The scheme
Fuel Finder: the law that opened up pump prices
Since 2 February 2026, every UK petrol station must report its prices to a central open data scheme within 30 minutes of any change, with full enforcement from 1 May 2026. The scheme is called Fuel Finder, run by an appointed aggregator under the Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025, and its data is made openly available to websites and apps. scheme guide
What stations must publish
Selling prices for every grade they sell, E5, E10, diesel, super diesel, B10 and HVO, plus the station's location, opening hours and facilities. The voluntary scheme that preceded it, where only large retailers shared data, closed on 1 May 2026. GOV.UK
Why it exists
The competition regulator found that weakened competition between forecourts had been costing drivers meaningfully on every litre, and that drivers could not shop around because prices were invisible until you drove past the totem. Mandatory open pricing is the fix: when every price is public within half an hour, the cheap forecourt gets found. CMA road fuel monitoring
What this site does with it
Petrol Tracker takes the scheme's published open data file, which covers every registered forecourt in the UK, and rebuilds the postcode search from it: every forecourt within five miles of your district, ranked by price per grade, each price stamped with the time the forecourt itself set it. The file is published twice a day and the search says on every result which publication it came from. Nothing on this site is scraped or estimated.