Diesel Rate in Prayagraj Today: ₹95.46 per Ltr
Diesel in Prayagraj is ₹95.46 per Ltr today, unchanged from yesterday. That places Prayagraj against a Uttar Pradesh range of ₹95.14 to ₹95.72.
Diesel price in Prayagraj today
Diesel is priced at ₹95.46 per Ltr in Prayagraj today. The rate is unchanged from yesterday's ₹95.46, so there has been no movement to pass on to customers today.
Prayagraj sits in Uttar Pradesh, and the rate you pay at the pump is the rate for Prayagraj — 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 Prayagraj's diesel rate sits in India
Of the 103 cities we track for diesel, 24 quote less than Prayagraj. The cheapest is Port Blair at ₹84.56 per Ltr — ₹10.90 below Prayagraj — and the costliest is Nellore at ₹105.73, ₹10.27 above it.
See the full diesel rate list at all 103 cities we track.
How Prayagraj compares with India's largest cities
Against the 14 largest cities we track, Prayagraj's ₹95.46 per Ltr is ₹5.99 above Chandigarh (₹89.47), the cheapest of them, and ₹8.77 below Hyderabad (₹104.23), the dearest.
Petrol against diesel in Prayagraj today
Diesel in Prayagraj is ₹95.46 per litre against petrol's ₹101.96 — a gap of ₹6.50, or 6.4 per cent. That difference is what a diesel engine returns on every litre, before the higher purchase price of the vehicle is counted. Every city we track in Uttar Pradesh carries the same gap of ₹6.50.
Prayagraj's diesel neighbours in Uttar Pradesh
In Uttar Pradesh, 5 of the 7 cities we track quote less than Prayagraj for diesel.
The nearest cheaper is Noida, at ₹95.44 — ₹0.02 below Prayagraj. The nearest costlier is Varanasi, at ₹95.72 — ₹0.26 above.
Diesel rate in Prayagraj over the last 1 day
Our record for Prayagraj currently holds a single day: ₹95.46 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 Prayagraj and grows by one row every night — it is a record of what was actually published, not a reconstructed series.
Diesel rate across Uttar Pradesh: where Prayagraj stands
Within Uttar Pradesh, diesel ranges from ₹95.14 per Ltr in Agra to ₹95.72 in Varanasi — a spread of ₹0.58, or 0.6 per cent. At ₹95.46, Prayagraj sits somewhere in the middle 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 Uttar Pradesh from another.