diesel hits March highs and gasoline hits July highs
The price of fuel has chained its fourth week of increases, thus consolidating diesel at its highest levels since March, while gasoline has not been so expensive since the end of July.
Specifically, The average price of a liter of diesel has been 1,456 euros, after rising 0.9% this week, according to data from the EU Oil Bulletin. For its part, The average price of a liter of gasoline has registered an increase of 0.27% compared to last week, to advance to 1,489 euros.
With these latest rises, So far in 2025, gasoline has dropped by 2.3% compared to the end of the previous year, while diesel is already 0.9% more expensive compared to the price at which it ended in 2024.
In addition, Filling an average tank of 55 liters of diesel costs about 80 eurosalmost two euros more than on the same dates last year, when it amounted to about 78.1 euros.
For its part, for gasoline vehicles, filling an average tank (55 liters) represents a current disbursement of about 81.89 euros1.2 euros less than a year ago, when it exceeded 83.1 euros.
The average price per liter of diesel still remains below the levels it was before the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, when it was 1,479 euros per liter. Gasoline, meanwhile, also continues below the price of 1,591 euros per liter that it had at that time.
Furthermore, both fuels continue to be far from the maximums recorded in the summer of 2022, in July, when gasoline reached 2,141 euros and diesel 2.1 euros.
Diesel: 143 weeks below gasoline
Diesel has now been below the price of gasoline for 143 weeks. Thus, it remains in the usual situation prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which caused the price of diesel was more expensive than that of gasoline continuously from August 2022 until mid-February 2023, when the dynamic was broken.
The price of fuel depends on multiple factors, such as its specific price (independent of that of oil), the evolution of crude oil, taxes, the cost of raw materialsWoe to logistics and gross margins.
Besides, The evolution of the price of crude oil does not translate directly to fuel prices, but does so with a temporary offset.
Prices in Spain, cheaper than in Europe
With these levels, the price of 95 unleaded gasoline in Spain remains below the European Union average, located at 1.645 euros per liter, and the eurozone, with an average price of 1,694 euros.
In the case of diesel, The price in Spain is also lower than the EU average, which is 1,608 euros, and from the euro zone, where it has a price of 1,632 euros.
