Live Petrol and Diesel Prices Today - 34 States and UTs

What is Fuel Price & Why It Changes?

Fuel price is what you pay per litre for petrol or diesel at the pump today, and in India it's rarely the same number twice in a row for long: it's revised daily, not fixed for the month the way it once was. That matters directly to the household budget of anyone who drives, rides a two-wheeler, or runs a business with a delivery fleet or a fleet of autos and taxis. A ten or twenty paisa daily change looks small, but it compounds over a full tank and a full year of commuting, and it moves the price of anything transported by road, which in India is nearly everything. A family in Mumbai filling a 40 litre tank feels a genuinely different bill during a month of rising crude prices than during a calm one, even without changing their driving habits at all.

How Fuel Price Works in India

Petrol, officially called Motor Spirit (MS), and diesel, officially High Speed Diesel (HSD), are priced by the country's three big state-owned oil companies: Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum. Each morning they revise rates based on international crude oil prices and the rupee-dollar exchange rate from the previous day's trading, since India imports the large majority of the crude it refines. On top of that base price, every state adds its own VAT and cess, and those state taxes are why the same litre of petrol can cost noticeably more just by crossing a state border, even though the base fuel cost is identical everywhere. That's also why this page compares prices state by state rather than showing one single number for the whole country: there genuinely isn't one.

How to Interpret Fuel Price Numbers

There's no danger scale here the way there is for AQI, just rupees and paise, so the number to focus on is the daily change and how a state compares to its neighbours. A change of a few paise a day is routine and follows normal crude oil movement. A state showing up several rupees higher than a bordering state is usually a sign of a bigger gap in local VAT rather than anything about the fuel itself, and it's worth knowing if you regularly cross that border anyway. Watching the trend over a week tells you more than any single day's number: a steady week-on-week rise usually tracks a genuine move in global crude prices, not a one-off local blip.

Best Times to Check Fuel Price & Decision Making

Fuel prices in India are revised every morning around 6 AM, so checking before you head out for a fill-up gives you the actual rate for that day rather than yesterday's. If you live near a state border, this page's state comparison is worth a look before a long drive: filling up just across the line in a lower-VAT state can save a meaningful amount on a long trip, though it rarely makes sense to cross a border just to save on a routine local commute. There's no strong seasonal pattern the way there is with gold or AQI, prices track global crude and the rupee more than the calendar, so the better habit is simply checking before any big trip rather than assuming today's price matches what you paid last month.

📊 Fuel Price Trends (31-Day)

24h: ↓ -0.9% 7d: ↓ -2.3% Since 3 Aug: ↓ -1.0%

Seasonal pattern: Fuel doesn't follow a real seasonal pattern the way gold or AQI does, it tracks global crude oil prices and the rupee's exchange rate more than the calendar, so there's no reliable "cheap month" to wait for.

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