Gas prices near 78216

This is San Antonio's Uptown, built around North Star Mall at the high-traffic corner of San Pedro Avenue and Loop 410, just a couple of miles from the international airport. It is a major retail district, and the dense run of shopping along San Pedro and the Loop supports a thick field of competing gas stations.

The airport proximity adds a wrinkle: rental returns and travelers topping off can prop up prices at the stations closest to the terminals along the Loop 410 frontage. Step back toward the San Pedro retail corridor and the everyday competition usually delivers a better number.

With Loop 410 and US-281 both threading through the area, the freeway-adjacent pumps price for through traffic and travelers. Buying along the interior commercial streets near the mall tends to beat the convenient airport-side corners. Because Uptown packs so much retail into a small footprint, there is rarely just one station to choose from, and the gap between the airport-side pumps and the San Pedro corridor is usually worth the short hop.