A plain record of what fuel costs in Pakistan
PetrolRateToday.pk exists to answer one question without argument: what is the notified price of fuel in Pakistan right now, and from which date does it apply? Everything else on the site is built around that answer.
Our story
This site began as a note to ourselves. Working out what a litre had cost on some particular Tuesday meant scrolling back through months of forwarded messages and half-read news posts, so we started keeping the notifications in one place, with their dates attached. It was housekeeping, not a plan.
Fuel rates in Pakistan change by notification, not by market tick. When a revision lands it reaches the public unevenly — a television ticker here, a forwarded screenshot there, often without the one detail that decides whether the figure is usable: the date it takes effect. People end up budgeting a trip, quoting a delivery charge or arguing with a pump attendant on a number that expired days ago.
So we published the note. We wanted a page that could be opened at a filling station on a weak signal and settle the matter in a second, showing not only the rate but the window it is valid for. Everything added since — the city table, the composition breakdown, the calculators — arrived because a reader asked something the single number could not answer.
Who we are
We are a small independent team that publishes data, and that is the whole of the job. Nobody here sells fuel, brokers it, or holds a position that moves when a price does. We are not reporters chasing a story and not analysts selling a forecast — the work is closer to record-keeping: read the notification, check it against the source, publish it with its dates attached, and correct it quickly when we get something wrong.
Everyone involved fills a tank at the same pumps as the people reading this, which is mostly why the site is built the way it is. The pages are light because we have used them on bad mobile connections. The dates are stated plainly because we have been caught out by a stale figure ourselves.
What we do
One thing, in several forms: publish the officially notified price of every petroleum product sold in Pakistan, and give you enough context to use it.
- Today's national rates for petrol, high-speed diesel, Hi-Octane, kerosene, light diesel oil and LPG, each shown with the date it took effect.
- A city-by-city table, which matters for Hi-Octane — the one product quoted regionally rather than under a single countrywide ceiling.
- A year of price history you can read as a chart, so a change can be judged against where the rate has actually been.
- A breakdown of what a litre is made of: the ex-refinery cost, the levy, the margins and the taxes layered on top.
- Calculators for a tank fill and for a specific trip, using real-world fuel economy rather than brochure figures.
- Plain-language guides to each petroleum product, plus a blog covering the notifications and the pricing mechanism behind them.
- A WhatsApp channel and an RSS feed for anyone who would rather be told than have to check.
Where the numbers come from
Rates are republished from the official notifications issued by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, alongside the pump prices Pakistan State Oil lists for Hi-Octane. We do not model, smooth or round the published figures, and we do not average across sources. What the notification says is what the page shows.
- Petrol and high-speed diesel carry a single countrywide ceiling, so those figures are identical in every city we list.
- Hi-Octane is the one product quoted city by city, which is why the regional table varies only in that column.
- Each rate is stamped with the date it became effective and the timestamp of our last check against the source.
Why you can trust the figures here
A price is only worth publishing if a reader can check it, so we have tried to make that easy rather than take our word for it. Every figure on the site traces back to a named public document, and we link to that document rather than paraphrasing it. Nothing is adjusted for presentation, and nothing is behind a payment.
- Sourced, not scraped from other aggregators — we read the regulator's own notification and the marketing company's own price list.
- Dated twice over: the date a rate took effect, and the moment we last verified it against the source.
- Republished verbatim. No rounding, no smoothing, no house average across conflicting numbers.
- Independent of the industry it covers. No regulator, refinery or fuel marketing company funds this site or reviews it before publication.
- Openly corrected. When a figure turns out to be wrong we change it and say so, rather than quietly editing the page.
If any of that stops being true, this section is wrong and we would rather hear about it than leave it standing.
What is measured and what is estimated
We think the difference matters more than the polish, so the site keeps the two visibly apart. Notified prices are reported. Anything forward-looking — the tomorrow's estimate panel, and the per-vehicle running costs in the calculators — is derived, and is labelled as such wherever it appears.
The vehicle economy figures behind the trip calculator are typical real-world averages drawn from what owners in Pakistan actually report, not manufacturer test-cycle claims. A car driven in Karachi traffic with the air conditioning on will not match a brochure, and we would rather be roughly right than precisely optimistic.
How we work
- Corrections come before appearances. If a figure is wrong, we would rather change it quickly than defend it.
- No rate is invented to fill a gap. Where a price is not published, the site says so instead of showing a placeholder.
- We are independent. No regulator, refinery or fuel marketing company has any say in what appears here.
Where to write to us
We are a digital publication with no public counter, so email is our address of record. Everything — corrections, source tips, licensing questions, press enquiries — reaches the same inbox and is read by a person.
Email ushello@petrolratetoday.pkCorrections are the fastest way this site improves, and they get answered first. If you have spotted a figure that looks wrong, or a source we should be reading, the contact page sets out what to include so we can check it quickly.