Poole

At the bottom of the local market, unleaded starts around 163p per litre right now. Unleaded currently varies by roughly 4p per litre between the cheapest and dearest forecourts, which is enough to notice on a full tank.

The supermarket sites, including Tesco, tend to set the floor for prices here. Supermarkets account for 3 of the 20 stations here, with branded and independent sites making up the remainder.

The low end of the market has recently been held by BP around Holton Heath Garage. Several of the busier sites sit along Wallisdown Road and Longfleet Road, so you can check them against each other without leaving your usual route.

Unleaded around Poole currently averages noticeably more than South West England as a whole, so a fill-up just outside town can pay off. Diesel averages around 186p per litre across the stations listed for Poole.

The comparison covers stations up to roughly 8 km out, which keeps out-of-town supermarkets and bypass sites in the same view as the town centre. Prices in Poole can move mid-week as well as at weekends, so the ordering above is worth a glance even if you always use the same forecourt.

The table below carries the exact live figures per station, and alerts can flag a drop at the forecourts you actually use.