# When do fuel stations change their prices in the Northern Territory?

Window: Jun 22, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026 · 90 days · rebuilt every night

- A station in the Northern Territory changes its Unleaded (ULP) price 5.00 times a week on average, and a price that has just changed then holds for 1 day before the next one.
- On an ordinary day 98.8% of the stations in the Northern Territory change their price; on the busiest day of the window, 100.0%.
- The busiest weekday is Wednesday, with 19.5% of all changes; the quietest is Monday, with 4.7%.
- An increase moves the price by 0.014 AUD/L on average, a cut by 0.008 AUD/L. Over the window there were 2 910 changes upward and 1 282 downward.
- Half of all the price changes of the last 68 days happened on just 25 of them.
- Across the window the market median went from 1.057 AUD/L to 1.503 AUD/L.

## Unleaded (ULP)

- Changes per station: 5.00 / week
- A price holds for: 1 day
- Stations: 85 · 4 192 price changes

| Which weekday | increase | cut |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monday | 97 | 100 |
| Tuesday | 531 | 202 |
| Wednesday | 558 | 259 |
| Thursday | 536 | 264 |
| Friday | 365 | 361 |
| Saturday | 658 | 58 |
| Sunday | 165 | 38 |

- increase: 0.014 AUD/L (n=2 910)
- cut: 0.008 AUD/L (n=1 282)

## Diesel

- Changes per station: 4.88 / week
- A price holds for: 1 day
- Stations: 180 · 8 664 price changes

| Which weekday | increase | cut |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monday | 93 | 100 |
| Tuesday | 1 147 | 454 |
| Wednesday | 1 137 | 606 |
| Thursday | 1 038 | 714 |
| Friday | 714 | 836 |
| Saturday | 1 378 | 149 |
| Sunday | 263 | 35 |

- increase: 0.016 AUD/L (n=5 770)
- cut: 0.009 AUD/L (n=2 894)

| Network | Stations | Changes / station / week | Together | Behind the first mover |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Puma Energy | 41 | 4.75 | 100% | 0.01 d |
| Independent | 40 | 4.67 | 98% | 0.03 d |
| BP | 24 | 4.92 | 100% | 0.05 d |
| United | 21 | 5.42 | 100% | 0.07 d |

## How this was measured

One price per station per day. The daily history table holds one row per station, fuel and day. A row is also written back to the date the source itself gives as the moment of the change, so a change lands on the day the operator made it, not on the day we happened to read it.
A change is two consecutive days in a station’s series with different prices; it is counted on the second of the two. If more than 3 days separate the two readings, the pair is dropped — there is no way to say which day the price moved.
A market-wide move — a “wave” — is a run of days on which at least 99% of the stations with a price changed it; the threshold is not a fixed number but the market’s own median plus half the way to its 95th percentile. Within a wave each network gets the centre of gravity of its own changes; the network whose centre falls earliest moved first. Waves found in this window: 8.
The figures are rebuilt once a night from the full history, not on every visit.

## What this cannot tell you

At most one change per station per day is visible, because the history keeps one price per station per day. A station that changes twice in one day is counted once.
It cannot be established for the Northern Territory. Our history keeps one price per station per day, so we know the day a price changed but not the hour. Nothing on this page claims otherwise.

Source of the prices: MyFuel NT open data (Northern Territory, CC BY 4.0). Analysis: fuel-prices.eu.

Live fuel prices in %s: https://www.fuel-prices.eu/live/australia/northern-territory/

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