Sydney · Nova Scotia

Sydney diesel prices

273.3¢/L+9.0 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.

Sydney · Canadian side273.3¢/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.

Sydney runs 9.0¢ above the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip

Citing this figure

Sydney diesel: 273.3¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/nova-scotia/sydney/

How it is calculated

What drives Sydney prices

Sydney is the regional centre of Cape Breton. Coal and steel are in the island's heritage, and Sydney is where that industrial history is rooted. It is the main market town for the island, the place Cape Breton looks to as its centre. The coal and steel industries are part of the past now, but they built the town and gave it its place on the map. Sydney serves as the hub for the island's communities, and that regional role is what defines it as a freight market today.

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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