Poole

At the bottom of the local market, unleaded starts around 152p per litre right now. The very top of the local range is set by a small number of expensive outliers, and most stations sit much closer together than the headline gap suggests.

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 Asda. 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.

Local unleaded prices average slightly above the wider South West England figure. Diesel averages around 168p per litre across the stations we track in 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.