Fuel prices continue to rise: diesel over 2.2 on the motorway

Another rise in fuel prices in Italia, in the midst of the weekend’s return traffic. The Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy has announced that today the average price of self-service fuel across the national road network stands at €2.010 per litre for petrol and €2.130 per litre for diesel. Yesterday, petrol stood at 2.008 and diesel at 2.128.

On the motorway network, however, today’s average self-service price is €2.087 per litre for petrol and €2.203 per litre for diesel: yesterday, on the motorways, petrol was €2.085 and diesel €2.200.

“The mass exodus of Italians on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August is set to cost over 406.7 million euros in additional fuel expenditure compared with the same period in 2025”. This was stated in a press release by Codacons, which calculated the impact of the price rises at the pump on the pockets of motorists returning from their holiday destinations.

At current motorway prices, a 50-litre full tank costs over 104 euros for petrol and 110 euros for diesel. Based on the same number of cars on the road as during the same period last year, the total additional expenditure on petrol and diesel over the weekend amounts to €406,704,000.

“A massive price hike” coming right in the middle of the post-holiday exodus: estimates suggest over 24 million journeys, with particularly heavy traffic on the main return routes today. “In just two days, Italian motorists are spending over 406 million euros more at petrol stations than last year, with the same number of cars on the road,” reports Codacons. “This is a veritable tax on the post-holiday traffic rush that is hitting millions of families just as the summer holidays are drawing to a close. The Government must take immediate action to ease the cost of fuel and prevent the return from holidays from turning into yet another blow to motorists’ pockets.”