Canadian city retail gasoline prices, weekly (NRCan)

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Weekly retail price of regular gasoline across 71 Canadian cities plus the Canada national average, published by Natural Resources Canada (2016 -> present, week-ending Tuesdays, cents per litre). Each city/week carries the pump price with its published decomposition: taxes included in the price, marketing margin and refining margin. The intelligence layer adds week-over-week and year-over-year momentum, the city spread versus the national average, 52-week high/low flags and a documented 0-100 fuel cost-pressure score. Joins other Canadian panels on week_ending + city (or province_code). Note: the most recent week is often partial — NRCan publishes before all margins are final, so refining/market margins can be null for the latest week. Source: Natural Resources Canada. Commercial redistribution requires NRCan's prior written permission (see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md).

Source: Canadian city retail fuel prices (NRCan, weekly)
Rows: 40,311
Columns: 20
Source cadence: Weekly
Last refreshed: Oct 1, 2026
Theme: energy

Column	Type	Description
week_ending	date	Week-ending Tuesday of the observation week (NRCan publishes the weekly average retail price). Panel join key; gapless 7-day grid per city. (unit: date)
fuel	string	Fuel covered by this dataset: regular_gasoline or diesel (one dataset per fuel).
city	string	City name as published by NRCan (71 cities), plus 'Canada' for the national average row. Panel join key.
province_code	string	Two-letter province/territory code for the city; null for the Canada national-average row.
province	string	Province/territory name; null for the Canada national-average row.
country	string	Canonical country name (always Canada).
country_code	string	ISO alpha-3 country code (always CAN); joins country-keyed datasets.
price_cents_l	float	Weekly average retail pump price, taxes included, in cents per litre. (unit: cents/L)
taxes_cents_l	float	Tax component included in the pump price (federal excise + provincial + GST/HST), cents per litre. (unit: cents/L)
marketing_margin_cents_l	float	NRCan marketing margin (retail markup over the rack/refiner price), cents per litre. Can be negative when wholesale costs move faster than the pump; null for the latest partial week. (unit: cents/L)
refining_margin_cents_l	float	NRCan refining margin (rack price over crude cost), cents per litre. Null for the latest partial week until NRCan finalizes it. (unit: cents/L)
price_wow_chg	float	Week-over-week change in the pump price, cents per litre (1-week difference). (unit: cents/L)
price_yoy_chg	float	Year-over-year change in the pump price, cents per litre (52-week difference). Null for the first 52 weeks per city. (unit: cents/L)
price_yoy_pct	float	Year-over-year percent change in the pump price. Null for the first 52 weeks per city. (unit: percent)
spread_vs_national_cents_l	float	City pump price minus the Canada national average for the same week, cents per litre. Positive = city pays more than the national average. Null for the Canada row itself. (unit: cents/L)
fuel_cost_pressure_score	float	Documented 0-100 fuel cost-pressure score: 100 * (0.6 * clip01(price_yoy_pct / 50) + 0.4 * clip01(price_wow_chg / 10)). A +50% YoY spike saturates the trend term; a +10 cents/L weekly jump saturates the shock term. Null for the first 52 weeks per city. (unit: score 0-100)
pressure_tier	string	Fixed-cut tier of fuel_cost_pressure_score: surge (>=75), elevated (>=60), moderate (>=45), soft (>=30), slack (<30).
week_52w_high_flag	boolean	True when this week's price is the highest of the trailing 52 weeks (inclusive).
week_52w_low_flag	boolean	True when this week's price is the lowest of the trailing 52 weeks (inclusive).
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex SHA-256 of fuel\|city\|week_ending\|price — stable across re-ingests of identical data.

