Fuel prices: Almost 10 cents east-west gap at the petrol station

The differences in fuel between the individual federal states are currently unusually high. At super gasoline of the E10 variety, 9.9 cents per liter are by far the cheapest and Saxony-Anhalt as the most expensive country, as the ADAC determined. Mind you based on the respective nationwide average. The distances between individual petrol stations can be significantly higher.

At Diesel, the Saarland is also clearly the cheapest. Here Brandenburg is located at the other end of the scale – with a price surcharge of 7.8 cents per liter. In Saxony-Anhalt it is 7.7 cents, which makes the state most expensive across all sorts.

Overall, there is a clear gradient between the rather cheap west and south and the rather expensive east and north. Among the six cheapest countries there are also Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Berlin. The latter is a cheap island in the otherwise rather expensive east. It could possibly play a role here that, given the high petrol station density, there is a high competition in the face of high petrol station density – with dampening effects on the price, as the Bundeskartellamt recently suspected.

Not every big city is cheap

In Hamburg, however, this effect does not seem to be used. The city -state is the third -party country at E10, the fourth most in Diesel. In addition to Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, it is also rather expensive for both varieties in Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.

The evaluation was based on the fuel prices registered at the market transparency center of around 14,000 petrol stations in Germany on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. Unlike the fuel prices registered by the ADAC weekly, there is no daily average.

If you want to recharge your batteries, but do not live in Saarland, you also have other options. In particular, the ADAC advises you to refuel in the evening and avoid motorway filling stations.