Trends · data through August 2026

Gas Stations in California

Iceflower tracks 2,765 stores from 475 gas stations chains in California. Exxon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Marathon and Shell.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
475
Tracked stores
2,765
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas stations chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Exxon and Marathon sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Exxon logo Exxon ▲2 +10.5%
2 M Marathon logo Marathon ▲3 +10.3%
3 S Shell logo Shell - +4.7%
4 S Sinclair logo Sinclair ▲1 +3.6%
5 R Rotten Robbie logo Rotten Robbie ▲1 +3.2%
6 L Love's Travel Stop logo Love's Travel Stop ▲1 +2.0%
7 V Valero logo Valero ▲1 +1.1%
8 W World Oil ▲1 -1.3%
9 C Chevron logo Chevron - -2.5%
10 C Costco Gas logo Costco Gas ▼1 -4.0%
11 Q Qwik Korner ▲1 -4.1%
12 S San Diego Gasoline ▼1 -4.4%
13 V VP Racing Fuels logo VP Racing Fuels ▲1 -5.1%
14 R Ramco Petroleum ▲2 -5.5%
15 P Pilot Flying J logo Pilot Flying J - -6.4%
  • Chevron
  • Shell
  • 76
  • Speedway
  • Exxon
  • Fastrip
  • ARCO
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,765 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chevron (567)
  • Shell (457)
  • 76 (280)
  • Speedway (200)
  • Exxon (188)
  • Fastrip (53)
  • ARCO (106)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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