Petrol, unleaded · per litre · 2018 Verified
£1.29in June 2018 — about £1.91 in today's money.
- Price in 2018£1.29
- Same money today£1.91
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£1.49
- Change since 2018+15%
Priced in working time
- A week's pay in 2018 bought · average weekly earnings were £519.00402 litres
- A week's pay today buys · at £749.00 (2026) · price estimated504 litres
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the average earnings record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The Office for National Statistics recorded it in June 2018; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics (ONS), dataset MM23. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Series title
- RPI: Ave price - Ultra low sulphur/Unleaded petrol, per litre
- Series
- CZMK
- Observed
- June 2018
- Coverage
- February 1990 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 1110.5 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0