Northern MileBritish Columbia diesel prices
Across the line
Diesel crosses the border, but the number does not. The Canadian side is published per litre and the American side per gallon.
The American figure is the EIA weekly retail survey — published as $7.357/gal this week — shown the way an American carrier reads it, with the Canadian-dollar equivalent beside it. A gallon is not a litre, so these two lines measure the same fuel in different units and the cents will never match. What does compare is the market: a load crossing at West Coast buys its fuel somewhere else.
British Columbia diesel: 269.2¢/L provincial average across 7 survey cities, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 29 Sep 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/british-columbia/
What drives British Columbia prices
British Columbia pays more for diesel than anywhere west of Quebec, and the reason is structural rather than seasonal. In the Natural Resources Canada survey print dated 29 September 2026, the province averaged 269.2 cents per litre, 8.3 cents above the national index of 260.9. Seven survey cities carry that average, and they do not agree with each other.
Vancouver and Victoria sit inside the Lower Mainland supply chain, where fuel arrives by marine terminal and pipeline and competes hard at retail. Prince George and Fort St John sit at the end of a haul. The same litre that rolls out of a Lower Mainland terminal costs more by the time it reaches the northeast, because someone has to move it there and there are fewer buyers along the way to share that cost. That is the whole mechanism, and it is the same one operating in every province on this site: refining and import capacity sits in a few places, and everything else is freight.
What makes British Columbia unusual is how much of its diesel is imported at all. The province refines a fraction of what it burns, so the Lower Mainland price tracks Pacific import economics and the exchange rate more closely than it tracks Canadian crude. A carrier running Vancouver to Calgary crosses a boundary where the fuel stops being a port commodity and starts being an inland one.
One caution on the provincial figure. It is the unweighted mean of the seven survey cities, so no single operator experiences it. If you run a fuel card, your cardlock price will generally be below the posted retail the survey measures. Use your own card price to plan a specific fill and this number to see which way the province is moving.
British Columbia survey cities
¢/L · distance from the provincial mean
Every price is an NRCan survey observation from the print dated Tue, 29 Sep 2026. The provincial figure is the unweighted mean of these 7 cities, the same figure that enters the Northern Mile Diesel Index. Prices include all federal and provincial fuel, carbon, and sales taxes.
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