Charlottetown · Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown diesel prices

257.8¢/L-6.5 vs national

NRCan survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026Prince Edward Island average 257.8¢/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.

Charlottetown · Canadian side257.8¢/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.

Charlottetown runs 6.5¢ below the national index — a real difference on a 500-litre fill. Work out a trip

Citing this figure

Charlottetown diesel: 257.8¢/L, NRCan weekly survey print Tue, 27 Oct 2026. Northern Mile Media, dashboard.northernmilemedia.com/diesel-prices/prince-edward-island/charlottetown/

How it is calculated

What drives Charlottetown prices

Charlottetown is an island market, and that is what shapes its price. All fuel reaching the city arrives by the Confederation Bridge or by ferry, which keeps Charlottetown among the highest-priced markets in Canada. There is no way around the water, so every load has to come across the bridge or on the ferry. That single fact explains where the city prices. As an island it is served the same way for every delivery, with fuel crossing to reach the pumps, and that dependence on the water crossing keeps prices at the top of the Canadian range.

Prince Edward Island survey cities

¢/L · distance from the provincial mean

Charlottetown257.8 +0.0

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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