Where every price comes from.

Every price in FuelNow comes from an official government fuel price scheme – no crowd-sourcing, no estimates. Each state runs its scheme differently and some refresh far more often than others, so here is exactly what you're looking at, state by state. This page is also the attribution those schemes' licences require.

Facts checked 12 July 2026.

NSW & ACT — NSW FuelCheck

Operated by the NSW Government (Department of Customer Service). Stations report prices in real time; FuelNow shows each price's verification time. The ACT participates in the NSW scheme. Official site: fuelcheck.nsw.gov.au

Victoria — Servo Saver

Operated by Service Victoria under the state's mandatory fuel price reporting rules (in force since 6 August 2025; stations must report changes within 30 minutes). The government's public data feed is deliberately released on a 24-hour delay – the real-time feed is reserved for the government's own channel – so FuelNow labels every Victorian price "yesterday". Since 10 March 2026 Victoria also caps each day's prices in advance: stations lodge a next-day maximum, and prices can drop during the day but can't go up. Data published under CC BY 4.0. Official site: service.vic.gov.au

Queensland — FuelPricesQLD

The Queensland Government's fuel price reporting scheme. Real-time reporting; no government consumer app exists – the state publishes the data for apps like FuelNow to carry. Official site: fuelpricesqld.com.au

South Australia — Fuel Pricing Information Scheme

Administered by SA Consumer and Business Services. Real-time reporting; like Queensland, SA publishes data rather than shipping its own app. Administering agency: cbs.sa.gov.au

Western Australia — FuelWatch

The oldest scheme in the country. Prices are locked for 24 hours from 6am, and tomorrow's prices are published at 2:30pm each day – which is why FuelNow can show you tomorrow's price today. Official site: fuelwatch.wa.gov.au

Tasmania — FuelCheck TAS

Tasmania's implementation of the FuelCheck platform. Real-time reporting. Official site: fuelcheck.tas.gov.au

Northern Territory — MyFuel NT

Mandatory price reporting since 1 November 2017. Since 20 April 2026 the Territory locks prices daily, WA-style: tomorrow's prices are published at 2:30pm, take effect at 6am, hold for 24 hours, and can drop during the day but can’t go up – so, as in WA, FuelNow shows you tomorrow's price today. FuelNow carries every reporting NT station – from Darwin to the remote outlets where Opal low aromatic fuel replaces regular unleaded, shown as the station's unleaded price. Official site: myfuelnt.nt.gov.au

Freshness is always shown

Where data is real time, each price shows when it was verified. Where it's locked, it shows until when. Where it's delayed, it's labelled as delayed. An old price is never presented as a current one.

How FuelNow calculates city figures

The daily figures on FuelNow's city pages – the median, the cheapest station and the history charts – are calculated like this:

• "Sydney" means Greater Sydney, as the ABS defines it. City figures count every station inside the ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Area (ASGS Edition 3) – the same boundary government statistics use. Greater Sydney takes in the Central Coast and the Blue Mountains but not Wollongong, and Canberra's figures cover the whole ACT, which puts Queanbeyan outside them. ABS boundaries are used under CC BY 4.0.
• "Regional NSW" means everything outside Greater Sydney. The state pages use the ABS Rest of State regions – each state minus its Greater capital, so the two add up to the whole state. That puts Newcastle and Wollongong in regional NSW, Geelong in regional Victoria, and the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast in regional Queensland. (The ACT has no Rest-of-State region.) Regional figures are day's-end figures, calculated exactly like the city ones – there is no live station board for half a state.
• Every reporting station counts – a census, not a sample. FuelNow reads the mandatory schemes directly, so each figure covers every station reporting that day, and says how many that was. Most published city averages come from commercial collection samples – Victoria's own regulatory analysis put the dominant network's coverage there at roughly 60–70% of stations.
• The headline number is the median station, not the mean. Half the stations are cheaper, half more expensive. A few extreme outliers can drag a mean around but barely move a median, and there is no public volume data to weight stations by – so every station counts once.
• One point per day, measured at day's end. Daily figures are the prices prevailing late in the evening, east-coast time – after the day's changes, before the next morning's. In WA and the NT, where prices lock at 6am, the day's-end price simply is the day's price.
• Obvious data errors are excluded. Prices under 100.0 c/L or at 500.0 c/L and above (scheme placeholder and error values) are filtered out – the same guard the live map uses.
• Victoria's figures inherit the feed's one-day delay. The government releases its public feed a day behind, so Melbourne's daily figures describe the most recent day it has published – and they're labelled that way.
• The history starts on 3 March 2026. Figures come from FuelNow's own records of the schemes above. Coverage builds over the first fortnight, and each day's station count is stored and shown, so thin early days are visible. Darwin's and regional NT's figures start 7 July 2026, when NT collection began.
• The August 2026 rise tracker compares each station with itself. FuelNow snapshots every station's day's-end price over 29 July – 1 August; a station's baseline is the median of those snapshots. From 3 August a station counts once a price has been verified for it, and counts as fully risen when that price sits at least 17.6 c/L above its own baseline. Shares are always shown with the counts behind them. Price cycles keep moving underneath, so the ACCC's weekly monitoring reports are the independent cross-check.

Worth knowing: the live boards on the city pages show the metro map view – the area you'd see opening the app there – while the daily figures measure the full ABS boundary. The two medians usually sit within a couple of cents of each other.

Download the data

Every daily series behind the charts is downloadable as CSV – one file per region, Unleaded 91 and diesel together, from 3 March 2026 to the newest day. Columns: day, fuel, median, cheapest, most expensive and station count, all in cents per litre, calculated exactly as described above. Licensed CC BY 4.0 – use it freely, attribute "FuelNow (fuelnow.com.au)".

Capitals: Sydney · Melbourne · Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide · Hobart · Canberra · Darwin

Regions: Regional NSW · Regional Victoria · Regional Queensland · Regional SA · Regional WA · Regional Tasmania · Regional NT

Events: the August 2026 excise pass-through tracker – per-capital and national counts of stations priced the full 17.6 c/L above their own late-July baseline. Baselines accrue from 29 July; live counts from 3 August. The method is on the August page.

FuelNow is independent – not affiliated with or endorsed by any government scheme, fuel retailer or navigation app. Scheme names belong to their operators and appear here as factual attribution of data sources.