, so no per-country European series exists anywhere else — and ours is 7 weeks long, not years. It is enough to say what moved last week; it is not enough to say anything about a season.
Free to cite: Source: FuelWide (fuelwide.com) for our own calculations — the rankings, medians, tax shares and Fair Price Scores on this page. For the prices themselves, credit the publisher too; each is named on the sources page.
Archive: 7 weekly snapshots from 2026-07-06 · EU aggregate series from the Weekly Oil Bulletin, 156 points