How it works

Prices are shown in pence per litre (p/L), for example 139.9 p/L. Each grade is compared only with the same grade: E10 petrol, E5 super unleaded and standard B7 diesel are never mixed. Premium diesel is labelled separately on station pages. A station with no usable current price is listed separately and can never be shown as the cheapest.

“Cheapest in this search” means the lowest reported price among the stations matching your fuel and radius. It is not a claim about the cheapest price in the UK.

Distances are straight-line (“as the crow flies”) from your postcode or location, not driving distances or journey times. The radius filter (1, 3, 5, 10 or 25 miles) uses each station's coordinates. Use the Directions link to plan the actual route in your maps app.

Retailers report price changes to the UK Government's Fuel Finder service, and our servers check for updates regularly. Each price shows when the station reported it (“Price reported”). Separately, we show when our service last fetched data successfully (“Feed checked”). If updates are delayed we say so. Reporting and processing delays mean a price may have changed: always check the price at the pump.

An old “Price reported” time doesn't necessarily mean the price is wrong — some stations keep the same price for a while. Prices not reported for over 30 days are still shown with their date, but left out of averages, trends and “cheapest” lists, because the station may have stopped reporting. We don't independently verify prices.

Fuel price data: UK Government Fuel Finder. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PetrolNearby is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the UK Government. About Fuel Finder.

Postcode lookup: postcodes.io, using Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and Office for National Statistics data (Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right; Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0). Northern Ireland (BT) postcode search is not available yet — use your location instead.

Maps: on the web, map tiles and map data attribution are shown on the map itself (© OpenStreetMap contributors). In the iOS and Android apps, Apple Maps or Google Maps show their own attribution.