Switzerland · What moved my fuel price?
Petrol and diesel prices in Switzerland
Switzerland is not an EU member state: its figures are never part of an EU total, share or ranking.
What a litre costs at the pump and how much of it is tax, month by month. The price is a national monthly average; a month the publisher skipped is left as a gap.
What moved the price across this window
The change in the pump price, split into the parts that make it up. Each bar is the movement of one component between the first and last month we hold in the window.
Between May 1993 and September 2026 (400 months apart). These are the months we actually hold, which may differ from the dates requested.
- Pump identity check
- not published
Pump change minus the four components above. Returned by the API so it can be checked rather than trusted.
Plain differences between the two endpoint months. Nothing here says what moved any of it.
Shares are arithmetic on two stored differences. They can exceed 100% or go negative when components move against each other, and they are not an attribution of cause.
Diesel (automotive gas oil): pump price, national monthly average
The pump price including tax, as published. No price before tax is published for this series; the split below calculates it from the tax rates in the law.
- Pump price, with tax(official)
- Not published
The pre-tax price is the part that moves with crude, refining and transport costs. Excise duty is a fixed amount per litre, so it makes up a larger share when fuel is cheap.
Brent is not drawn here: it is a daily price, and this series is a monthly average.
As published, September 2026: 2.27 CHF per litre. The euro figures are our own conversion at the month's mean ECB reference rate (0.9430 CHF per euro).
What the latest month's price is made of
The most recent month in this window, split into tax and the price before tax.
- Pre-tax priceCalculated
- 1.3831 EUR/L57.5% of the pump price
- Excise dutyOfficial
- 0.5102 EUR/L21.2% of the pump price
- Other specific taxesOfficial
- 0.3336 EUR/L13.9% of the pump price
- VATOfficial
- 0.1804 EUR/L7.5% of the pump price
Calculated by us from the published pump price and the tax rates in the law; no price before tax is published.
Excise per litre, from the tax table row in force for this month.
Other specific per-litre levies, from the tax table row in force for this month.
Extracted from the observed pump price at the published rate.
No input cost is set against a monthly price; the price before tax is not broken down further. “Not published” is not zero.
Not computed for Switzerland
- How long Brent takes to reach the pump: The official pump-price series is a monthly national average, not a weekly price; the weekly analyses cannot be run on it.
- How the pump price follows crude: rises vs falls: The official pump-price series is a monthly national average, not a weekly price; the weekly analyses cannot be run on it.
- Actual vs crude-only: The official pump-price series is a monthly national average, not a weekly price; the weekly analyses cannot be run on it.
US diesel crack spread (proxy)
A US product spot price minus Brent. Shown because European product benchmarks are not licensed for redistribution; it is a proxy for the Atlantic-basin product market and not a European price or margin.
US proxy — not a European price
Tax rates in force
The excise, carbon and VAT rates the publisher recorded for this fuel, with the dates they apply from.
| From | To | Excise (EUR/L) | Carbon (EUR/L) | Other (EUR/L) | VAT | As the law states it | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | open | not published | not published | not published | 8.1% | on another row | Official |
| 2021-01-01 | open | 0.4454 | not published | 0.2912 | not published | 481.10 CHF/1000 l at 15 °C; 314.60 CHF/1000 l at 15 °C | Official |
| 2018-01-01 | 2023-12-31 | not published | not published | not published | 7.7% | on another row | Official |
| 2011-01-01 | 2017-12-31 | not published | not published | not published | 8.0% | on another row | Official |
| 2010-01-01 | 2010-12-31 | not published | not published | not published | 7.6% | on another row | Official |
| 2002-01-01 | 2020-12-31 | not published | not published | not published | not published | 458.70 CHF/1000 l at 15 °C; 300.00 CHF/1000 l at 15 °C | Official |
| 2001-01-01 | 2009-12-31 | not published | not published | not published | 7.6% | on another row | Official |
What this page does not show
- No cause is attributed to any movement. The page shows what moved and in what order, not why.
- No input cost is set against a monthly price: the price before tax is shown whole, and nothing inside it is named.