# When do fuel stations change their prices in Croatia?

Window: Jun 23, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026 · 90 days · rebuilt every night

- A station in Croatia changes its Eurosuper 95 price 0.77 times a week on average, and a price that has just changed then holds for 7 days before the next one.
- On an ordinary day 0.2% of the stations in Croatia change their price; on the busiest day of the window, 93.5%.
- The busiest weekday is Tuesday, with 88.6% of all changes; the quietest is Sunday, with 0.0%.
- An increase moves the price by 0.044 EUR/L on average, a cut by 0.059 EUR/L. Over the window there were 3 474 changes upward and 977 downward.
- Half of all the price changes of the last 47 days happened on just 3 of them.
- When INA moves, 100% of its own stations move on the same day — the price of a station in this network is not set at the station.
- Petrol reaches the centre of a market-wide move first in 5 of the 5 waves we measured; the rest follow at a median of 0.1 days.
- Across the window the market median went from 1.620 EUR/L to 1.730 EUR/L.

## Eurosuper 95

- Changes per station: 0.77 / week
- A price holds for: 7 days
- Stations: 861 · 4 451 price changes

| Which weekday | increase | cut |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monday | 0 | 55 |
| Tuesday | 3 052 | 891 |
| Wednesday | 238 | 30 |
| Thursday | 34 | 1 |
| Friday | 147 | 0 |
| Saturday | 2 | 0 |
| Sunday | 1 | 0 |

- increase: 0.044 EUR/L (n=3 474)
- cut: 0.059 EUR/L (n=977)

| Network | Stations | Changes / station / week | Together | Behind the first mover |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| INA | 389 | 0.76 | 100% | first |
| Petrol | 200 | 0.90 | 12% | first |
| Coral Croatia | 32 | 0.72 | 97% | first |
| Tifon | 54 | 0.80 | 100% | 0.11 d |
| LUKOIL Croatia | 43 | 0.76 | 100% | 0.11 d |
| Adria Oil | 39 | 0.70 | 13% | 0.30 d |

## Diesel

- Changes per station: 0.77 / week
- A price holds for: 7 days
- Stations: 863 · 4 479 price changes

| Which weekday | increase | cut |
|---|---:|---:|
| Monday | 0 | 67 |
| Tuesday | 2 373 | 1 622 |
| Wednesday | 134 | 94 |
| Thursday | 25 | 10 |
| Friday | 136 | 0 |
| Saturday | 16 | 1 |
| Sunday | 0 | 1 |

- increase: 0.072 EUR/L (n=2 684)
- cut: 0.063 EUR/L (n=1 795)

| Network | Stations | Changes / station / week | Together | Behind the first mover |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Petrol | 202 | 0.90 | 11% | first |
| INA | 389 | 0.76 | 100% | 0.01 d |
| Coral Croatia | 32 | 0.75 | 50% | 0.04 d |
| Tifon | 54 | 0.80 | 100% | 0.11 d |
| LUKOIL Croatia | 43 | 0.76 | 100% | 0.11 d |
| Adria Oil | 39 | 0.68 | 13% | 0.30 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 44% 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: 5.
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 Croatia. 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: the Croatian Ministry of Economy (mzoe-gor.hr) and the reporting station operators. Analysis: fuel-prices.eu.

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

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