Commute Cost Calculator — Fuel, Entered Costs & Fare Comparison
Price your own commute using one-way distance, one-way trips and measured fuel economy. Fuel is shown separately from maintenance and other costs. Enter your actual pump price, or explicitly select a historical NBS petrol benchmark. The starting distance, trips and efficiency are hypothetical examples—not typical Nigerian driving conditions.
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Not full vehicle ownership cost; fuel-only amount is shown separately
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Before you rely on this
- This is not a complete ownership-cost estimate. Depreciation, insurance, licensing, finance, parking and tolls are excluded unless you allocate them in other costs. Do not add amounts already covered by the maintenance allowance.
- NBS benchmarks are historical national or state/FCT averages for petrol, not current pump quotes, city prices or diesel/CNG prices. The May report is the source verified for this release, not a claim to have verified the latest publication.
- Fuel economy depends on the vehicle, route, load, traffic and driving conditions. Measure it for your use; no percentage traffic or air-conditioning penalty is automatically assumed.
- A fare comparison covers the number of one-way journeys entered, not travel time, comfort, reliability or all vehicle ownership costs. No mode is automatically declared cheaper.
How this is calculated: NBS Premium Motor Spirit Price Watch, May 2026; official workbook Fuel_MAY_2026.xlsx, sheet Fuel MAY 2026, column D. National average D41; state/FCT rows D4:D40. Source links and dated values below. · Data as of 2026-09-28
May 2026 benchmark, published 24 June 2026; verified 28 September 2026. Not a September pump quote or a city/route price. Personal fares, maintenance and other expenses are user inputs, not official observations.
Fuel-only versus broader entered costs
Fuel-only = distance ÷ km per litre × price per litre. The broader subtotal adds only your maintenance allowance and other monthly costs. It is not a claim to measure full vehicle ownership costs.
Worked example — hypothetical inputs
25 km one way × 10 one-way trips/week × 48 commuting weeks = 12,000 km/year. At 10 km/L and a hypothetical ₦1,500/L, fuel is ₦1,800,000/year or ₦150,000 per average month. If you enter ₦20/km maintenance and ₦5,000/month other costs, the subtotal is ₦175,000/month. Those allowances are examples, not market estimates.
A user-entered complete fare of ₦1,000 each way over those same journeys gives ₦40,000 per average month. It is not an official or route-specific fare estimate. Annualisation uses your commuting weeks, not a fixed 4.348-week month.
NBS petrol benchmarks — May 2026, not current quotes
Official NBS report and workbook (ZIP) · NBS catalogue. Published 2026-06-24, reviewed 2026-09-28. Historical average retail prices, not September pump quotes or guaranteed local prices. This is the May report verified for this release, not a claim to have verified the latest publication. State averages are not city or station prices. Values rounded to two decimals from the official workbook.
Inspect the dated national and state/FCT benchmarks
| Area | Average | Workbook cell |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria — national average | ₦1,596.25 | D41 |
| Abia State | ₦1,653.91 | D4 |
| FCT (Abuja) | ₦1,602.64 | D5 |
| Adamawa State | ₦1,469.83 | D6 |
| Akwa Ibom State | ₦1,629.08 | D7 |
| Anambra State | ₦1,519.72 | D8 |
| Bauchi State | ₦1,715.47 | D9 |
| Bayelsa State | ₦1,591.38 | D10 |
| Benue State | ₦1,698.57 | D11 |
| Borno State | ₦1,551.07 | D12 |
| Cross River State | ₦1,551.21 | D13 |
| Delta State | ₦1,667.68 | D14 |
| Ebonyi State | ₦1,633.38 | D15 |
| Edo State | ₦1,722.91 | D16 |
| Ekiti State | ₦1,598.56 | D17 |
| Enugu State | ₦1,570.23 | D18 |
| Gombe State | ₦1,686.37 | D19 |
| Imo State | ₦1,592.34 | D20 |
| Jigawa State | ₦1,650.99 | D21 |
| Kaduna State | ₦1,573.46 | D22 |
| Kano State | ₦1,607.27 | D23 |
| Katsina State | ₦1,470.63 | D24 |
| Kebbi State | ₦1,554.94 | D25 |
| Kogi State | ₦1,534.32 | D26 |
| Kwara State | ₦1,555.67 | D27 |
| Lagos State | ₦1,561.22 | D28 |
| Nasarawa State | ₦1,576.12 | D29 |
| Niger State | ₦1,538.33 | D30 |
| Ogun State | ₦1,598.32 | D31 |
| Ondo State | ₦1,598.70 | D32 |
| Osun State | ₦1,537.00 | D33 |
| Oyo State | ₦1,639.97 | D34 |
| Plateau State | ₦1,623.76 | D35 |
| Rivers State | ₦1,580.76 | D36 |
| Sokoto State | ₦1,489.33 | D37 |
| Taraba State | ₦1,647.94 | D38 |
| Yobe State | ₦1,665.91 | D39 |
| Zamfara State | ₦1,602.12 | D40 |