Diesel Rate in Kochi Today: ₹102.45 per Ltr
Diesel in Kochi is ₹102.45 per Ltr today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Kochi against a Kerala range of ₹102.71 to ₹104.40. With estimated daily demand of about 380 kl/day, the city moves roughly ₹3.89 crore of diesel a day at this rate.
Diesel price in Kochi today
Diesel is priced at ₹102.45 per Ltr in Kochi today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹102.45, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Kochi sits in Kerala, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Kochi — fuel prices in India are set city by city, not district by district, so every pump inside the city limits charges the same figure on the same day.
Where Kochi's diesel rate sits in India
Of the 103 cities we track for diesel, 90 quote less than Kochi. The cheapest is Port Blair at ₹84.56 per Ltr — ₹17.89 below Kochi — and the costliest is Nellore at ₹105.73, ₹3.28 above it.
See the full diesel rate list at all 103 cities we track.
How Kochi compares with India's largest cities
Against the 13 largest cities we track, Kochi's ₹102.45 per Ltr is ₹12.98 above Chandigarh (₹89.47), the cheapest of them, and ₹1.78 below Hyderabad (₹104.23), the dearest.
Petrol against diesel in Kochi today
Diesel in Kochi is ₹102.45 per litre against petrol's ₹113.53 — a gap of ₹11.08, or 9.8 per cent. That difference is what a diesel engine returns on every litre, before the higher purchase price of the vehicle is counted. Across the 4 cities we track in Kerala, that gap runs from ₹11.08 in Kochi to ₹11.14 in Thrissur.
Kochi's diesel neighbours in Kerala
Kochi is the cheapest of the 4 cities we track in Kerala for diesel.
The nearest costlier is Kozhikode, at ₹102.71 — ₹0.26 above.
Diesel rate in Kochi over the last 1 day
Our record for Kochi currently holds a single day: ₹102.45 per Ltr on 17 Oct 2026. A range and a trend need at least two days, so this section fills in as the daily record grows.
This table is built from our own daily record rather than from a third-party feed. That means it starts on the day we began tracking Kochi and grows by one row every night — it is a record of what was actually published, not a reconstructed series.
Diesel rate across Kerala: where Kochi stands
Within Kerala, diesel ranges from ₹102.71 per Ltr in Kozhikode to ₹104.40 in Thiruvananthapuram — a spread of ₹1.69, or 1.6 per cent. At ₹102.45, Kochi sits at the bottom of that range.
A gap of that size is almost always tax rather than transport. Central excise duty is uniform nationwide, but state VAT and local levies are not, and that is what separates one city in Kerala from another.
Kochi at a glance
Kochi has a population of roughly 7,00,000, based on our most recent estimate (as of 31 Mar 2024). These are planning estimates rather than a census count, and they are published here so you can judge what the rest of this page means in context.
How much Kochi spends on diesel in a day
Our working estimate for fuel demand in Kochi is around 380 kl/day, again an estimate rather than a metered figure. At today's diesel price of ₹102.45 per Ltr, that demand represents roughly ₹3.89 crore of fuel changing hands in the city every single day.
The arithmetic behind that number is deliberately simple — litres multiplied by the price — and we spell it out so you can substitute your own figure if you have better local data. What it shows is why a small-looking revision matters so much at city scale.