Diesel costs an average of €1.872 a litre in the Almanzora Valley, 40.4% more than a year ago

A litre of diesel is selling for an average of €1.872 this Tuesday at filling stations in the Almanzora Valley, 40.4% more than a year ago. A litre of 95 petrol costs €1.879, 33.1% more, according to the prices reported to the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and analysed station by station by elValle Actualidad.

• €1.872 is the average price of a litre of diesel at the 23 filling stations in the Valley that sell it
• +40.4% in a year: 53.8 cents more per litre than on 29 September 2025
• +33.1% is the rise in 95 petrol over a year, to €1.879 a litre
• €10 is the difference in filling up with 50 litres of diesel between the cheapest filling station and the most expensive

Even so, the Valley is still below the average. Diesel costs an average of €1.908 across the province of Almería as a whole, €1.947 in Andalusia and €1.930 in Spain, and 95 petrol €1.912, €1.950 and €1.934. Compared with the Spanish average, a litre of diesel is 5.8 cents cheaper in the Valley: €2.91 less when filling a 50-litre tank.

Only 98 petrol and autogas, which are sold at very few stations, cost more in the Valley than the Spanish average: 3.9 and 3.1 cents more per litre.

A year of price rises

Until March, prices barely moved. Between September 2025 and 1 March 2026, diesel in the Valley ranged between €1.312 and €1.388 a litre, and 95 petrol between €1.386 and €1.422. The big jump came in March: on 1 April, diesel already cost €1.730. It then fell to €1.529 on 1 July, but it has been rising again since then: €1.723 on 1 August, €1.783 on 30 August and €1.872 this Tuesday.

For petrol, the biggest rise has come in the last month: 22.4 cents since 30 August, or 13.5%, compared with 8.9 cents for diesel (5.0%). Diesel, which a year ago was cheaper than petrol (€1.333 compared with €1.412), now costs practically the same.

The rise is being felt across Spain: inflation (CPI) rises to 4.9% in September, according to the flash estimate released this Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE), which points to fuel as one of the causes.

Until 30 September, the cut in hydrocarbon tax that the Spanish government approved in June as part of its plan to respond to the crisis in the Middle East remains in force: this month, 20 cents per litre on diesel and 5 on petrol. As reported in advance by elDiario.es and El Debate, the Council of Ministers is approving its extension until the end of the year this Tuesday; for diesel, the discount will be reduced month by month.

Station by station

The cheapest litre is in Arboleas and Zurgena: E. S. Arboleas, on the Los Llanos industrial estate, and Oil Barol, in La Alfoquía, sell diesel and 95 petrol at €1.799. At the other end of the scale, the five stations branded Repsol, Cepsa or BP sell diesel at between €1.969 and €1.999, above the Spanish average. The most expensive for 95 petrol is the Cepsa station in Oria, at €2.019.

Choosing the right filling station makes a difference to your pocket: filling a 50-litre tank with diesel costs €89.95 at the cheapest and €99.95 at the most expensive, a difference of €10. With 95 petrol, the difference reaches €11. The most common price for diesel is €1.839: it is the price at ten of the 23 filling stations in the Valley that sell it.

In 14 of the 27 municipalities there is not a single filling station open to the public: Alcóntar, Armuña de Almanzora, Bacares, Bayarque, Chercos, Cóbdar, Laroya, Líjar, Lúcar, Partaloa, Sierro, Somontín, Suflí and Urrácal. Their residents have to go to another town to fill up.

The prices in your town

These are the prices at each filling station in the Valley, town by town.

Municipality	Filling station	Diesel (€/l)	95 petrol (€/l)
Albánchez	Carburantes Filabres	1.859	1.859
Albox	BP San Jose	1.998	1.989
Albox	Carburantes Almanzora SL	1.839	1.879
Albox	E. S. Terdiguera	1.829	1.849
Albox	Raspa-Oil (Serv. Atendido)	1.897	1.887
Arboleas	E. S. Arboleas	1.799	1.799
Arboleas	Mora Oil	1.839	1.829
Cantoria	Carburantes de Cantoria	1.855	—
Cantoria	Indapak Logistics (La Hojilla)	1.859	1.859
Fines	Coop. Tracomar	1.809	—
Fines	Gonzalez Cañabate Carburantes (Cañada de las Cruces)	1.839	1.839
Fines	Repsol	1.999	1.999
Fines	Suimasa (La Estación)	1.839	1.839
Macael	Ntra Sra del Rosario	1.839	1.839
Macael	Suimasa	1.839	1.839
Olula del Río	EE. SS. San Sebastian	1.839	1.839
Oria	Cepsa	1.999	2.019
Purchena	Suimasa	1.839	1.839
Serón	Hafesa (Los Claveros)	1.839	1.889
Taberno	Cepsa	1.985	1.958
Tíjola	Repsol	1.969	1.969
Tíjola	Volacan	1.839	1.839
Zurgena	Oil Barol SL (La Alfoquía)	1.799	1.799
Valley average		1.872	1.879

Every month, elValle Actualidad will review prices at the Valley’s filling stations so that you can check where it is cheapest to fill your tank.