Here's the latest petrol price outlook for June 2025

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The latest available data still shows that good news lies ahead forSouth Africa’s motorists in early June.

With just over a week to go until the new prices come into effect, there is, sadly, every chance that fuel costs may actually increase at the pumps next month – especially for petrol vehicle owners.

Vehicle owners in Mzansi saw a sizeable decrease in the cost of both petrol and diesel earlier this month.

This was mainly due to a lower brent crude oil price and a stronger rand.

Below, the latest projections as received by The South African website from the Central Energy Fund (CEF), effective Monday, 26 May.

FUEL	PRICE CHANGE
Petrol 93	decrease of 19 cents
Petrol 95	decrease of 19 cents
Diesel 0.05%	decrease of 50 cents
Diesel 0.005%	decrease of 50 cents
Illuminating Paraffin	decrease of 54 cents

If the market conditions were to remain consistent for the remainder of the month – an unlikely scenario with the rand/dollar exchange rate fluctuating and the oil price ever changing – a decrease of 19 cents is expected for petrol 93 octane motorists and a decrease of 19 cents for 95 users.

Meanwhile, diesel motorists would see something around a 50 cents per litre decrease.

Finally, illuminating paraffin is expected to drop by 54 cents in price.

FUEL PRICE IN SOUTH AFRICA IMPACTED BY TWO MAIN FACTORS:

1. The international price of petroleum products, driven mainly by oil prices

2. The rand/dollar exchange rate used in the purchase of these products

Oil price

At the time of publishing the brent crude oil price is $64.84 a barrel.

Exchange rate

At the time of publishing the rand/dollar exchange rate is R17.88/$.

The final overall price changes for both petrol and diesel will be confirmed early next month with the new prices taking effect at midnight on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.

Go easy on the accelerator until then, Mzansi.