The median unleaded price across Victoria is 236.8 c/L and diesel is 285.6 c/L, as at 29 September 2026. Unleaded is 0.8 c/L dearer than a week ago. That makes VIC the second cheapest of 8 jurisdictions reporting, 3.1 c/L below the middle of the pack.
Every figure below is the median price across all reporting Victoria sites, blended between Greater Melbourne and the rest of the state by population. A median, not an average, so a few sites pricing far above the rest cannot drag the headline up.
| Fuel | Median c/L | vs a week ago |
|---|---|---|
| Unleaded 91 | 236.8 | +0.8 c/L |
| Diesel | 285.6 | -1.5 c/L |
Diesel is running 48.8 c/L above unleaded in Victoria. Diesel does not follow the discounting cycles petrol does, so this gap moves with wholesale costs rather than with retailer pricing rounds.
Over the 78 days since 14 July 2026, unleaded in Victoria has ranged between 168.0 and 236.8 c/L, a spread of 68.8 c/L. The typical day-to-day move is 1.5 c/L, and the largest single day move was +7.1 c/L on 16 September 2026. That sits in the middle half of the 8 jurisdictions reporting, which are closely packed - on volatility alone there is little to separate Victoria from most of the country. The median also stood still on 5 of the last 14 days. That is the panel rather than the market: a median only moves when the middle site reprices, and Victoria has few enough reporting sites for that to be a quiet event.
Regional Victoria is paying 4.0 c/L more than Greater Melbourne today. Across the whole window the gap has averaged 3.3 c/L over 78 days, the second narrowest of the 5 jurisdictions publishing a split. It does not always run that way, though: across the window the gap ranged from -1.0 to 8.0 c/L, and on at least one day Greater Melbourne was the dearer of the two. Greater Melbourne and the rest of Victoria are not discounting in step, so in Victoria the country premium is a tendency worth checking rather than a rule to plan around. Greater Melbourne is the ABS Greater Capital City area; everything outside it counts as regional.
| Area | Unleaded c/L | Sites reporting |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Melbourne | 235.9 | 996 |
| Rest of VIC | 239.9 | 634 |
Sub-averages as at 29 September 2026.
Not on a weekly clock. Across 11 weeks of our own VIC readings, no single weekday stands out: the strongest is Wednesday, and it averages only +2.5 c/L, nowhere near enough to plan a fill-up around. There is a plainer reason than the window being short. The ACCC reports that petrol price cycles have mostly not occurred in Melbourne since late February 2026, so for the whole period we hold clean VIC figures there has been no cycle to show up - which is what our own readings independently find.
How Melbourne normally behaves, per the ACCC: The same sharp rise and gradual decline as Sydney, over a longer period. The ACCC put the Melbourne cycle at around 6 weeks across 2025, with recent cycles running 33 to 41 days. Its guidance on timing a fill-up here: No cycle running to time. Compare nearby sites instead.
| Day | Average change c/L |
|---|---|
| Sunday | +0.8 |
| Monday | -0.3 |
| Tuesday | +0.9 |
| Wednesday | +2.5 |
| Thursday | +1.2 |
| Friday | +0.4 |
| Saturday | +0.8 |
Mean day-over-day change in the VIC unleaded median, by day of the week, over 77 consecutive-day pairs. A short window: treat it as this season's pattern rather than a permanent one. The cycle length, the description of Melbourne and the timing guidance above are the ACCC Petrol Price Cycles in the 5 Largest Cities, last reviewed 18 August 2026; the weekday figures and the movement statistics are our own.
The Australian Institute of Petroleum publishes a terminal gate price for Victoria: what fuel costs leaving the terminal, before a retailer's own costs and margin. On 30 September 2026 that was 230.8 c/L for unleaded, against a pump median of 236.8 c/L - a gap of 6.0 c/L, and 21.4 c/L on diesel. That gap is not profit. It covers freight from the terminal, the site's own running costs, and whatever margin the retailer is taking.
Wholesale in Melbourne: 230.8 c/L on 30 September 2026, down 0.1 c/L on a week earlier. Direction steady: the latest five trading days against the five before, +1.6 per cent. How the direction is called.
The wholesale figure is published on weekdays and normally runs a day or two behind the pump figure, so the two dates above will rarely match exactly. The full build-up from barrel to bowser.
Every figure on this page comes from Service Victoria fuel prices (Servo Saver), run by the Victorian Government. It is an open data release carrying a mandatory 24 hour delay, the only embargoed state fuel feed in the country. We read it twice a day, take the median across the sites reporting, and publish it unaltered. We do not model, smooth or forecast the price.
That data is published under CC BY 4.0.
Fuel excise is a Commonwealth tax, so it is identical in Victoria and everywhere else. It returned to 53.7 c/L on 3 August 2026, worth up to about 18.8 c/L at the pump once GST is applied. Differences between states come from freight, competition and local costs, never from tax. What fuel excise costs per tank.
The national tracker: all eight jurisdictions, every fuel type, and what makes up a litre.
How these figures are derived: pricing methodology. Ways to pay less: save on fuel. Timing a fill-up in VIC: should I fill up today?