Fuel prices in Cyprus today: petrol and diesel by district

Three road fuels across the five districts of the Republic. The average is the mean over every station the observatory listed for that district on the read date, not a mean of other averages, and the station count sits in the row so you can see how thin or thick each figure is. Heating oil and kerosene are on the observatory too and are left out here: neither goes into a hire car.

No, and it has not been for over three years. On the European Commission's weekly Cyprus series, diesel has cost more per litre than unleaded 95 every week since 19 June 2023, which is 168 consecutive weeks to the end of August 2026. A diesel hire car is not the cheaper car to run here.

This is the single most useful thing on the page, because it is the opposite of what most visitors expect. In the European Commission's Weekly Oil Bulletin, which has recorded Cypriot pump prices every week since January 2005, diesel sat below unleaded 95 for most of the series and then crossed above it and stayed there. The week ending 31 August 2026 had unleaded 95 at €1.602 and diesel at €1.857, a gap of 25.5 cents a litre. Our own station read finds the same gap in the same direction on the same three fuels, which is two independent instruments agreeing.

It matters less for our own fleet than for the market, because only one car on either of our rate cards is a diesel and everything else is petrol or a petrol hybrid. It matters if you are comparing operators. A diesel still uses fewer litres for the same distance, and on a long enough trip that can outweigh the price per litre, which is what the calculator above is for: put the same distance in twice, once at each consumption figure and each fuel price, and read the two costs.

Unleaded 98 is dearer than 95 again, and the gap between the cheapest and the dearest 98 pump on the island is wider than for either other fuel. Very few hire cars need it. Check the filler cap, not the price.

What a car hire in Cyprus actually costsDriving in Cyprus: the rules, the roads and the fuel

On this read Nicosia is the cheapest district for unleaded 95 and for diesel, and Paphos the dearest for all three fuels. On unleaded 95 the whole island sits inside about 17 cents a litre, so the gap between the cheapest and the dearest 95 pump in the country is under €7 on a 40-litre fill. Diesel and unleaded 98 spread wider. Worth knowing, not worth a detour.

The tables above rank themselves, and half of the obvious pattern holds while the other half does not. The two districts with the fewest stations, Paphos and Famagusta, do have the narrowest gap between their cheapest and dearest pump on unleaded 95 and on diesel: where twenty-seven or thirty-eight stations compete they sit within a few cents of each other. But the wide end does not follow station count at all. On unleaded 95 the widest spread in the country is Larnaca's, on fifty-seven stations, ahead of both Limassol and Nicosia, which have more. So read the spread column rather than inferring it from how busy a district looks.

Unleaded 98 reverses even the half that holds, and it is the more useful finding: on 98 the widest spread on the island is Paphos's, one of the two smallest districts, and Famagusta's narrowest is over eleven cents. The fuel almost no hire car needs is the one whose price varies most from forecourt to forecourt.

Paphos is our own home district, and it reads as the dearest one for both petrol and diesel, with the tightest spread of the three big towns on unleaded 95 and on diesel. We would rather say that than not: if you collect a car from us in Paphos and drive east, you will pay less at the pump in Limassol or Larnaca than you did at home.

There is a sharper way to read those tables, and it is the thing an average hides. The cheapest pump moves between districts considerably more than the district average does, on all three fuels: on unleaded 95 the cheapest pumps sit about nine cents apart across the five districts while the averages sit about four cents apart. What separates a cheap district from an expensive one is therefore not that its pumps charge less across the board. It is that somebody in it undercuts.

That is why the ranking you want depends on how you buy fuel. If you fill up wherever you happen to be, the district average is your number. If you will drive past three stations and pick one, the cheapest column is your number, and it varies between districts more than the average does.

None of which is a reason to plan a route around fuel. Driving twenty kilometres out of your way to save four cents a litre spends more fuel than it saves, and the calculator above will show you that in about ten seconds.

