Fuel price alerts
Hear when petrol near you drops under your price, watch your saved servos, and see what you saved this month.
Fuel prices shows what servos near you charge for the fuel you pick, checked against the government's own price feed, on a map that follows you, with whether to fill up now or wait and an alert when prices drop.
What it works out
- Every servo's price near you for the fuel you pick, and every fuel each servo sells.
- A map that follows you: pan or zoom and the cheapest in view, the colours and the list follow.
- Tomorrow's price, where the state publishes it ahead of time.
- A fill up now or wait verdict, with this week's move in one line.
- A price alert when fuel near you drops under your price, and your saved servos with their move since your last visit.
- The weekly average pump price in the towns the Australian Institute of Petroleum tracks, with the change on last week.
- The wholesale terminal gate price, the floor a pump price sits on.
- The cost of well-known drives, using fuel use figures for popular cars.
Where the numbers come from
- FuelWatch, Western Australia: every station's price for today and tomorrow
- MyFuel NT, Northern Territory
- FuelCheck for NSW, the ACT and Tasmania; the Queensland Fuel Price Reporting Scheme; the SA Fuel Pricing Information Scheme; Fair Fuel Open Data for Victoria
- Australian Institute of Petroleum: terminal gate prices and weekly retail averages
- FuelWatch monthly price files, for the 12 month history
- Green Vehicle Guide, official combined fuel use figures
Where a state publishes no government fuel price feed, the page says so instead of guessing.
Questions people ask
Can I see tomorrow's petrol price?
Where the state publishes it, yes. Western Australia does: FuelWatch publishes each station's price for the next day from 2:30pm, Western Australian time. The Northern Territory also has a next day price, because retailers there must lodge each day's price by 2:30pm for the next day.
Is E10 cheaper than unleaded 91?
E10 carries about 3% less energy than unleaded 91, because ethanol holds less energy per litre. So it only saves money when the posted price gap is bigger than that. The page checks E10 against 91 at the same servo, where both are reported live.
What is the terminal gate price?
It is the wholesale price at each capital's fuel terminals, published each weekday for unleaded and diesel by the Australian Institute of Petroleum. A pump price sits on top of it. The gap above it is freight, wages, rent and margin.
Related tools
- The grid now: the other energy bill
- Prices where you live: fuel against everything else
- Near you now: roads and warnings near you
The live tool loads on this page. Enter your own numbers and it works out the answer for you.