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Heating oil price history

Heating oil prices in November 2020

The Fueltool average for heating oil was 30.28p a litre excluding VAT in November 2020. That is about £318 for 1,000 litres including 5% VAT.

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30.28paverage a litre, ex VAT
29.50plowest day, 6 November 2020
32.05phighest day, 28 November 2020
£318for 1,000 litres at the average, VAT included

How it compares

November 2020 against the month before and a year earlier

On the month before

-4.0%

30.28p against 31.53p in October 2020: down 1.25p a litre.

On the same month a year earlier

-38.4%

30.28p against 49.19p in November 2019: down 18.91p a litre.

Day by day

Daily heating oil prices in November 2020

Daily average, pence a litre excluding VAT, by day of November. The ring marks the lowest day and the filled dot the highest.
Day Average p a litre, ex VAT On the day before Listings counted
32.05p 0.00p 122
32.05p 0.00p 122
32.05p +0.10p 122
31.95p +0.50p 125
31.45p +0.15p 125
31.30p +0.85p 109
30.45p +0.57p 111
29.88p +0.03p 110
29.85p -0.03p 107
29.88p +0.03p 106
29.85p +0.05p 105
29.80p -0.03p 103
29.83p +0.04p 104
29.79p -0.20p 104
29.99p 0.00p 107
29.99p -0.06p 113
30.05p 0.00p 115
30.05p -0.20p 115
30.25p +0.25p 126
30.00p -0.12p 115
30.12p +0.62p 105
29.50p 0.00p 91
29.50p -0.02p 91
29.52p +0.02p 92
29.50p -0.35p 90
29.85p -0.13p 90
29.98p 0.00p 98
29.98p 0.00p 98
29.98p -0.05p 98
30.03p 0.00p 98

Figures for November 2020 run from 1 November 2020 to 30 November 2020. The month's average is the mean of these daily figures.

More months

Other months and years

Every month of 2020

November in other years

Every month since October 2011

The method

How these figures are made

  • What is averaged. Standard kerosene (heating oil) price listings on Fueltool for a 1,000 to 1,499 litre delivery, in pence a litre excluding VAT. Each day's figure is the middle (median) listing: half that day's listings were cheaper and half dearer, so one supplier's high price cannot pull it up. A supplier can list several areas and delivery options, so this is a figure from Fueltool's listings, not a survey of every UK supplier.
  • Which listings count on a day. A listing counts on a day if its price was last changed within the 30 days up to that day, so a supplier that has stopped trading drops out. The demo account is left out. Each day is judged by who was trading that day, not by who is trading now. The number of listings behind a day has ranged from about 24 a day (April 2012) to about 377 a day (October 2018). The monthly pages show the count for each day, so a month with fewer listings rests on fewer prices.
  • Months. A month's average is the mean of its daily figures. The lowest and highest day are the lowest and highest daily figure in that month. A change on the month before, or on the same month a year earlier, is shown only where both months have at least 14 days of records.
  • Typing errors. Prices are typed in by suppliers and sometimes wrongly (4050 for 40.50, for example). A price under 15p or over £2.50 a litre, or under half or over double that day's middle price, is left out: 1,236 prices outside 15p to £2.50, and a further 2,376 of the 701,945 listings that otherwise counted. Six suppliers entered prices 50p too high from 17 to 21 May 2014; those prices are left out. Two suppliers did the same from 21 to 29 January 2019, and those prices are left out too.
  • Gaps in the record. Daily records start on 27 October 2011. There are no records for 4 to 23 December 2018 (20 days), 24 to 27 December 2019 (4 days) or 19 May 2022 to 26 April 2023 (343 days). Those days are left blank. Nothing is filled in or estimated, and a month with fewer days than it should have says how many it has.
  • VAT. Every pence figure excludes VAT. Pound amounts for 1,000 litres add VAT at 5%, the rate on domestic heating oil.
  • Using the figures. Free to quote with a credit and a link to Fueltool.co.uk. Today's live average is shown on the heating oil prices today page and can differ from the latest daily record. The last two years of the daily record are also available as data from the open price feed.

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