Northern MileRed Deer diesel prices
209.9¢/L-23.1 vs national
Red Deer runs 23.1¢ below the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip
Citing this figure
Red Deer diesel: 209.9¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 25 Aug 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/alberta/red-deer/
What drives Red Deer prices
Red Deer sits at the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton run on Hwy 2 and works as an oil-patch service centre for central Alberta. Its diesel market runs on that position. Traffic moving between Calgary and Edmonton passes through the city, and the surrounding oil patch leans on Red Deer for service and supply. Pump prices in the city track the cost of fuel moving along the Hwy 2 corridor and the pace of oil-patch service work around central Alberta. Red Deer's pricing tracks the traffic and the oil-patch service work that pass through its midpoint.
Alberta survey cities
¢/L · distance from the provincial mean
Lloydminster209.3 -1.2
Grande Prairie209.7 -0.8
Red Deer209.9 -0.6
Lethbridge209.9 -0.6
Edmonton210.7 +0.2
Calgary213.6 +3.1
Every price is an NRCan survey observation from the print dated Tue, 25 Aug 2026. The provincial figure is the unweighted mean of its survey cities, the same figure that enters the Northern Mile Diesel Index.
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