LPG price in Pakistan November 2026: OGRA sets the cylinder at Rs 3,470.09 — and shops are charging far more
An 11.8 kg LPG cylinder can cost at most Rs 3,470.09 in November 2026. That is the figure the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority set, and it has applied across Pakistan since 1 November. It is Rs 173.86 more than October's cap. And in parts of the country, it is not the price anyone is actually paying.
Open-market sellers were charging up to Rs 630 a kg in the first days of November, while company-operated franchises charged up to Rs 400. At Rs 630 a kg, the same cylinder costs Rs 7,434 — Rs 3,963.91 above the cap, more than double. The gap, not the Rs 173.86 rise, is the story of this winter's cooking gas.
Both numbers matter. The OGRA figure is the most a seller may charge. The market figure is what a household with an empty cylinder may have to find. This article keeps them apart: OGRA figures come from the November notification as printed, market figures are attributed to the reporting that carried them, and nothing here is a shop price checked in person.
What OGRA actually set
OGRA signed the November notification on 31 October 2026, and the new prices took effect the next day. The notification sets a maximum consumer price of Rs 294,075.47 a tonne. Divide by a thousand and you get Rs 294.08 a kg, the figure most reports quote. Multiply that by 11.8 kg and you get Rs 3,470.14, five paisa more than OGRA's own cylinder figure. Use OGRA's figure. The per-kg number is rounded; the cylinder figure is the one the notification prints.
October's cap was Rs 279,341.49 a tonne and Rs 3,296.23 for the cylinder. November is Rs 14.74 a kg higher and Rs 173.86 higher on the cylinder — about 5.3 percent, by our arithmetic from OGRA's two notifications.
A maximum is not a fixed price. The notification says it applies at every level, from producer to shop, and sellers may charge less. A seller may not charge more. If a shop asks more than Rs 3,470.09 for a standard cylinder in November, it is above the cap. Keep the receipt, and note the shop's name and the brand on the cylinder.
Here is how OGRA builds the November price, line by line, exactly as the notification prints it. The producer price is the cost of the gas itself, blended 40 percent propane and 60 percent butane, before levy and tax.
| Part of the price | Per tonne | Per 11.8 kg cylinder |
|---|---|---|
| Producer price (40% propane, 60% butane) | Rs 209,547.50 | Rs 2,472.66 |
| Petroleum levy | Rs 4,669.00 | Rs 55.09 |
| 18% GST on producer price and levy | Rs 38,558.97 | Rs 455.00 |
| Marketing, distribution and transport margins | Rs 35,000 | Rs 413.00 |
| 18% GST on margins | Rs 6,300 | Rs 74.34 |
| Maximum consumer price | Rs 294,075.47 | Rs 3,470.09 |
The margins split three ways, and none moved: Rs 17,000 a tonne for marketing, Rs 10,000 for distribution and Rs 8,000 for transport. The two GST lines take Rs 529.34 of every cylinder, and with the levy the state's direct take is Rs 584.43. Those are our additions from OGRA's printed lines, and they reconcile to the cylinder total to the paisa.
OGRA prices only the 11.8 kg cylinder by name. The per-kg ceiling sets the limit for every other size: a 6 kg cylinder comes to Rs 1,764.48, a 15 kg cylinder to Rs 4,411.20 and a 45.4 kg commercial cylinder to Rs 13,351.23, by our multiplication at Rs 294.08. The 11.8 kg figure is OGRA's own.
The producer price did all the damage
Compare November with October and one line explains the whole rise. The producer price went from Rs 197,061.08 to Rs 209,547.50 a tonne — Rs 147.34 on a cylinder. The GST on that higher price added Rs 26.53. Together, Rs 173.87, with one paisa lost to rounding. Margins and the levy did not change. Nothing else in the build moved.
Why did the producer price move? The notification itself, as transcribed, gives no reason. The explanation reported alongside it is international: OGRA said the producer price is linked to the Saudi Aramco contract price and the dollar rate, that the Aramco price rose 6.47 percent while the average dollar rate fell 0.12 percent, and that the net effect was Rs 14.73 a kg. That comes from the 1 November coverage, not from the notification's printed breakdown.
This is the fourth monthly rise in a row. Since July, when a cylinder was capped at Rs 2,848.91, the cap has climbed Rs 621.18, or about 21.8 percent. August added Rs 152.01. September added Rs 51.17. October added Rs 244.14, the largest of the four. November added Rs 173.86. The run is steady, and it is not yet at the year's worst point. June's cap was Rs 3,643.41, which is Rs 173.32 above November's. A household that remembers June knows this price can go higher.