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

week_ending	fuel	city	province_code	province	country	country_code	price_cents_l	taxes_cents_l	marketing_margin_cents_l	refining_margin_cents_l	price_wow_chg	price_yoy_chg	price_yoy_pct	spread_vs_national_cents_l	fuel_cost_pressure_score	pressure_tier	week_52w_high_flag	week_52w_low_flag	row_hash
2016-01-05	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	107.2	36.2	—	—	—	—	—	5.9	—	—	false	false	3b12c356d14ace5a
2016-01-12	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	94.3	35.7	—	—	-12.9	—	—	-2.5	—	—	false	false	89666b6088ebbc08
2016-01-19	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	90.4	35.5	—	—	-3.9	—	—	-3.3	—	—	false	false	b16cb51043613576
2016-01-26	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	89.9	35.4	—	—	-0.5	—	—	-1.4	—	—	false	false	cec3b0cb34c9e56d
2016-02-02	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	96.8	35.8	—	—	6.9	—	—	3	—	—	false	false	a40c64b33538d3ae
2016-02-09	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	88.9	35.4	—	—	-7.9	—	—	0.3	—	—	false	false	7b930c34ff24d267
2016-02-16	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	88.2	35.4	—	—	-0.7	—	—	0	—	—	false	false	3c8becbaba619558
2016-02-23	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	91.3	35.6	—	—	3.1	—	—	1.2	—	—	false	false	0cc8530388d00b9b
2016-03-01	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	95.9	35.7	—	—	4.6	—	—	6.6	—	—	false	false	b94d0c7c830a9c31
2016-03-08	regular_gasoline	Abbotsford	BC	British Columbia	Canada	CAN	98	35.8	—	—	2.1	—	—	6.5	—	—	false	false	43c1c36ac7c0937b

Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T152216Z-859c124dfbf1

Measured

Completeness: 97.5%
Rows: 40,311
Columns: 20
Columns with gaps: 10

Rows per yearweek_ending · 2016–2026 · 11 years

20162026

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
week_endingdate	0%	541	Jan 5, 2016 → Oct 6, 2026	—
fuelvarchar	0%	1	—	regular_gasoline40,311
cityvarchar	0%	66	—	Abbotsford562 Barrie562 Bathurst562
province_codevarchar	1.4%	11	—	ON10,600 QC5,595 NB5,058
provincevarchar	1.4%	12	—	Ontario10,600 Quebec5,595 New Brunswick5,058
countryvarchar	0%	1	—	Canada40,311
country_codevarchar	0%	1	—	CAN40,311
price_cents_ldouble	0%	1,492	57.9 → 238.7median 132.9	805 outside 1st–99th percentile
taxes_cents_ldouble	0%	635	15 → 67.7median 41.8	788 outside 1st–99th percentile
marketing_margin_cents_ldouble	4.2%	521	-13.8 → 52.6median 9.3	747 outside 1st–99th percentile
refining_margin_cents_ldouble	4.4%	903	-4.7 → 107.4median 26.8	762 outside 1st–99th percentile
price_wow_chgdouble	0.18%	967	-38.4 → 29.1median 0	817 outside 1st–99th percentile
price_yoy_chgdouble	9.3%	4,130	-77.2 → 94median 4.6	730 outside 1st–99th percentile
price_yoy_pctdouble	9.3%	34,683	-50.31 → 103.24median 3.45	732 outside 1st–99th percentile
spread_vs_national_cents_ldouble	1.4%	1,928	-41.6 → 68.7median -2.7	795 outside 1st–99th percentile
fuel_cost_pressure_scoredouble	9.3%	987	0 → 100median 11.7	365 outside 1st–99th percentile
pressure_tiervarchar	9.3%	5	—	slack27,026 soft4,479 moderate2,656
week_52w_high_flagboolean	0%	2	—	false36,353 true3,958
week_52w_low_flagboolean	0%	2	—	false38,294 true2,017
row_hashvarchar	0%	36,092	—	00002fedb3972f8a1 00013671ffbb3e701 00052d17d3b5cc811

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nrcan_city_fuel_intel/ca_city_gasoline_weekly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nrcan_city_fuel_intel/ca_city_gasoline_weekly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nrcan_city_fuel_intel/ca_city_gasoline_weekly

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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Canadian city retail fuel prices (NRCan, weekly). (2026). Canadian city retail gasoline prices, weekly (NRCan) [Data set, snapshot 20261001T152216Z-859c124dfbf1, sha256 859c124dfbf1]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/nrcan_city_fuel_intel/ca_city_gasoline_weekly?snapshot=20261001T152216Z-859c124dfbf1

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@misc{dz_nrcan_city_fuel_intel_ca_city_gasoline_w_859c124d,
  title        = {{Canadian city retail gasoline prices, weekly (NRCan)}},
  author       = {{Canadian city retail fuel prices (NRCan, weekly)}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/nrcan_city_fuel_intel/ca_city_gasoline_weekly?snapshot=20261001T152216Z-859c124dfbf1}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261001T152216Z-859c124dfbf1, sha256 859c124dfbf1271318eb33754af0ce1d25c04d210124538478c2d0706cec9aef; accessed 2026-10-02}
}

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