Canary Islands: Fuel is getting more and more expensive - a 30-cent difference between the islands

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Diesel costs an average of 1.543 euros in the Canary Islands, reaching a new high.
Premium petrol remains at the previous week's price, averaging 1.451 euros.
The price difference between the most expensive and cheapest islands is 29.8 cents for diesel and 23.9 cents for petrol.

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The price of diesel on El Hierro has risen by 2.8 cents per litre in the space of a week. The small island has only a few petrol stations. The average price there was 1.772 euros. No other island has recently had more expensive fuel.

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The average price of diesel in the Canary Islands is currently 1.543 euros. That is 0.9 cents more than a week ago. On average across all petrol stations, premium petrol costs 1.451 euros, which is exactly the same as the previous week. At least on average. Here, too, there are significant regional differences.

The price of diesel in the Canary Islands had previously reached the highest level in the data series. This has now been exceeded once again. Here is the comparison:

Diesel prices in the Canary Islands rise again

Depending on the fuel type, the ranking of the most expensive islands in the Canary Islands comparison has shifted. For diesel, La Gomera is particularly expensive and Fuerteventura is comparatively cheap. For petrol, the picture is different: Gran Canaria is relatively cheap, whilst La Gomera remains the most expensive island.

The spread between the extremes this week is 29.8 cent for diesel and 23.9 cent for petrol. Four of the seven islands are above the Canary Islands average for diesel, whilst five are above it for petrol.

The following table shows the price of diesel on the seven largest Canary Islands. As well as the island-wide average, it shows the price at the cheapest petrol station, the difference from the Canary Islands average, and the number of petrol stations included in the analysis.

Rank	Island	Average price	Cheapest petrol station	Difference from Canary Islands average	Petrol stations
1	Fuerteventura	1.485 euros	1.389 euros	5.8 cents cheaper	27
2	Gran Canaria	1,513 euros	1.399 euros	3.0 cents below	184
3	Lanzarote	1,535 euros	1.417 euros	0.8 cents below that	46
4	Tenerife	1.549 euros	1.419 euros	0.6 cents above	211
5	La Palma	1.747 euros	1.577 euros	20.4 cents above that	20
6	El Hierro	1.772 euros	1.693 euros	22.9 cents above	4
7	La Gomera	1,783 euros	1.759 euros	24.0 cents above that	7

A look at petrol prices illustrates particularly clearly just how much prices can vary within a single island: the cheapest petrol station in the Canary Islands was most recently found on Gran Canaria. It was 17.3 cents below the island’s average there.

Rank	Island	Average price	Cheapest petrol station	Difference from the Canary Islands average	Petrol stations
1	Gran Canaria	1.417 euros	1.244 euros	3.4 cents lower	184
2	Fuerteventura	1,422 euros	1.285 euros	2.9 cents below	27
3	Tenerife	1.452 euros	1.275 euros	0.1 cents above that	211
4	Lanzarote	1.468 euros	1.377 euros	1.7 cents above	46
5	La Palma	1.629 euros	1.445 euros	17.8 cents more	20
6	El Hierro	1.635 euros	1.562 euros	18.4 cents above	4
7	La Gomera	1.656 euros	1.649 euros	20.5 cents more than that	7

Fuel prices and the associated subsidies in the Canary Islands are based on those in Tenerife and Gran Canaria, which serve as benchmarks. On Tenerife, new record highs for fuel prices were recently recorded. As early as the previous week, the difference between the most expensive and the cheapest Canary Islands was around 30 cents.