Over the full year the climb is steeper still. January's per-kg price was Rs 219.68; November's Rs 294.08 is Rs 74.40 higher, about 33.9 percent. Gas has risen by a third in ten months on the official price alone, before any market premium.
Energy prices feed into the wider inflation picture: the State Bank raised its policy rate to 12 percent in late October in part because energy prices were staying high, as the site's account of the 12 percent policy rate decision sets out. An LPG rise does not stay in the kitchen. It lands in food costs and in the monthly arithmetic of every household without piped gas.
The cap and the shop price are two different numbers
Now the uncomfortable part. OGRA's cap is Rs 294 a kg. The open market, in the reporting from 1 November, reached Rs 630 a kg. Company-operated franchises, which ought to be the disciplined end of the trade, charged up to Rs 400 a kg. At the franchise rate, a cylinder costs Rs 4,720, which is Rs 1,249.91 above the cap. At the open-market rate, it costs Rs 7,434. The difference between the two reported market prices is itself Rs 2,714 on one cylinder. Where you buy matters more than the notification does, at least while the shortage lasts.
The shortage has a stated cause. Irfan Khokhar, chairman of the LPG Distributors Association of Pakistan, said at least 70 percent of Pakistan's LPG is imported from Iran and 30 percent is produced locally, and he linked the shortage to the closure of the Iran border. He called on the government to act against market manipulation. The same reporting links the disruption to the wider regional conflict and to suspended supplies at the border crossings. That is the distributors' account, reported on 1 November. It is not an official finding, and this article does not present it as one.
There is also a policy fight underneath the shortage. Ali Haider, chairman of the Pakistan LPG Marketers Association, said marketing companies would shut down from 16 November if the private sector is sidelined in the coming LPG policy, and that the association had written to the petroleum minister saying the draft policy contained no private-sector input. He put Gulf imports at about 225,000 tonnes out of roughly 1.3 million tonnes consumed, and alleged that the Rs 4,669-a-tonne levy collected since 2016 to fund emergency imports by state entities had not produced imports during the shortage. Those are the association's claims, reported on 1 November, in a live policy argument — not settled facts.
None of this helps a household at a shop with an empty cylinder. What helps is knowing the cap, asking for a receipt showing the price, date and seller's name, and checking the weight printed on the cylinder against the per-kg ceiling. A very cheap cylinder from an unknown filler is a different risk from an expensive one, but price is what OGRA has fixed, and Rs 3,470.09 is the number to carry into the shop.
Households on piped gas face a different winter. The worked winter bills for Sui gas slabs show protected consumers paying far less per unit than non-protected ones. LPG households have no protected slab. Every rupee of the rise lands on the cylinder, and every rupee of premium lands on top of it.
What a household should budget
Budget from the cap, then add a margin for what your area actually charges. One cylinder a month at the cap is Rs 3,470.09; two is Rs 6,940.18. Neither figure includes delivery or a market premium. At the reported Rs 630-a-kg rate, one cylinder a month is Rs 7,434, or Rs 89,208 over a year, against Rs 41,641.08 at the cap. The Rs 47,566.92 gap measures the shortage's scale for a one-cylinder household. It assumes the market rate held all year, which it has not. It is a measure of scale, not a forecast.
Smaller cylinders do not save money per kilogram. A 6 kg cylinder at Rs 1,764.48 lasts roughly half as long as the standard one, so a household using it buys twice as often and pays the same total for the same gas, plus any delivery charge twice. The 45.4 kg commercial cylinder, at Rs 13,351.23, is the same gas at the same ceiling. Buying bigger does not beat the cap.
Petrol and diesel move on a different timetable. The October petrol and diesel notifications and household budgets show fuel revised every fortnight, while LPG is revised monthly. The November notice was signed on 31 October; on that pattern the December price should be signed on 30 November. Do not guess it. The producer price can move either way in a month, and the shortage premium is separate from the notification altogether.
Check three things before December: what you actually paid for your last cylinder, receipt against cap; whether the December notification moves the producer price or only the margins and levy; and whether the supply position behind the market premium has changed. The third is the one that decides whether the cap or the shop price is the real price next month.
OGRA's figures are maximums, not fixed shop prices. Market prices reported here are from 1 November reporting and will have moved since. Check the weight and price on your own cylinder and receipt before paying, and confirm the current notification on OGRA's LPG prices page before relying on a figure quoted elsewhere.
Sources
- Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority — Indigenous LPG Prices Notification for November 2026 (PDF, 31 October 2026)
- PakEra — LPG Price November 2026: 11.8kg Cylinder Rs 3,470.09
- TechJuice — LPG Cylinder Now Costs Double the Official Price as Shortage Hits Pakistan, 1 November 2026
- Zaviya — OGRA Lifts 11.8-kg LPG Cylinder by Rs 173.86 in November
