UK red diesel price
The UK figure, month by month, with the news behind it.
Latest figure:
For October 2026, the UK red diesel price was 113.7 pence/litre. That is down 0.6% on the month before, 114.4 pence/litre for September 2026. Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
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What this price is
This is the typical UK retail price of red diesel (gas oil) for a bulk delivery, in pence per litre including VAT, as the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero publishes it each month in its Quarterly Energy Prices tables. The delivery size it covers is stated under the table below.
Farms, plant hire firms and building sites that run machinery on red diesel feel it directly. It is a monthly figure, published after the month ends, so it moves more slowly than the daily pump price: each row below is one published month, compared with the month before.
Month by month
| Month | Price | On the month before |
|---|---|---|
| 113.7 pence/litre | down 0.6% | |
| 114.4 pence/litre | up 14.3% | |
| 100.1 pence/litre | up 21.0% | |
| 82.74 pence/litre | down 0.9% | |
| 83.531 pence/litre | down 15.8% | |
| 99.157 pence/litre | down 10.7% | |
| 111.1 pence/litre | up 11.6% | |
| 99.509 pence/litre | up 50.7% |
Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. One reading per month, as published: UK red diesel (gas oil) price, 2,000 to 5,000 litre deliveries.
The latest readings
- : 113.7 pence/litre
- : 114.4 pence/litre
- : 100.1 pence/litre
- : 82.74 pence/litre
- : 83.531 pence/litre
- : 99.157 pence/litre
- : 111.1 pence/litre
- : 99.509 pence/litre
- : 66.012 pence/litre
- : 64.43 pence/litre
The news moving it
2 indexed analyses name this cost in the UK; newest first, each with its chain from the event to a business and its source.
- G7 to release up to 100m barrels of emergency oil and diesel reserves UK
- Oil prices have surged to $100 per barrel due to escalating conflicts in the Middle East, raising concerns about global oil supplies and potential inflationary pressures. UK
How this analysis was produced
- Data sources
- UK red diesel price: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Atri engine: indexed analyses
- What the AI did
- No AI wrote this page. It is assembled automatically from the stored readings of a published price series and the indexed analyses (each written by an AI model, with its own disclosure).
- Checked automatically
- every figure is a stored reading, quoted with its date and publisher; only indexed analyses are listed.
- What people did
- People chose the series and wrote the explanation of what it measures. No person reviews this page before its figures change.
- Data as of
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