Two markets, one desk, checked 22 October 2026
Heating oil cost, dated and sourced
Pick your market. Every number on this site carries the name of the series it came from, the day its publisher released it and the day we last checked it. Where a series has gone dark we show the lag instead of filling the gap.
The short answer
Heating oil cost 102.31p a litre in the UK on the reading published 29 September 2026 and checked 22 October 2026. In the United States the latest residential print was $6.19 a gallon for the week of 19 October 2026. A 1,200 litre order is GBP 1,227.72. An empty 275 gallon tank takes about 261 gallons, which is $1,617.14.
DESNZ Quarterly Energy Prices / QEP 4.1.1 standard grade burning oil / published 29 September 2026 / checked 22 October 2026 / lag 23 daysone to four weeks oldtier A
Typical price for a delivery of up to 1,000 litres, VAT at 5% included. Observed on the Monday nearest the 15th.
EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program / W_EPD2F_PRS_NUS_DPG / published 21 October 2026 / checked 22 October 2026 / lag 1 dayunder a week oldtier A
Latest weekly print of the 2026 to 2027 season. The survey collects weekly from October to March and pauses for the summer.
Two winters of price, drawn as a temperature strip
Each bar is one published reading, and its colour is where that reading sits in the range. Pale amber is cheap, burnt is dear. Colour on this site never means anything else.
United Kingdom / 104 monthly prints
Feb 2018 to Sep 2026 / 104 readings
low 20.26p / high 104.05p / marker: latest month
United States / 104 weekly prints
19 Dec 2022 to 19 Oct 2026 / 104 readings
low 3.444$ / high 6.19$ / marker: latest week
Kerosene scale / 104 month UK window / colour is price level, never anything else
Bands are quintiles of the 104 month uk window in pence per litre. There is no red and green pair anywhere on this site. Direction is carried by the delta glyph in the text, not by colour.
Kerosene scale / 104 week US window / colour is price level, never anything else
Bands are quintiles of the 104 week us window in dollars per gallon. There is no red and green pair anywhere on this site. Direction is carried by the delta glyph in the text, not by colour.
Why a heating oil cost here is different from one anywhere else
It carries two dates
Not one. The day the publisher released it and the day we checked it. The UK reading is 23 days old. The US reading is 1 day old. When the federal survey pauses for the summer its print ages for six months, and the page says so rather than hiding it.
It names the series
Every figure links to the table it came from, with the series identifier. If you disagree with a number, you can go and read the source rather than argue with us.
It admits the gaps
The American survey stops for six months a year. The British series has no regional breakdown. The one genuine regional survey, in Northern Ireland, is theirs and we link to it rather than copying it. All three are on the site, in writing.
It sells nothing
No lead form, no quote widget, no email box, no supplier commission. Most of the commercial results for these searches are sellers. A price with a seller behind it has a direction in it.
Decide
The questions people actually arrive with.
- The fill deskSix calculator modes, both units, no submit button.
- Order now or waitThe timing lever, measured against ten years of prints.
- Which planCap, pre-buy, budget, will-call and automatic.
- Heat pump or boilerCost per useful kilowatt hour, both ways.
Understand
The evidence pages behind the readings.
- Three prices, one gallonWholesale against retail, reconciled.
- The off-season gapWhy every federal page shows March data all summer.
- The 2026 shock53.46p to 104.05p in one observation.
- The blend correctionSame dollars, measurably less heat.
Check us
The trust layer, in public.
- How we priceThree source tiers and four refusals.
- The revision logEvery figure that moved, and three we withdrew.
- The bylineWho writes this and how it is funded.
- GlossaryKerosene, No. 2, ullage, cap price, lag.
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