{ "family": "price_rhythm", "url": "https://www.fuel-prices.eu/live/uk/price-changes/", "markdown": "https://www.fuel-prices.eu/live/uk/price-changes/data.md", "language": "en", "market": { "key": "uk", "country": "the United Kingdom", "cc": "GB", "live_map": "https://www.fuel-prices.eu/live/uk/" }, "window": { "d0": "2026-09-25", "d1": "2026-10-13", "days": 19 }, "built_at": "2026-10-15T01:11:56+00:00", "currency": "GBP", "method": { "series": "one price per station per day", "change": "two consecutive days with different prices, counted on the second", "max_gap_days": 3, "hour_of_day": "source clock" }, "headline": [ "A station in the United Kingdom changes its Unleaded (E10) price 0.68 times a week on average, and a price that has just changed then holds for 4 days before the next one.", "On an ordinary day 10.2% of the stations in the United Kingdom change their price; on the busiest day of the window, 20.2%.", "The busiest weekday is Tuesday, with 21.8% of all changes; the quietest is Sunday, with 6.4%.", "An increase moves the price by 1.4p on average, a cut by 1.6p. Over the window there were 9 514 changes upward and 5 085 downward.", "Half of all the price changes of the last 19 days happened on just 6 of them.", "Across the window the market median went from 173.9p to 173.9p.", "Where the source carries a clock of its own, most changes land between 15:00 and 16:00 — 12% of 3 628 changes carrying a timestamp in the sample." ], "fuels": { "petrol": { "label": "Unleaded (E10)", "code": "e10", "stations": 7926, "days_covered": 19, "changes": 14599, "changes_per_station_per_week": 0.679, "median_days_between_changes": 4, "by_weekday": [ { "up": 1575, "down": 678, "up_sum": 23.574, "down_sum": 13.406 }, { "up": 1838, "down": 1350, "up_sum": 27.464, "down_sum": 19.267 }, { "up": 903, "down": 624, "up_sum": 12.887, "down_sum": 11.342 }, { "up": 955, "down": 900, "up_sum": 12.858, "down_sum": 14.791 }, { "up": 1101, "down": 835, "up_sum": 18.568, "down_sum": 12.105 }, { "up": 2476, "down": 432, "up_sum": 31.872, "down_sum": 6.817 }, { "up": 666, "down": 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