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Everything on this page is generated from the module itself, so it cannot say one thing here and another on the front page.

Built from the data file published on 2026-10-18 00:40 UTC.

What this measures

Weekly national average — not the price at your station today.

This is a price, measured in EUR/l.

One figure stands for the whole country.

The figure on the front page is: Diesel.

What it does not measure

  • A national average is not your price. It is what the whole country paid on average; your supplier, your town and your day will differ.

Where the numbers come from

EU Weekly Oil Bulletinenergy.ec.europa.euOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Source published 2026-10-12 · CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)
Lietuvos energetikos agentūra — degalų kainosdegalukainos.ena.ltOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Source published 2026-10-16 · no explicit open licence stated (ena.lt footer: Visos teisės saugomos)
Circle K Latvia — published fuel pricescirclek.lvSecondary source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Source published 2026-10-15
Virši — published fuel pricesvirsi.lvSecondary source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Source published 2026-10-15
data.gov.lv — Komersantu ziņotās vidējās degvielas cenasdata.gov.lvOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Source published 2026-10-12 · CC0-1.0
Statistics Latvia PCC010m — average retail price of Diesel, 10 l, monthly, VAT included (independent of the EU bulletin)data.stat.gov.lvOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Source published 2026-10-08 · CC0-1.0 (data.gov.lv mirror record 'osp', verified 2026-10-17)
Statistics Estonia — Prices (majandus/hinnad): price indices only, no average retail fuel priceandmed.stat.eeOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC · Statistics Estonia's open data can be shared under Creative Commons (CC) licence BY-SA 4.0 (andmed.stat.ee page footer, identical on every table page; not a per-table statement)
What the kinds of source mean
  • Official — a statistics office, a regulator, or the exchange where the price was actually set.
  • Secondary — published by a company. Useful, named, but not official statistics.

How often it arrives, and what we do when it is late

The source publishes once a week.

A fresh figure is normally about 7 day(s) old when it reaches us, because statistics describe a period that has already ended.

The figure now on the site describes 2026-10-12 and is 6 day(s) old.

Past twice that age the module is marked as old automatically. It cannot mark itself as fresh — we compute the age from the date the data describes.

If a fetch fails, the last good figure stays up with its original date, the module is marked as not updated, and it visibly ages until the source publishes again. An old number never gets today's date.

We last ran this module at 2026-10-17 06:11 UTC.

Taxes

The figure includes all taxes and duties. The module does not break the rate down country by country, so use the source's own definition if you need the split.

Units and conversions

Unit: EUR/l.

History: 1088 readings, from 2005-01-03 to 2026-10-12.

38 gap(s) in the history. Each one is listed in the data and none is filled in.

Country by country

CountryCoverageWhy
LatviaCovered—
LithuaniaCovered—
EstoniaCovered—

What the module itself flags

  • For 2026-09 the statistical office measured 2.08 EUR/l and the EU bulletin averaged 2.11 EUR/l — a difference of -1.62%. Both include VAT.
  • Across 260 months the two typically sit -0.31% apart. That is a timing difference, not an error in either.
  • The office's own series (261 monthly readings) is published beside the weekly one, never merged into it.
  • The office's own terms page could not be retrieved. The open data record 'osp' for the same publisher states CC0-1.0, and that is all this page claims.
  • Estonia has no second source for this figure. All 30 tables in the statistical office’s price folder are indices or changes; none is an average price in euro. That is what is published, not a gap in this page.
  • The word “fuel” does appear in 2 Estonian category name(s), but inside the farm input price index. That measures what a farm pays for energy, not what a driver pays at the pump, and it is never set against the bulletin.
  • Statistics Estonia states in the footer of every database page: “Statistics Estonia’s open data can be shared under Creative Commons (CC) licence BY-SA 4.0”. That footer, and not a notice on the table itself, is what was read.
  • Lithuania has one source, not two. Lietuvos energetikos agentūra (ENA) both supplies the prices shown here and compiles the weekly figure sent to the European Commission, so it cannot check that figure — it is where it comes from.
  • 6 Lithuanian routes were checked and none can serve. The open data portal holds no fuel dataset, the private sites republish the same agency and keep months rather than years, and the one genuinely separate series is behind a robots file that refuses everything. That last one is not missing data — it is data this site does not take.
  • The same question was put to all three countries and got three answers. Latvia has a second source and it is independent: a different office running its own survey. Lithuania’s only candidate is the body that reports to the Commission, so it is the same compiler. Estonia’s statistical office is not the reporter and would be independent — but it publishes no price in euro to compare.
  • Full weekly history from 2005-01-03 to 2026-10-12 (1088 points). Weeks the bulletin did not publish are left as gaps, never filled in.
  • Prices from before a country adopted the euro are the bulletin's own euro conversion at that week's exchange rate.

The data itself

The same figures, machine-readable:

Everything the front page draws from, in one file:

Where this module stands right now

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