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What does diesel cost in Costa Rica today?

Fuel prices in Costa Rica, from Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos. An official figure as of 3 October 2026. The regulated maximum price of diesel (automotive, 50 ppm sulphur) in Costa Rica is CRC 785 per litre (IVA included), in force since 2026-10-03. This is the price ARESEP fixes for the whole country, not a measured station price. Posted regulated maximum from ARESEP, passed on unchanged.

Posted pump prices: what each filling station displays for a litre, as published in the official feed. They are not individual receipts.

CRC 785 per litre, average

The regulated maximum price of diesel (automotive, 50 ppm sulphur) in Costa Rica is CRC 785 per litre (IVA included), in force since 2026-10-03. This is the price ARESEP fixes for the whole country, not a measured station price. Posted regulated maximum from ARESEP, passed on unchanged.

Reference period
2026-10-03 (the period the publisher states for this figure)
Kind of figure
An official average published by Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos. It is passed on as published: no range of ours, and no count of records unless the publisher gives one.

A regulated maximum consumer price fixed by ARESEP for the whole country, not what a particular station charged.

Source: Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos. Licence: No reuse licence is stated on the ARESEP open-data page; published as open data. Free tier only until the licence is cleared. Live answer: /api/v1/fuel?country=CR&fuel=diesel

Where this comes from

Source
ARESEP fuel tariffs: maximum consumer prices of hydrocarbons, colones per litre, published by Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP), Costa Rica
Licence
No reuse licence is stated on the ARESEP open-data page; published as open data. Free tier only until the licence is cleared
Attribution
Fuente: ARESEP, Datos abiertos, Tarifas de combustibles (aresep.go.cr/datos-abiertos). Passed on as published by ProofPrice, which adds no change to the figure.
Figures as of
. This page is rebuilt when the daily price library is deployed.
How fresh the source is
Updated when ARESEP fixes a new tariff (about once a month, sometimes more often); every answer states the date the price applies from
Limits
A regulated MAXIMUM price fixed by the regulator for the whole country, not what a given station charged and not a transaction; there is no range and no count of stations. Only petrol95 (Gasolina RON 95) and diesel (50 ppm) are offered; Gasolina RON 91 is given as extra information. LPG, kerosene, aviation fuel and industrial products are not offered. Area, town and postcode are not used: the price is national.
Rule
A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.

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