Trends · data through July 2026

Gas Stations in California

Iceflower tracks 2,759 stores from 471 gas stations chains in California. Exxon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Marathon and Love's Travel Stop.

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
471
Tracked stores
2,759
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 +9.0%
2 M Marathon logo Marathon ▲3 +7.3%
3 L Love's Travel Stop logo Love's Travel Stop - +3.8%
4 S Shell logo Shell - +3.5%
5 R Rotten Robbie logo Rotten Robbie ▲1 +2.4%
6 S Sinclair ▲2 +1.4%
7 V Valero logo Valero ▲1 -0.9%
8 T The Station ▲2 -2.0%
9 W World Oil ▲2 -3.2%
10 C Chevron logo Chevron - -3.7%
11 Q Qwik Korner ▲1 -4.7%
12 S San Diego Gasoline ▼1 -5.7%
13 V VP Racing Fuels logo VP Racing Fuels ▲1 -5.8%
14 R Ramco Petroleum ▲2 -6.4%
15 P Pilot Flying J logo Pilot Flying J - -7.4%
  • Chevron
  • Shell
  • 76
  • Speedway
  • Exxon
  • Fastrip
  • ARCO
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,759 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chevron (573)
  • Shell (451)
  • 76 (275)
  • Speedway (201)
  • Exxon (188)
  • Fastrip (53)
  • ARCO (106)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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