For reference, on Thursday, January 12, the average price of diesel was €1,597/litre, while petrol cost an average of €1,659/litre.

From Next week the price of both petrol and diesel is expected to rise by half a cent each.

The average selling price of petrol in Portugal was 6.1 cents per litre higher in the fourth quarter of 2022 than the average values in the EU27, while for diesel it was 6.0 cents lower, according to ERSE data.