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Heating oil price history

Heating oil prices in September 2026

The Fueltool average for heating oil was 105.33p a litre excluding VAT in September 2026. That is about £1,106 for 1,000 litres including 5% VAT.

Compare prices at your postcode Prices since 2011
105.33paverage a litre, ex VAT
92.00plowest day, 1 September 2026
115.35phighest day, 16 September 2026
£1,106for 1,000 litres at the average, VAT included

How it compares

September 2026 against the month before and a year earlier

On the month before

+23.8%

105.33p against 85.05p in August 2026 (29 days recorded): up 20.28p a litre.

On the same month a year earlier

+101.4%

105.33p against 52.30p in September 2025: up 53.03p a litre.

Day by day

Daily heating oil prices in September 2026

Daily average, pence a litre excluding VAT, by day of September. 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
108.00p -0.50p 295
108.50p -0.50p 150
109.00p -1.00p 243
110.00p 0.00p 125
110.00p 0.00p 132
110.00p 0.00p 150
110.00p 0.00p 123
110.00p +0.50p 149
109.50p -1.50p 202
111.00p 0.00p 143
111.00p 0.00p 109
111.00p 0.00p 109
111.00p -0.50p 233
111.50p -3.85p 269
115.35p +4.85p 189
110.50p +3.00p 176
107.50p +0.57p 207
106.93p -0.65p 74
107.58p -0.42p 84
108.00p +3.50p 225
104.50p +8.00p 196
96.50p +0.44p 134
96.06p -0.97p 115
97.03p +0.77p 133
96.26p +0.70p 80
95.56p -0.70p 80
96.26p +0.41p 136
95.85p +2.35p 108
93.50p +1.50p 201
92.00p +5.50p 269

Figures for September 2026 run from 1 September 2026 to 30 September 2026. The month's average is the mean of these daily figures.

On 1 September 2026, 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026 the daily snapshot ran more than once, so the listings counts for those days are higher than on the days around them. The prices are shown as recorded and are not adjusted.

More months

Other months and years

Every month of 2026

September 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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