The observatory publishes a price per station, and stations change them independently, so the cheapest pump in a district today is not reliably the cheapest tomorrow. That is why this page prints an average with a count behind it rather than sending you to a named forecourt.

January and February. Across the 21 years of the weekly national series, unleaded 95 runs about 6 cents a litre below its own year's average in January and about 4 cents above it in July, so forty litres in summer costs roughly €4 more than the same forty litres in winter.

The seasonal shape, measured across the 21 years of the European Commission's weekly Cyprus series, is consistent enough to plan around: prices sit below the year's own average from November to March, cross it in April, and peak in July and August. That is the reverse of what a Cypriot searching for fuel prices in March might suggest, and the two facts do not contradict each other. Search interest spikes when prices move, and prices move most sharply in spring; the level is highest in high summer.

The sharpest four-week move the series contains is recent. Between 2 March and 30 March 2026 unleaded 95 went from €1.318 to €1.579 a litre, a rise of 26.1 cents, and diesel rose 42.5 cents over the same four weeks. That is the largest four-week rise in either fuel since the series began in 2005, larger than anything in the 2022 shock, whose all-time peak came later, on 4 July 2022, at €1.827 for unleaded 95 and €1.989 for diesel. Figures from the Weekly Oil Bulletin, read 8 September 2026.

For a hire that means the fuel line on a spring booking can be materially different from the one you budgeted for when you booked in January, and it means a quoted fuel figure more than a few weeks old is not worth much. That is the whole reason this page reads the source every day instead of quoting a number once.

A temporary cut in fuel excise duty is holding the price down by 8.33 cents a litre including VAT, and on the published timetable it runs to 17 September 2026. On a 40-litre fill that relief is worth €3.33, which is about 5% of what unleaded 95 costs today. Whether it continues past 18 September was still being described as under discussion a week beforehand.

The figures on this page are real prices that real stations are charging, so nothing above needs adjusting. What the relief means is that the number you are reading has a policy behind it with an end date on it, and that is worth knowing if you are budgeting for a hire that starts later in the month.

The mechanics, as reported: excise duty on petrol is reduced from €0.429 to €0.359 a litre and on diesel from €0.40 to €0.33, a cut of 7 cents in each case. Add VAT at 19% and the pump effect is 8.33 cents a litre, which is the figure the government has used. The arithmetic reconciles on both fuels, which is one reason we are willing to print it.

What we will not do is tell you it has been extended. An extension from 18 September was announced by the Finance Minister on 1 September 2026 as a bill going to cabinet and then to parliament, and on 6 September it was still being reported as under discussion. Two outlets give different end dates for it: one says a further one or two months from 18 September, another says November. We found no gazette notice, no Ministry of Finance announcement and no other primary source for any of it as at 8 September 2026, so this page reports what was published and settles nothing.

The reason that matters here rather than being someone else's problem: an industry body warned on 31 August 2026 that diesel could approach €2 a litre if the relief lapsed. Our own diesel figure above is well under that. If you come back to this page after 18 September and the diesel average has moved sharply, the change log below will say so and this is the paragraph that explains why.

Sources for this section are Cypriot news outlets, dated and named in the sources band and not linked, because none of them is a primary source and this site links only primary sources. The prices in the tables above are not affected by any of it: they are read from the government observatory and are what the pumps charge on the date shown.

Our cars go out full and come back full. If you return one short, we charge a refuelling fee plus the cost of the fuel we put in, and we do not publish that fee as a figure, so ask us for it when you collect rather than reading one off this page.

Full to full is the simplest of the fuel policies in this market and the one least likely to surprise you, because the only way to pay us anything for fuel is to bring the car back with less than you left with. Fill up before you return it, keep the receipt, and the fuel line on your hire is whatever the pump charged you and nothing else.

