Northern MileChicoutimi diesel prices
255.8¢/L+22.8 vs national
Chicoutimi runs 22.8¢ above the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip
Citing this figure
Chicoutimi diesel: 255.8¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 25 Aug 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/quebec/chicoutimi/
What drives Chicoutimi prices
Chicoutimi is the regional hub for Saguenay Lac Saint Jean. Aluminum anchors the local economy through Rio Tinto. Highway 175 is the main corridor that ties the city to Quebec City and the south. That single highway carries the freight that moves in and out of the whole Saguenay region. Carriers serving the area route through this hub because the loads and the supply points gather here. In the Quebec freight map, Chicoutimi stands as the northern anchor of its region, one major highway and one dominant industry holding the market together.
Quebec survey cities
¢/L · distance from the provincial mean
Trois-Rivières244.7 -11.3
Rimouski253.8 -2.2
Quebec255.3 -0.7
Chicoutimi255.8 -0.2
Drummondville256.2 +0.2
Gatineau256.3 +0.3
Sherbrooke256.8 +0.8
Gaspé258.2 +2.2
Montreal259.3 +3.3
Val d'Or263.4 +7.4
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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