EU diesel prices, November 2026: how countries compare

The figures

The Weekly Oil Bulletin publishes consumer prices for petroleum products reported by the EU countries, with and without taxes. The table shows automotive gas oil (diesel) with taxes for selected road-freight markets, in euros per 1,000 litres as published. The per-litre column is the same figure divided by 1,000 and rounded.

Where the gaps are

Across all 27 countries in the file, the lowest diesel price was Malta's, at €1,210 per 1,000 litres, and the highest was Denmark's, at €2,528.87. Among the mainland markets in the table, Poland had the lowest figure.

• Germany's figure was €470.03 per 1,000 litres above Poland's, or about 47 cents a litre (our calculation from the bulletin figures).
• Romania's figure was €92.55 per 1,000 litres above Hungary's.
• Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary were within €3 per 1,000 litres of each other.
• The Netherlands and Belgium were both above €2,390 per 1,000 litres, about €314 and €244 above the EU average.

Poland, Germany and Spain had the highest shares of EU road freight tonne-kilometres in 2025, at 20.2%, 14.7% and 14.5%, according to Eurostat. Poland and Germany, the first two of those three, are far apart in the diesel table above, which is one reason the same lane can cost noticeably different amounts depending on where a truck refuels.

What the numbers do and do not show

The bulletin reports consumer prices. What an individual fleet pays depends on its own purchasing arrangements, such as fuel cards or bulk supply, so the pump price works as a reference point rather than as a fleet's actual cost.

The bulletin also publishes prices without taxes and a separate table of duties and taxes. Comparing those files shows how much of the gap between two countries comes from taxation rather than from the underlying product price.

A single week is a snapshot. The Commission publishes the bulletin weekly and keeps a price-history file going back to 2005, which is the better tool for spotting a trend.

Using the data when pricing a lane

For carriers and brokers who quote cross-border work, a few practical habits follow from the data:

• Check the latest bulletin week when pricing a lane, rather than reusing a figure from an older quote.
• Look at every country on the route, not only the origin and destination. On a Poland–Germany–Netherlands run, the countries in the table differ by more than €600 per 1,000 litres.
• Count empty kilometres too. An empty leg burns fuel without earning, so a return load in Europe changes the fuel cost per paid kilometre of the whole round trip.
• When comparing offers on finding truck loads in Europe, compare the total for the round trip, including where the truck is likely to refuel.

This article reports published price data. It is not a forecast of where diesel prices will go next.