Where our prices come from
Petrol Smart reads each market’s official fuel price feed directly. Every price records where it came from and when it was last seen, and this page lists every feed we read, how often we read it, and who we credit for it.
Every state and territory
One row per Australian jurisdiction, with the accent it carries everywhere else across Petrol Smart. Source names are the schemes' own.
| State | Source | Read | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSWNew South Wales | FuelCheck NSW | Every 30 minutes | Official government feed. |
| VICVictoria | Victorian fuel price data | Every 15 minutes | Official feed runs about a day behind. User reports override it. |
| QLDQueensland | Queensland Fuel Prices (Open Data) | Every 15 minutes | Official government feed. |
| SASouth Australia | SA Fuel Pricing Information Scheme | Every 15 minutes | Official government feed. |
| WAWestern Australia | FuelWatch WA | Every 15 minutes | Publishes tomorrow’s price a day ahead. |
| TASTasmania | Tasmanian fuel price data | Every 30 minutes | Arrives through the New South Wales FuelCheck service. |
| NTNorthern Territory | MyFuel NT | Every 15 minutes | Official government feed. |
| ACTAustralian Capital Territory | FuelCheck NSW | Every 30 minutes | Arrives through the New South Wales FuelCheck service. |
The Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania are both resolved out of the New South Wales FuelCheck service, which is why they share its reading interval.
Victoria works differently
The one state where your report can beat the official feed.
Victoria has an official government feed and we read it on the same interval as the other open-data states. The difference is timing: the official data runs about a day behind what is on the board. So Victoria is the one state where a fresh user report overrides the official price, and where reporting a price you have just seen genuinely helps whoever fills up next.
Western Australia publishes tomorrow
A fact, not a forecast.
Western Australian retailers lock in a price a day ahead under the FuelWatch scheme, so tomorrow’s price is published rather than predicted. It appears on Western Australian station pages beneath today’s price, labelled as tomorrow’s published price. No other Australian market publishes one.
Reporting a price
Available in Victoria today.
Because the Victorian feed runs behind, anyone in Victoria can report a price they have just seen and it takes priority over the official number. Reporting is not offered anywhere else: not in the other Australian states, where the official feed is current within its reading interval, and not in the United Kingdom, where every price comes from Fuel Finder. Reported prices are labelled as community reports wherever they appear, so they are never mixed with official data.
UK Fuel Finder
The government-backed scheme UK retailers publish their prices to.
Fuel Finder is the scheme through which fuel retailers in the United Kingdom report their prices for public use, and it publishes them through the UK Fuel Finder public API(opens in a new tab). Petrol Smart reads that API through the day and labels every price that comes from it.
User price reports are not accepted at United Kingdom forecourts — reporting is offered in Victoria only — so every UK price Petrol Smart shows comes from Fuel Finder.
Spotted a price or forecourt detail that is wrong? Report it to gov.uk(opens in a new tab) — corrections made at UK Fuel Finder reach every service that reads it, including Petrol Smart.
Fuel types we cover
Each market publishes its own grades. These are the names we use, and the short forms you will see on the map.
Australia
- Unleaded 91
- ULP 91
- Premium 95
- Prem 95
- Premium 98
- Prem 98
- Diesel
- Diesel
- Premium Diesel
- Prem Diesel
- LPG
- LPG
- Ethanol 10
- E10
- Ethanol 85
- E85
United Kingdom
- Unleaded (E10)
- E10
- Super Unleaded (E5)
- E5
- Diesel (B7)
- Diesel
- Premium Diesel
- Premium Diesel
- HVO Diesel
- HVO
- Diesel (B10)
- B10
Who we credit
Assembled from our source register, so this page, the site footer and the state pages cannot disagree.
Australia
- Fuel pricesCredited as good practice
- Fuel pricesCredited as good practice
- Fuel pricesCredited as good practice
- Fuel pricesCredited as good practice
- Fuel pricesAttribution required
Based on or contains data provided by the State of South Australia (Office of Consumer and Business Services 2021-2023. Copyright of the State of South Australia
- Fuel pricesCredited as good practice
- Fuel pricesCredited as good practice
- EV chargersAttribution required
- Suburb & postcode searchAttribution required
United Kingdom
- Suburb & postcode searchAttribution required
Canada (Québec)
- Fuel pricesAttribution required
- Suburb & postcode searchAttribution required
Suburb, town and postcode search runs on OpenStreetMap data, which is why its contributors are credited in every market listed above.
Common questions
- How often do prices update?
- Most Australian state feeds are read every 15 minutes. New South Wales, the ACT and Tasmania share the FuelCheck service and are read every 30 minutes. State averages recompute on the same cadence.
- Why is a price different from the pump?
- Feeds are published by retailers and regulators on their own schedule, and prices change in between. Victoria runs about a day behind, which is why user reports take priority there.
- Where does Tasmania’s data come from?
- Tasmanian fuel price data arrives through the New South Wales FuelCheck service, which is why the two share a reading interval.
- What about suburb and postcode search?
- That runs on OpenStreetMap data, which we credit in every market.