Fuel prices in France, 12 – 18 October 2026

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Card summarising national average fuel prices in France for 12 – 18 October 2026: diesel €2.37/l, petrol €2.17/l.
Card summarising national average fuel prices in France for 12 – 18 October 2026: diesel €2.37/l, petrol €2.17/l.

From Monday 12 October 2026 to Sunday 18 October 2026, this is how national average pump prices in France moved. Diesel: up 0.6% over 12 – 18 October 2026, from €2.35/l to €2.37/l. Petrol: up 0.1% over 12 – 18 October 2026, from €2.17/l to €2.17/l. The largest single-day move was on 18 October 2026: petrol +0.2%.

Our daily national series for this market covers 26 June – 18 October 2026 — 115 days — so no comparison here reaches further back than that. Diesel: between 11 October 2026 and 18 October 2026 the national average rose 0.7%, from €2.35/l to €2.37/l. The current level is 11.2% above the 21 July – 18 October 2026 low of €2.13/l, reached on 21 July 2026.

Percentages, price differences and fill-up estimates are calculated from unrounded national averages. Prices shown in prose and tables are rounded to two decimal places.

Key figures

National average pump prices in France, 12 – 18 October 2026. Station counts are given separately for each fuel because the two samples are not identical.
Fuel12 Oct18 OctChangeStations
Diesel€2.35/l€2.37/l+0.6%8,974 / 8,980
Petrol€2.17/l€2.17/l+0.1%6,860 / 6,994

Across all reporting stations the change is +0.6%; across the 8,675 stations that reported on both days it is +0.6%. The panel covers 96.7% of the smaller daily sample.

The same change measured two ways, between 12 October 2026 and 18 October 2026.
MetricValueStations
All reporting stations+0.6%8,974 / 8,980
Matched-station panel+0.6%8,675
Panel coverage96.7%8,675

France diesel average, 26 June – 18 October 2026

2.401.8926 Jun21 Aug18 Oct
Daily national average, one point per day, 26 June – 18 October 2026 — 114 days with data. A day with too small a sample is dropped, so the interval can have gaps.
Chart values as a table
Daily national average for diesel, 26 June – 18 October 2026.
DayAverageStations
€1.90/l9,726
€1.90/l9,726
€1.90/l9,724
€1.89/l9,724
€1.90/l9,724
€1.90/l9,726
€1.90/l9,725
€1.89/l9,724
€1.90/l9,724
€1.90/l9,724
€1.91/l9,724
€1.92/l9,724
€1.92/l9,725
€1.93/l9,726
€1.97/l9,727
€1.98/l9,727
€1.98/l9,725
€1.99/l9,724
€1.99/l9,724
€2.01/l9,724
€2.04/l9,724
€2.08/l9,722
€2.09/l9,722
€2.09/l9,722
€2.11/l9,724
€2.13/l9,725
€2.14/l9,727
€2.15/l9,726
€2.18/l9,728
€2.18/l9,727
€2.19/l9,727
€2.20/l9,726
€2.20/l9,726
€2.20/l9,726
€2.21/l9,725
€2.22/l9,723
€2.23/l9,723
€2.23/l9,721
€2.23/l9,720
€2.23/l9,720
€2.22/l9,720
€2.21/l9,719
€2.19/l9,721
€2.18/l9,721
€2.18/l9,717
€2.18/l9,718
€2.18/l9,718
€2.19/l9,718
€2.20/l9,718
€2.21/l9,716
€2.21/l9,714
€2.21/l9,714
€2.22/l9,714
€2.22/l9,715
€2.23/l9,707
€2.24/l9,707
€2.24/l9,707
€2.24/l9,706
€2.24/l9,705
€2.25/l9,707
€2.24/l9,707
€2.24/l9,705
€2.23/l9,706
€2.22/l9,706
€2.22/l9,706
€2.22/l9,705
€2.22/l9,707
€2.22/l9,703
€2.24/l9,703
€2.27/l9,704
€2.27/l9,701
€2.27/l9,701
€2.28/l9,703
€2.29/l9,704
€2.29/l9,702
€2.30/l9,702
€2.31/l9,704
€2.31/l9,699
€2.31/l9,693
€2.33/l9,690
€2.34/l9,688
€2.36/l9,675
€2.38/l9,668
€2.39/l9,640
€2.40/l9,622
€2.40/l9,611
€2.40/l9,580
€2.40/l9,575
€2.39/l9,566
€2.39/l9,452
€2.39/l9,352
€2.40/l9,031
€2.40/l8,833
€2.40/l8,724
€2.40/l8,855
€2.39/l9,091
€2.39/l9,065
€2.38/l9,119
€2.38/l9,032
€2.38/l8,916
€2.38/l8,767
€2.37/l8,924
€2.37/l9,053
€2.36/l9,101
€2.35/l9,155
€2.35/l9,155
€2.35/l9,091
€2.35/l8,974
€2.36/l9,072
€2.36/l9,184
€2.36/l9,212
€2.36/l9,222
€2.37/l9,163
€2.37/l8,980
Calculation details

Values below are the unrounded daily national averages used for every figure in this article, shown to 6 decimal places. Percentage change = (later average − earlier average) ÷ earlier average × 100.

Unrounded inputs for every figure in this article.
MetricValueUnit
Diesel, daily national average on 12 October 20262.353825EUR/l
Diesel, daily national average on 18 October 20262.368642EUR/l
Difference, 12 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Diesel0.014817EUR/l
Percentage change, 12 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Diesel0.6295%
Petrol, daily national average on 12 October 20262.170199EUR/l
Petrol, daily national average on 18 October 20262.172487EUR/l
Difference, 12 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Petrol0.002288EUR/l
Percentage change, 12 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Petrol0.1054%
Petrol, daily national average on 17 October 20262.167326EUR/l
Percentage change, 17 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Petrol0.2381%
Diesel, daily national average on 11 October 20262.351965EUR/l
Percentage change, 11 October 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Diesel0.7090%
Diesel, daily national average on 21 July 20262.130295EUR/l
Percentage change, 21 July 2026 to 18 October 2026 — Diesel11.1884%

Source and method

Prices are reported by station operators to prix-carburants.gouv.fr (Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique). We collect them once a day and calculate the averages in this article ourselves. The national average is the unweighted mean of the 8,980 stations that reported a valid price for diesel, after we drop readings outside our plausibility range. Full method: how we calculate.

This article reports only what our calculations from station-price data show. It does not attribute the change to any cause.

The data behind this article

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Data details
Provenance and version of the data used in this article.
Data snapshot18 October 2026 (Europe/Paris)
Method version2026-08-06.1
Template version2.0.0
Source freshnessLast collection cycle of the day: 2026-10-18 23:56:22; 8,980 readings collected that day.
IncludedGazole (B7): 8,980 stations with a valid price
Excluded0 readings outside the plausibility range 0.50–5.00 a litre, 0 flagged by the source, 0 from stations not in our catalogue
Matched coverage8,675 stations reported on both 12 October 2026 and 18 October 2026 — 96.7% of the smaller daily sample
CorrectionsNo corrections

This article was generated automatically from fuel-prices.eu calculations based on station prices reported to prix-carburants.gouv.fr and collected once a day. It was produced from fixed sentence templates with numeric slots, by the fuel-prices.eu data desk; no language model writes at publication time. How we calculate.

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