Fuel at the border crossings

Which side to fill up on

A gap under 2 euro cents per litre sits inside the averages’ own movement, so we name no winner there. The saving is calculated on a 60-litre tank at today’s ECB reference rate.

converted at the ECB rate

Borders we hold no prices for

For these countries we have no fuel price source at all — neither a national average nor individual station prices. We would rather say so than print a figure we cannot document. On those crossing pages we show station locations only: Moldova.

Where the data comes from

Station locations come from OpenStreetMap and cover every crossing we write about — on average about a hundred stations within 50 km of each. For each one we give the straight-line distance from the crossing plus links to Google Maps and Apple Maps.

Prices from individual pumps exist for only some borders. On the Ukrainian side we use WOG network prices, refreshed once a day. For the neighbouring countries we hold none. Where we have none, we do not build a ranking of the "cheapest" stations, because we do not know what they charge: we show the locations and say so plainly.

The best-value ranking adds to a 50-litre fill the fuel burned driving to the station and back, at roughly 8 litres per 100 km. That stops a station a few cents cheaper but 30 km away from beating the one right at the crossing.

National averages come from the European Commission’s Weekly Oil Bulletin. Ukrainian network prices come from Minfin. Amounts in another currency are converted at the European Central Bank reference rate.

Sources: OpenStreetMap (ODbL) · European Commission — Weekly Oil Bulletin · Мінфін · WOG · MTS-K

Stations at each border

• Ukraine–Poland border
• Ukraine–Slovakia border
• Ukraine–Hungary border
• Ukraine–Romania border
• Ukraine–Moldova border