Halifax · Nova Scotia

Halifax diesel prices

270.9¢/L+6.6 vs national

NRCan survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026Nova Scotia average 271.8¢/L

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.

Halifax · Canadian side270.9¢/L

New England · the US district next door$6.470/gal

The American figure is the EIA weekly retail survey — published as $6.470/gal this week — shown the way an American carrier reads it, with the Canadian-dollar equivalent beside it once the page loads. 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 into New England buys its fuel on the other side of a border.

Halifax runs 6.6¢ above the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip

Citing this figure

Halifax diesel: 270.9¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/nova-scotia/halifax/

How it is calculated

What drives Halifax prices

Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and runs a major container and auto port. It has had no local refinery since the Dartmouth plant closed, so its fuel is imported. Imported fuel keeps prices high. That is the position, and it holds steady. The port moves containers and cars, but the city has no plant making diesel of its own. The price at the pump carries the cost of bringing fuel in from elsewhere, and that cost does not go away.

Nova Scotia survey cities

¢/L · distance from the provincial mean

Kentville269.7 -2.1 Halifax270.9 -0.9 Truro271.7 -0.1 Yarmouth272.2 +0.4 New Glasgow273.2 +1.4 Sydney273.3 +1.5

Every price is an NRCan survey observation from the print dated Tue, 27 Oct 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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