How the "nearest station" search works
When you tap "Allow location" your browser shares your latitude and longitude with this page. We send those coordinates to our backend, which queries the database for stations within your chosen radius and returns them sorted by distance. The API route is excluded from our origin access log, and the coordinates are not saved in our application database or associated with an account or profile. If you prefer not to share GPS, you can search by Vancouver postal code instead; we map the first three characters (the forward sortation area) to a representative point and search from there.
How wide a radius makes sense in Vancouver depends on where you are. Downtown is the famous exception: the peninsula has almost no gas stations left, so if you're in the West End or Yaletown you'll likely be routed over to Main Street, Terminal Avenue, or across the Burrard or Cambie bridges no matter what radius you pick. Along the city's arterials — Kingsway, Knight Street, East Hastings, SE Marine Drive, West Broadway — a 3–5 km radius usually surfaces half a dozen options. Out in Burnaby, Richmond, or Surrey, station density is higher and the discount operators (Costco in Port Coquitlam and Langley, Super Save, and the Mobil-branded Superstore pumps) become options, so a slightly wider search often finds a meaningfully cheaper price.
Nearest is not always cheapest
The list below is sorted by distance by default, but each card shows the regular price too. Two things to keep in mind:
- Routine fill-ups should optimise for time, not pennies. If you fill up twice a month on your commute home, the closest station on your route wins almost every time. Shaving 3¢/L on a 45-litre tank is $1.35 — not worth a 15-minute detour over the Lions Gate or Ironworkers bridge in traffic.
- Long-trip fill-ups should optimise for price. Heading up the Sea-to-Sky to Whistler, out to the Okanagan, or catching a ferry to the Island? Top up at the cheapest station you can find before leaving the city. Highway and resort-corridor gas can run 10–20¢/L higher than the best Metro Vancouver price, and you'll burn more fuel on the trip than on a commute.
- Watch the brand pattern. The Costco gas bars in Port Coquitlam and Langley are usually the cheapest pumps in the entire region, but they're the only two in Metro Vancouver — there are none in Vancouver proper. Super Save and other independents along Kingsway, East Hastings, and in Surrey also price aggressively to draw traffic away from Chevron, Shell, and Petro-Canada.
You can refine the list using the distance and maximum price filters once your location loads. As with the cheapest-today page, prices come from a feed that refreshes hourly, so confirm the pump display before you start fuelling.
Browse gas stations by Vancouver area
Prefer to browse by part of the city instead of sharing your location? See live prices for Downtown Vancouver, the West Side, Central Vancouver, East Vancouver, South Vancouver and New Westminster, or check the cheapest gas in Vancouver today.