Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union.[1]
Fuel prices in September 2026
According to a Eurostat report of 21 October 2026, prices of fuels and lubricants for personal transport rose in September by 31.4 percent year on year in the European Union. In Czechia they rose by 37.5 percent, the fourth-highest increase in the Union.[1] Bulgaria recorded the largest year-on-year price rise (42.2 percent); Estonia and Lithuania also reported more than 40 percent. Prices rose most moderately in Hungary (6.9 percent), followed by Ireland (17.7 percent) and Sweden (19.9 percent).[1][2] According to the Czech News Agency, fuel prices in 2026 are being pushed up by the conflict in the Middle East, which was set off at the end of February by American-Israeli attacks on Iran, and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries are also complicating the situation on the market. [1]
Month on month, petrol prices in the European Union rose by 6.7 percent in September and diesel prices by 5.9 percent. In Czechia petrol became 7.6 percent more expensive and diesel 9.4 percent; the rise in the price of diesel was the fourth highest in the Union and the rise in the price of petrol the ninth highest.[1][2] Year-on-year inflation in the European Union, according to Eurostat's final data of 16 October 2026, accelerated in September to 3.8 percent from 3.2 percent in August, while in Czechia it was 2.2 percent, the fourth lowest after Sweden, Denmark and Hungary. [4] In August 2026, according to Eurostat, the price of diesel in Czechia rose month on month by 14.3 percent, the most of all European Union countries, where the average was 8.3 percent, while the price of petrol in Czechia rose by 2.7 percent and in the Union by 3.3 percent. [3]
Timeline
- — Eurostat published data according to which prices of fuels and lubricants for personal transport in Czechia rose in September by 37.5 percent year on year, the fourth-largest increase in the European Union. ČTK / České noviny Novinky.cz
Sources
- ČTK / České noviny — 21 October 2026
- Novinky.cz — 21 October 2026
- Hospodářské noviny — 22 September 2026
- ČTK / České noviny — 16 October 2026