Northern MileSault Ste Marie diesel prices
231.8¢/L-1.2 vs national
Sault Ste Marie runs 1.2¢ below the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip
Citing this figure
Sault Ste Marie diesel: 231.8¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 25 Aug 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/ontario/sault-ste-marie/
What drives Sault Ste Marie prices
Sault Ste. Marie sits on Highway 17, the Trans-Canada, and runs on steel, with Algoma anchoring the industrial base. The city also holds the International Bridge to Sault, Michigan, which carries freight across the border. Steel keeps trucks hauling raw material and finished product, and the Trans-Canada position ties the city to the movement of goods across the region. That combination of steel, a Trans-Canada corridor, and a border bridge is what shapes the local fuel market, anchoring it to both the steel trade and the freight crossing at the border.
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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