The far-too-early petrol price forecast for July 2025 looks GOOD

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The very early data suggests that more good news lies ahead for South Africa’s motorists in July 2025.

Vehicle owners in South Africa saw a sizeable decrease in the cost of both petrol and diesel last week.

Should the rand continue to strengthen against the dollar and the brent crude oil price not rise above its current levels, there could well be more reason to cheer in three weeks’ time.

Below, the latest projections as received by The South African website from the Central Energy Fund (CEF), effective Tuesday, 10 June.

FUEL	PRICE CHANGE
Petrol 93	decrease of 19 cents
Petrol 95	decrease of 16 cents
Diesel 0.05%	decrease of 25 cents
Diesel 0.005%	decrease of 24 cents
Illuminating Paraffin	decrease of 35 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 16 cents for 95 users.

Meanwhile, diesel motorists would see something between a 24 and 25 cents per litre decrease.

Finally, illuminating paraffin is expected to drop by 35 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 $66.95 a barrel.

Exchange rate

At the time of publishing the rand/dollar exchange rate is R17.71/$.

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, 1 July 2025.

Go easy on the accelerator until then, Mzansi.