Fuel prices near you

Petrol stations no longer choose whether to tell you what they charge. Since the Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025, publishing pump prices is a legal obligation, and a change has to be reported within thirty minutes of the pump being changed.

What Fuel Finder is

Fuel Finder is a UK government service that brings together live retail fuel prices and forecourt information across the UK. It exists because the Competition and Markets Authority found drivers were paying more than they needed to, simply because nobody could compare prices without driving past.

The important part is that it is not voluntary. Filling stations are required to report their prices, and the Competition and Markets Authority has enforcement powers over those that do not. Around 90 per cent of stations were signed up when the government published its driver factsheet, and the government estimates the scheme saves a car-owning household roughly £40 a year.

Thirty minutes. That is the rule. If a station changes its price at half past four, the new price has to be reported by five. It is the closest thing to a live price a national scheme has ever produced.

What you see in the app

Type a postcode. You get every participating station within the distance you choose, the price of each grade, and how long ago that price last moved.

Fuel price search by postcode in My Cars App — Search by postcode. No location permission is ever requested.

Fuel prices listed by station with the cheapest highlighted — The cheapest grade in range, then every station, nearest or cheapest first.

A single filling station with prices for each fuel grade — One station: every grade it sells, and when each price last changed.

The grades, in plain words

On the pump	What it is
E10	Standard unleaded petrol, and the cheapest petrol on most forecourts.
E5	Super unleaded. A higher octane grade, and always dearer than E10.
Diesel (B7)	Standard diesel.
Diesel+	The premium diesel grade, sold under a different name by each brand.

Where a grade shows a dash in the list, or not reported on a station’s page, the station has not submitted a price for that grade to the scheme. It may still be sold at the pump — the gap is in the data, not necessarily on the forecourt.

Prices that have not moved for weeks

You will see stations whose price last changed a month ago sitting next to one that changed this morning. Both are current. A price only has to be reported when it changes, so a long gap means a station has held its price, not that the data is stale.

Where a price has moved, the app shows the direction and the size of the change since the last time it moved — up two pence, down a penny — however long ago that was.

Why a postcode and not your location

Because the app never asks for location permission, on any screen. You type a postcode, or save one as home. That is a deliberate choice: a fuel price app has no business knowing where you are parked, and every other feature works the same way.

No account, no tracking in the app. The app holds no account for you, uploads nothing, and uses no analytics or advertising software. Your postcode stays on your phone.

Where the numbers come from

Retailer prices published under the government's Fuel Finder scheme. We do not set them, edit them or estimate them. If a price on the forecourt differs from a price here, the sign on the forecourt is the one you pay — a station has half an hour to report a change, and the app can only show what has been reported.

Fuel sits alongside MOT, road tax, safety recalls and your renewal dates in one app. See how it works.