Where the prices come from
Every price here is reported by the retailer to the South Australian fuel price scheme. The scheme publishes what fuel costs right now and nothing else, so FuelSA records every change as it happens and keeps the history.
Fuel retailers in South Australia are required to report their prices to the South Australian Fuel Pricing Information Scheme. FuelSA reads that official feed every ten minutes and stores a row each time a price actually changes, stamped with the moment it took effect at the bowser.
Nothing is estimated, smoothed or reconstructed, and there is no backfill - so the record starts the day collection did, and the site says so wherever that matters.
Collection health
Every run is logged, so a gap in the record is visible rather than silent.
Price changes recorded
68,198
Since 8 Aug, 9:03 pm
Changes in the last 24 hours
346
Across 2,583 station and fuel combinations
Stations reporting
727
Every station in the scheme's SA feed
Completed days rolled up
59
Daily averages are time-weighted, not a mean of changes
144 collection runs in the last 24 hours, none of which failed. Last run .
How to read any of this
Prices are as reported
Retailers must report a change within 30 minutes by law. A price here carries the time it took effect at the bowser, not the time we saw it - so you can always tell how fresh it is.
Daily averages are time-weighted
A price that stood for twenty hours counts twenty times as much as one that stood for one. A plain mean of price changes would make an hour-long spike look like a whole day.
The middle price, not the average
Tables rank on the middle of the market rather than the average, so one misreported price cannot move a whole suburb. Prices under 50¢ are treated as typing errors and left out.
Days are Adelaide days
Every daily figure runs midnight to midnight in local time, daylight saving included - so the 23- and 25-hour changeover days are right rather than approximately right.
History only goes back so far
There is no backfill and no archive to import. Anything needing weeks of history says how much it has so far rather than drawing a chart it cannot support.
Check the board before you fill up
A reported price may not match the sign when you arrive. This is a record of what was reported, not a guarantee of what you will pay.
One record, two apps
The website and the iOS app read the same collected history, so a price you see here is the price you see there. Nothing is estimated or reconstructed to fill a gap between them.
Nothing about you is collected
No account, no advertising, no analytics and no third-party trackers. If you use the map’s locate button, the coordinate is used in your browser to move the map and is never sent to us. Read the privacy policy.
Also on iOS
The same data, with saved stations and a map built for one hand. Free, and it reads the same record this site does.
FuelSA is published by Perspective Global Pty Ltd and developed by Hayden Kong. It is an independent project: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Government of South Australia or any fuel retailer. Brand names and logos identify the station brand reported by the scheme and remain the property of their respective owners.