Overview

• National Q3 averages were €1.72 per liter for E5, €1.67 for E10, and €1.59 for diesel, with a slight uptick noted at the end of September.
• Price differences reached about 20 cents per liter between areas, with clusters of higher prices around Dresden, in parts of Saxony-Anhalt including Landkreis Börde, and in northwestern Brandenburg.
• Some border regions and islands such as Sylt and Rügen also showed elevated prices, while parts of Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony, Bavaria, Berlin, and Saarland were comparatively cheaper.
• The Bundeskartellamt has not identified a single cause or evidence of collusion, and its chief Andreas Mundt called the eastern prices “auffällig hoch” and said the pattern will be examined.
• Urban prices peaked around 07:00 and were lowest between 17:00 and 21:00, yielding savings of roughly 11 cents per liter by refueling at 19:00; about 15,000 stations report changes within five minutes, apps use this data, and stations average roughly 22 price adjustments per day.