Evening edition · Monday, 26 October 2026
Ordinary Ledger: the afternoon price is €174.58
Heating oil edged up 24 cents per 100 litres between Monday morning and afternoon on the German average, although Brent fell. The exchange reaches the tank a day late.
The German average for 100 litres of heating oil stood at €174.58 on Monday afternoon, for a standard order, according to HeizOel241. That is €3.94 more than a week ago and €41.03 more than three months ago1. This morning the same page showed €174.34. Brent, meanwhile, fell more than 1.5% during the day2.
The ledger. Desk arithmetic: a 3,000-litre delivery at the afternoon average costs about €5,237, roughly €7 more than at breakfast and about €1,231 more than three months ago. A detached house uses 2,000 to 3,000 litres a year, by the portal’s rule of thumb1.
The lag. A cheaper barrel does not make a cheaper tank on the same day. Taxes, the CO₂ levy, the dollar and dealers’ margins sit between them, and the portal itself rates the moment to buy as “ungünstig”, unfavourable1. An order is binding, and the price holds until delivery in two to four weeks1.
Nothing here is advice.
What to watch
- Tuesday's average: the portal says the exchange moves the household price the next day1.
The household that writes down its own price twice a day learns the most important thing about markets: they are slower than headlines.
Sources
- Heizölpreise aktuell für Deutschland — HeizOel24, 26 Oct 2026, retrieved 16:45 CET.
- Oil slips but stays near six-month highs on Saudi attacks — Business Recorder (Reuters), 26 Oct 2026.
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