The prices above are what stations charge, not what we charge. We hire out cars; the fuel is between you and the forecourt. What the numbers are useful for is budgeting: take the distance you expect to drive, put it in the calculator at the district where you will fill up, and you have the fuel half of the trip cost in euros.

One practical note that costs people money. The cheapest pump in a district and the pump at the airport are rarely the same pump, and a car returned empty on the morning of a flight tends to get filled at whichever station is closest to the terminal. If you are on full to full, the last fill is the one to plan.

• Take a photograph of the fuel gauge and the odometer when you collect and when you return. It settles any question about either in one image.
• Diesel and petrol filler necks are not interchangeable on modern cars, but misfuelling still happens. The fuel type is on the cap and in your rental document.
• Unleaded 95 is the default for the cars we hire. Nothing in our fleet needs 98.

Car hire in PaphosLong-term and monthly car hireOwn a car or hire one in Cyprus?

We publish no prices for the Turkish-occupied north, and we would advise you not to plan a hire car around them. Your Republic of Cyprus cover stops at the Green Line, and the policy sold at a crossing is third-party only, so whatever a pump on the far side charges is not the number that decides this.

This question comes up because the search results mix the two, and because fuel in the north is quoted in a different currency at a different tax rate. The observatory this page reads covers the Republic of Cyprus, which is the only territory whose retail prices the Consumer Protection Service collects, so a northern figure is not something we hold or could date.

The insurance point is the one that matters and it is not about price. FCDO travel advice states that cars hired in the Republic of Cyprus often have no insurance cover in the north of the island, and that you will not be allowed through a crossing without the correct insurance documents. Cover for the north can be bought at some crossing points, and what it buys is third-party liability only: it pays for damage you do to other people and does nothing for damage to the hire car, its theft, or recovering it. Your excess protection does not travel either.

So the exposure is not a fine. It is the whole value of the car, on a vehicle you do not own, for the duration of the trip. Our own rental terms are the other half of the answer, and you should ask us before planning any crossing rather than reading a general rule off this page.

There is a second rule people run into, and this one is a customs matter with a primary source behind it. Fuel carried across the Green Line in a container, rather than in the vehicle's own tank, is compounded at €4 a litre by the Department of Customs and Excise. So the jerrycan plan is worse than the drive.

So if you were weighing a fill of cheaper fuel against that, there is nothing to weigh. Leave the hire car on this side.

Driving in Cyprus, including the Green Line crossingsCar hire excess and what the waiver covers

This log records a dated entry whenever the island average for a fuel moves by more than 2 cents a litre between two reads, with a sentence on what the move does to a hire. It is not a daily bulletin and it will be empty on quiet weeks.

The first read stored under this page was taken on 8 September 2026, so there is no earlier read to compare it with and no entry below it yet. The next move over the threshold will open the log. Every entry carries the two dates it sits between and the size of the move, so an entry can be checked against the stored reads rather than taken on trust.

One move is already scheduled rather than expected. The fuel excise relief described above runs to 17 September 2026 on the published timetable, and it is worth 8.33 cents a litre, which is four times the threshold this log uses. If it lapses, the entry for that week will be the largest this page has recorded; if it is extended, the log will say that instead and name the instrument that extended it.

We keep every day's read as a dated file, so any figure this page has ever shown can be re-checked against the day it was read. That is deliberate: a page that reports a number and then overwrites it is not a source anybody can cite.

There is no automatic news feed here and there will not be one. A summary of a price movement with nothing added is the kind of scaled content that damages a site, so an entry earns its place by saying what the move means for somebody hiring a car, or it is not written.

One read per fuel per district per day, fifteen requests, taken once each morning and never on page load. The figures you are looking at were computed on our server before the page was sent to you, from a file we store dated.

The source is an official form, not a data feed. The Consumer Protection Service publishes the observatory as a searchable page: you choose a fuel and a district and it returns a table of every station with its price to three decimal places. It is registered on the National Open Data Portal as a dataset with an API label, but the address behind that label is the same form, so there is no JSON and no CSV to fetch. We read the form.

