Northern MileBarrie diesel prices
220.4¢/L-12.6 vs national
Barrie runs 12.6¢ below the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip
Citing this figure
Barrie diesel: 220.4¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 25 Aug 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/ontario/barrie/
What drives Barrie prices
Barrie sits on the Highway 400 corridor north of Toronto, and warehousing and distribution are where its growth is. The city moves goods up and down the 400 series network, feeding the Toronto market from the north. That distribution role shapes the local diesel market. A corridor town built around storage and freight movement runs on that flow, not on any single industry. The warehousing boom along the 400 is the story here, and it is what the fuel market follows.
Ontario survey cities
¢/L · distance from the provincial mean
Kitchener218.5 -4.2
Windsor218.6 -4.1
Kingston219.2 -3.5
Brantford219.5 -3.2
London220.3 -2.4
Barrie220.4 -2.3
Thunder Bay220.6 -2.1
St. Catharines220.8 -1.9
Oshawa221.0 -1.7
Guelph221.2 -1.5
Toronto222.4 -0.3
Hamilton223.0 +0.3
Peterborough223.9 +1.2
Sarnia223.9 +1.2
North Bay225.0 +2.3
Ottawa226.0 +3.3
Sudbury226.7 +4.0
Timmins227.7 +5.0
Sault Ste Marie231.8 +9.1
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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