Fuel prices continue to decline and become cheaper on the eve of the Christmas holidays

Fuel prices have continued to decline this weekwith a drop of up to 1.11% and thus maintaining the trend of declines that began two weeks ago, on the verge of the start of the summer holidays. Christmas.

Specifically, The average price of a liter of diesel has been 1,421 eurosafter falling 1.11% this week, according to data from the EU Oil Bulletin.

For its part, The average price per liter of gasoline has registered a decrease of 0.54% compared to last week, to fall back to 1,470 euros.

With these declines, So far in 2025, gasoline has dropped by 3% compared to the end of the previous year, while diesel is 0.76% cheaper compared to the price at which it ended in 2024.

In addition, Filling an average tank of 55 liters of diesel costs about 78.15 eurosabout 55 euro cents less than on the same dates last year, when it amounted to about 78.70 euros.

For its part, for gasoline vehicles, filling an average tank (55 liters) represents a current disbursement of about 80.85 euros2.42 euros less than a year ago, when it exceeded 83.27 euros.

The average price per liter of diesel 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.

Far from the maximums recorded in the summer of 2022

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 has now been below the price of gasoline for 146 weeks. It thus remains in the usual situation prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which caused theThe 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 materials and logistics, and gross margins. Besides, The evolution in the price of crude oil does not directly affect fuel prices, but it does so with a time lag.

Besides, The evolution in the price of crude oil does not directly affect fuel prices, but it does so with a time lag.

Prices in Spain, cheaper than in the EU

With these levels, the price of 95 unleaded gasoline in Spain remains below the average of the European Union, located at 1,611 euros per liter, and of the eurozone, with a average price of 1,661 euros.

In the case of diesel, The price in Spain is also lower than the EU averagewhich is 1,549 euros, and from the euro zone, where it has a price of 1,572 euros.