Fifteen reads a day is the ceiling we set ourselves, one for each of the three road fuels in each of the five districts. The form also offers an all-districts option that would cut fifteen requests to three, and we do not use it, because the all-districts table drops the district column and we would have to guess each station's district from about three hundred Greek village names. Fifteen honest requests are better than three and a guess.

The averages are computed over stations, not over districts. An island figure recomputes from every station row rather than averaging the five district averages, because the second method would weight Famagusta's twenty-seven stations equally with Nicosia's hundred-odd and would answer a different question from the one the page asks.

The weekly national series is a separate source with a separate licence. It is the European Commission's Weekly Oil Bulletin, which member states report into and which carries Cyprus every week from January 2005. It is a national average, not a station read, so it is never mixed into the district tables or averaged with them. It is quoted per 1,000 litres at source and divided by 1,000 here.

If a morning read fails, the page keeps yesterday's figures and yesterday's date, and prints that date. Nothing here silently ages: a stale figure on this page is visible as a stale figure.

How we verify pricesCyprus route costs: taxi, bus, transfer and car hire

• Retail Fuel Price Observatory (Παρατηρητήριο Λιανικών Τιμών Καυσίμων), Consumer Protection Service, Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry, Republic of Cyprus. Station prices, daily, per district and per fuel. Re-used under CC BY-SA 4.0. (8 September 2026)
• Retail Fuel Price Observatory, dataset record on the National Open Data Portal, data.gov.cy, carrying the publisher, the contact address and the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence statement. (8 September 2026)
• Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, the licence on the observatory dataset. The dated station reads we store are redistributed under it; the district averages on this page are derived figures. (8 September 2026)
• Weekly Oil Bulletin, consumer prices of petroleum products inclusive of duties and taxes, Cyprus rows, European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy. Weekly national averages from 3 January 2005 to 31 August 2026, 1,082 observations. Re-used under CC BY 4.0. (8 September 2026)
• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, the licence on the weekly series. Attribution only, no share-alike condition, which is why it is named separately from the observatory's. (8 September 2026)
• FCDO travel advice for Cyprus: cars hired in the Republic often have no insurance cover in the north, no crossing admits a vehicle without the correct insurance documents, and cover bought at a crossing is third-party only. (9 September 2026)
• Department of Customs and Excise, Ministry of Finance: fuel carried across the Green Line in a container is compounded at €4 a litre. (8 September 2026)
• Cyprus Mail, reporting the fuel excise relief and the proposed extension: the cut of 8.33 cents a litre including VAT, petrol excise from €0.429 to €0.359 and diesel from €0.40 to €0.33, announced 1 September 2026, still under discussion on 6 September. Named, not linked: a news outlet is not a primary source. (8 September 2026)
• Famagusta Gazette, giving 17 September 2026 as the date the current relief runs to, and philenews, giving November for the proposed extension. The two disagree; the page names both and settles neither. Named, not linked. (8 September 2026)
• Rents in Cyprus LTD price card and rental terms, fact lock §4: fuel is full to full, else a refuelling fee plus the cost of the fuel. The fee amount is not published and is not stated on this page. (6 September 2026)

Tell us the towns you plan to drive between and we will tell you what the fuel is likely to cost at today's prices, alongside the rate for the car and the excess that sits beside it. No prepayment, and nothing is held until we confirm.

Rents in Cyprus LTD, registered in Cyprus as HE 448739, Griva Digeni 55, Chlorakas 8220, Paphos. Our fleet, our rates and our terms, with no third party in between. There is no prepayment: you pay on pick-up. We speak English and Russian.

Fuel prices are published by the Consumer Protection Service and change daily; the figures here carry the date they were read. Nothing on this page is legal or financial advice, and nothing here is a quote. Confirm any charge that applies to your own hire with us when you book. Last verified: 3 August 2026.