Standard diesel (B7) · counted from government data
2683 UK forecourts are charging £2 or more for diesel
Another 2512 are at exactly 199.9p — one price move from £2. That is 5195 of 7983 forecourts (65.08%) at 199.9p or above.
Based on government data published . Our records begin 23 September 2026.
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The last 12 days
1,141 forecourts were at £2+ on 23 September 2026; 2683 are today. The national average has moved from 197.5p to 200.0p (+2.5p) over the same 12 days.
Where £2 diesel is concentrated
Postcode areas with at least 5 forecourts reporting diesel — 564 areas qualify (3653 forecourts). Areas with fewer are left out of this ranking because “100% above £2” on three forecourts is noise, but those forecourts are still counted in every national figure on this page.
Highest share at £2+
| Area | At £2+ | Share | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| SO21 | 8 of 8 | 100.0% | 206.8p |
| BR6 | 7 of 7 | 100.0% | 205.0p |
| SL6 | 7 of 7 | 100.0% | 202.5p |
| BA22 | 6 of 6 | 100.0% | 203.3p |
| BH24 | 6 of 6 | 100.0% | 203.1p |
| IV27 | 6 of 6 | 100.0% | 209.0p |
| OX7 | 6 of 6 | 100.0% | 202.9p |
| G83 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 204.9p |
| HS2 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 209.3p |
| LA8 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 205.1p |
| LE12 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 203.1p |
| M14 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 202.3p |
| RG4 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 202.1p |
| RM10 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 206.3p |
| SK11 | 5 of 5 | 100.0% | 202.7p |
Lowest share at £2+
| Area | At £2+ | Share | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| WD6 | 0 of 6 | 0.0% | 198.2p |
| WF1 | 0 of 5 | 0.0% | 199.3p |
| WF10 | 0 of 9 | 0.0% | 197.6p |
| WF12 | 0 of 8 | 0.0% | 189.4p |
| WN7 | 0 of 7 | 0.0% | 192.4p |
| WR11 | 0 of 5 | 0.0% | 199.9p |
| WS2 | 0 of 5 | 0.0% | 199.7p |
| WV13 | 0 of 5 | 0.0% | 199.9p |
| YO12 | 0 of 7 | 0.0% | 199.9p |
| YO17 | 0 of 5 | 0.0% | 198.9p |
These are the extremes of 564 qualifying areas, not the whole list. Averages are equal-station, like the national figure.
Why diesel is close to £2
The RAC reported the UK average diesel price reached a record 199.18p on 28 September 2026. That is their figure, published in their own release — the highest level in UK history, passing the previous record of 199.09p set in June 2022. Their head of policy, Simon Williams, called it “a financial blow to households and businesses that use their vehicles regularly” (RAC, 28 September 2026). The trigger widely reported is the conflict in the Middle East pushing up the cost of fuel.
That is the RAC's figure, not ours. Our own equal-station average — which counts every forecourt once, rather than weighting by how much fuel it sells — is 200.0p across 7983 forecourts in the data published 4 October 2026 at 09:00 UTC. The two measures are close because diesel really is near £2 almost everywhere, but they are not the same number and should not be read as one.
We cannot tell you whether diesel is at a record high for us to observe, because our records only begin on 23 September 2026. What we can show you is the shape of the last 12 days: 1,141 forecourts at £2+ then, 2683 now, and an average that has moved +2.5p in that time.
How we count
Every figure on this page is computed from the same government fuel price data the rest of Forecourt UK uses, published 4 October 2026 at 09:00 UTC. Nothing here is estimated, modelled, or typed in by hand.
- Standard diesel only (B7). Premium diesel is a different product at a different price and is excluded from every number here.
- One forecourt, one vote. The national figure is an equal-station average: each forecourt counts once, whatever its size. Nobody publishes litres sold per forecourt, so weighting by volume is not possible and we do not pretend otherwise.
- £2+ means 200.0p or more. 199.9p is not £2 and is never counted in that figure — it has its own line, because it is the single most common price in the country. “Within 5p of £2” means 195.0p to 199.8p inclusive.
- A price counts until the retailer reports a different one. The data carries a timestamp of when each price was last set — median 6.1 days in this snapshot, with 55.7% set within the last week. We deliberately do not filter on it: doing so would have discarded most of the country, because an old timestamp is the normal state of a price that has not moved, not a sign that it is stale. On this snapshot, counting only prices set in the last 24 hours would have left only 247 of 7,983 forecourts (3.1%) — an average 0.8p lower than the 200.0p the country actually reports, so the filter would have changed the picture rather than cleaned it
- Nothing is hidden. A handful of prices are flagged internally as implausible and are reviewed by a person. They are still counted here: on this snapshot excluding every flagged forecourt would move the headline by 7 forecourts carry a flag; excluding them all would take the £2+ count from 2,683 to 2,682 and would move the national average by 0.009p.
- Areas need 5 forecourts to be ranked — see the note above the area tables.
- The trend is rebuilt from our own change log. We record a price when it changes, so each day's figure is reconstructed by carrying every forecourt's most recent price forward to that day. Our records begin 23 September 2026.
Data source: UK government fuel price data, published , containing public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Prices are in pence per litre, as reported to the government scheme — not always the price at the pump today. Forecourt UK is independent of the government and of the RAC.