How often are fuel prices updated?
A wrong price is worth less than no price. That’s why on Rifuel every value carries its own date: no “real-time” promised and never kept. Freshness depends on each country’s official source — here, transparently, is the latest available data.
Latest update by country
| Country | Latest data | Source frequency | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2026-10-25 | Daily | Osservaprezzi — MIMIT |
| France | 2026-10-25 | Daily | Min. Économie |
| Spain | 2026-10-25 | Daily | Geoportal Gasolineras — MITECO |
| Austria | 2026-10-25 | Weekly | E-Control |
| Portugal | 2026-10-25 | Weekly | DGEG |
| Slovenia | 2026-10-25 | Weekly | Portal Energetika |
| Croatia | 2026-10-25 | Daily | Ministarstvo gospodarstva |
| Denmark | 2026-10-25 | Daily | API catene — BEK 1351/2025 |
| Luxembourg | 2026-10-25 | Weekly | STATEC + OSM |
| United Kingdom | 2026-10-25 | Daily | Fuel Finder — CMA |
Switzerland: there’s no state observatory; prices are market-based (TCS, crowdsourced) and updated at a variable cadence — which is why we treat them separately.
How we keep prices up to date
We don’t invent or estimate prices: they come from each country’s official sources. Where a public observatory publishes daily (Italy, France, Spain) the data is daily; where publication is weekly (Austria, Portugal, Slovenia) so is ours. We don’t promise “updated every 15 minutes everywhere”, because it wouldn’t be true: we prefer to tell you exactly when the data is from.
In the app every station shows the date of its last reading: so you always know whether you’re looking at today’s price or one from a few days ago, and can decide accordingly. When a source doesn’t update, we don’t artificially “refresh” the date: the data stays real, with its real date.
It’s a transparency choice that pays off: better an honest, dated price than a façade of “real-time”. If you find a difference at the pump, it’s often because the station changed its price after the last official reading — and you can report it from the app.
Frequently asked questions
How often are fuel prices updated?
It depends on the country: where there’s a daily public observatory (Italy, France, Spain) the data is daily — in Italy the latest is from 2026-10-25. Elsewhere (Austria, Portugal, Slovenia) the official cadence is weekly. A specific station’s price can change more often.
Are Rifuel prices real-time?
They’re as fresh as the official source that publishes them, and every value shows its date. We don’t promise a uniform “real-time” everywhere: we transparently tell you when the price was recorded.
Where do the prices come from?
From official sources: Osservaprezzi MIMIT (Italy), Ministère de l’Économie (France), Geoportal MITECO (Spain), and the national bodies of Austria, Portugal and Slovenia. For Switzerland, market data (TCS).