First Response Finance reveals UK cities with cheapest fuel prices [February 2025]

With the price of petrol rising in the past few weeks, the ongoing cost-of-living crisis is having an impact on the finances of motorists all across the country.

However, there are specific cities around the UK where filling up your tank is gentler on your pockets. Are you lucky enough to live in an area offering more affordable fuel bills?

Here at First Response Finance, we've crunched the numbers to reveal the nation's locations with the cheapest petrol prices (as of February 2025).

Top 10 UK cities with the cheapest fuel costs:

1. Belfast – 131.96p per litre
2. Armagh – 132.38p per litre
3. Newry – 133.23p per litre
4. Londonderry – 133.33p per litre
5. Lisburn – 133.95p per litre
6. Bangor – 134.22p per litre
7. Dundee – 134.62p per litre
8. Durham – 134.62p per litre
9. Wakefield – 134.83p per litre
10. Leeds – 135.37p per litre

Cheapest petrol costs in the UK

When it comes to the cheapest place in the UK to juice up your motor, Belfast takes the top spot by the finest of margins.

As the country deals with the continued challenges of soaring bills and expenses, we've sifted through branded petrol stations, supermarkets, and service stations on PetrolPrices.com to map out the UK cities with the most budget-friendly fuel costs.

Based on our findings, the capital city of Northern Ireland is the cheapest location for a refill, with petrol costs in Belfast averaging a reasonable 131.96p per litre. That's by far the best deal you can hope to get throughout the UK.

In fact, there is only a slight difference of 0.42p per litre with petrol bills elsewhere in Northern Ireland in Armagh, which instead sits in second place with an average fuel price of 132.38p.

Northern Ireland actually continues to perform well across the top 6 locations, with an average petrol cost of 133.23p in Newry, followed closely by Londonderry (133.33p per litre) in fourth place.Finally in 5th and 6th place are Lisburn and Bangor (not to be confused with the Bangor in Wales), where you'll be paying an average of 133.95p and 134.22p at the pump respectively.

Interestingly, Bangor's Welsh equivalent would equal a difference of over 2p per litre, with average prices coming in at 136.41p. 

From Northern Ireland, we head over to Scotland for 7th place, with prices in Dundee clocking in at an average of 134.62p per litre. The rest of the list is rounded off by the north of England - in 8th place we find Durham, where prices are actually equal to those in Dundee at 134.62p. To the south in Yorkshire, Wakefield occupies 9th place with an average cost per litre of 134.83p, with Leeds rounding off the top 10 with a very respectable 135.37p per litre. 

The field is much tighter than when we ran this analysis in 2024 - could that a sign of brighter days ahead or is it too soon to tell...?

So, what's the situation like in your city? If you're planning an affordable road trip across the country, keep this list in mind to save precious pounds on the road.

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