Gas prices in Victoria, B.C.

Victoria's own monthly series

Victoria is a separate line in the Statistics Canada table of retail fuel prices. It is a monthly average, so the newest figure always trails by several weeks; on October 26, 2026 it is the September 2026 average. The table gives each fuel with that month and the estimate for October 27, 2026.

The estimate starts from the month and adds the change in the Edmonton rack price published since, plus GST, and any tax change dated in between. No B.C. tax changed between that month and tomorrow, so for Victoria the estimate moves with the wholesale market only.

Island price, lower tax

The two B.C. cities with a transit fuel tax make a useful comparison, because their tax is known to the tenth of a cent. At the September 2026 averages, tax takes 30.0¢/L of a Victoria litre and 37.0¢/L of a Vancouver litre. What remains, the product and margins, is 7.5¢/L higher in Victoria. That pre-tax gap is what drivers on the island pay for their market, and it explains why a lower tax does not always mean a lower pump price.

The comparison uses the estimates for both cities, built from the same Edmonton rack price, so the gap it shows is the one between the two monthly averages carried forward. For cities in the Okanagan and the north, which pay neither transit levy, see the Kelowna page.

Where the 20 cents go

Gasoline sold in the Victoria regional transit area pays 20 cents of motor fuel tax per litre: the provincial rate of 14.5 cents charged throughout B.C., and 5.5 cents for BC Transit. Diesel pays 20.5 cents. GST at 5% is charged on the price including those cents, and B.C. charges no provincial sales tax on fuel.

The B.C. carbon tax, which used to be a separate line, was eliminated on April 1, 2025. The federal excise tax has been suspended since April 20, 2026, and its return is the next dated change that will move the Victoria price.

The proposed excise return

Finance Canada's draft legislation (proposed, not enacted) extends the suspension to January 31, 2027, then charges half the excise in February and March 2027 and all of it from April 1, 2027: 10 cents a litre on gasoline and 4 on diesel, before GST. For a household that buys a given number of litres each month, the calculator shows the extra cost.

The draft schedule is not yet law; the forecast page follows it, and the tax page lists every rate by province.

Thirteen months in Victoria

The Statistics Canada series is under the Open Government Licence, so its recent months are shown below, newest first.