Fuel prices by zone and grade

Records in the live release

16,641

Release 2026-11-04, 9 November 2026. Its fingerprint: d12d4dc89e3db3ab6ac0cbc882ca2ff148f90325116f1855a705b2884b2bc037 (what that is).

How far it reaches

16,641 regulated prices from the monthly fuel price regulations in the Government Gazette: petrol (93 and 95, unleaded and lead replacement) and LPG in all 54 Magisterial District Zones, LPG imported through Saldanha Bay from January 2026, and illuminating paraffin's single maximum national retail price, for 61 monthly adjustments from 3 February 2021 to 4 November 2026. Not on the Government Printing Works' site: March to October 2021 and February 2022. Diesel and the price build-up (list price, zone differential, dealer margin) aren't gazetted, so they aren't included.

How often it changes

Monthly

Prices change on the first Wednesday of each month; the regulations with every zone's prices appear in the Government Gazette a day or so before. The daily check adds the month from the Government Printing Works' site as soon as the gazette is there (node scripts/datasets/fuel-prices.mjs --latest); the cloud job is paused.

Where the figures come from

Government Gazette (Government Printing Works). Figures from official texts (Government Gazette notices, regulator decisions): no copyright in them under the Copyright Act, s12(8)(a).

On this site

See fuel prices, free, no account.

Through the API

/v1/datasets/fuel-prices/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.

All of it at once (Parquet)

The full history, built with release 2026-11-04. A download takes a key; the fingerprints are public. How to download a snapshot.

• fuel-prices-2026-11-04-records.parquet: 16,641 record rows (every release), 951 kB. sha256 89c78776da565267…
• fuel-prices-2026-11-04-facts.parquet: 16,641 facts with their pages, 416 kB. sha256 071a7b90c2dabafd…

For data portals

Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.