# When do fuel stations change their prices in Austria?

Window: Jul 27, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026 · 90 days · rebuilt every night

- A station in Austria changes its Super 95 (E10) price 2.22 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 45.3% of the stations in Austria change their price; on the busiest day of the window, 72.9%.
- The busiest weekday is Friday, with 16.7% of all changes; the quietest is Sunday, with 10.2%.
- An increase moves the price by 0.033 EUR/L on average, a cut by 0.028 EUR/L. Over the window there were 28 433 changes upward and 33 713 downward.
- Half of all the price changes of the last 90 days happened on just 39 of them.
- Disk reaches the centre of a market-wide move first in 2 of the 6 waves we measured; the rest follow at a median of 0.1 days.
- Across the window the market median went from 1.849 EUR/L to 1.784 EUR/L.

## Super 95 (E10)

- Changes per station: 2.22 / week
- A price holds for: 1 day
- Stations: 2 178 · 62 146 price changes

| Which weekday | increase | cut |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monday | 2 526 | 4 197 |
| Tuesday | 6 936 | 3 351 |
| Wednesday | 5 293 | 4 309 |
| Thursday | 4 826 | 5 095 |
| Friday | 4 567 | 5 801 |
| Saturday | 3 878 | 5 009 |
| Sunday | 407 | 5 951 |

- increase: 0.033 EUR/L (n=28 433)
- cut: 0.028 EUR/L (n=33 713)

| Network | Stations | Changes / station / week | Together | Behind the first mover |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| OMV | 121 | 1.32 | 19% | 0.09 d |
| Shell | 125 | 1.79 | 26% | 0.11 d |
| Disk | 152 | 3.29 | 49% | 0.11 d |
| JET | 158 | 3.42 | 51% | 0.12 d |
| Eni | 219 | 1.43 | 21% | 0.13 d |
| Avanti | 132 | 3.79 | 57% | 0.13 d |
| Turmöl | 238 | 3.86 | 58% | 0.14 d |
| Avia | 102 | 2.54 | 38% | 0.18 d |
| BP | 160 | 1.52 | 23% | 0.22 d |
| Genol | 126 | 0.91 | 13% | 0.42 d |

## Diesel

- Changes per station: 1.98 / week
- A price holds for: 1 day
- Stations: 2 380 · 60 708 price changes

| Which weekday | increase | cut |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monday | 2 462 | 3 691 |
| Tuesday | 6 566 | 3 711 |
| Wednesday | 5 390 | 4 225 |
| Thursday | 5 825 | 4 329 |
| Friday | 5 915 | 4 120 |
| Saturday | 4 465 | 4 221 |
| Sunday | 597 | 5 191 |

- increase: 0.036 EUR/L (n=31 220)
- cut: 0.028 EUR/L (n=29 488)

| Network | Stations | Changes / station / week | Together | Behind the first mover |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| JET | 158 | 3.16 | 47% | 0.05 d |
| Shell | 111 | 1.58 | 23% | 0.10 d |
| Avanti | 132 | 3.42 | 52% | 0.11 d |
| Turmöl | 239 | 3.65 | 54% | 0.13 d |
| Eni | 201 | 1.29 | 20% | 0.14 d |
| BP | 149 | 1.21 | 18% | 0.16 d |
| Disk | 155 | 3.13 | 47% | 0.16 d |
| Genol | 258 | 0.99 | 14% | 0.17 d |
| OMV | 112 | 1.15 | 16% | 0.17 d |
| Lagerhaus | 106 | 0.88 | 12% | 0.28 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 55% 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: 6.
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 Austria. 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: E-Control Spritpreisrechner API (official Austrian price transparency). Analysis: fuel-prices.eu.

Live fuel prices in %s: https://www.fuel-prices.eu/live/austria/

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