Pricele #40: Cappuccino in Turkey 🇹🇷
The puzzle for 9 August 2026 asked what one regular cup, sit-down café of cappuccino costs in Turkey. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Cappuccino · Turkey
$3.60
171.17 TRY
About 54 minutes of the average local wage buys one.
Cheaper than 55% of the 32 countries in the game.
Source: Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08.
About cappuccino
A cappuccino is priced almost entirely by what surrounds it. Coffee beans are a global commodity that costs roughly the same everywhere, so nearly all of the difference between a $1.50 cup and a $6.50 cup is local rent, wages and what the market will bear. That makes it one of the sharpest signals of local cost of living in the game.
Where Turkey sits
Of the 32 countries priced for cappuccino, Turkey ranks #18 from the top at $3.60 — 2% below the median of $3.67.
Turkey has run high inflation for several years, so lira prices climb quickly while the currency falls against the dollar. The two roughly offset, which keeps Turkish dollar prices low but makes any single reading unusually time-sensitive. KDV is 20% standard with reduced bands of 10% and 1% covering most food, and those bands have themselves been moved repeatedly during the inflation of recent years. Turkey is the country in this table where the collection date matters most after Argentina: the figures are not wrong so much as perishable.
| Nearby on the cappuccino table | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | $3.45 | 5.87 NZD | 9 min |
| Argentina | $3.53 | 5,254.24 ARS | 61 min |
| Turkey | $3.60 | 171.17 TRY | 54 min |
| South Korea | $3.64 | 5,235 KRW | 16 min |
| Saudi Arabia | $3.70 | 13.88 SAR | 19 min |
What else costs what in Turkey
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.90 | 255 TRY | 89 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.95 | 35 TRY | 14 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.02 | 48.5 TRY | 15 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $2.13 | 101.28 TRY | 32 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.80 | 85.59 TRY | 27 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.30 | 61.81 TRY | 20 min |
Go deeper
See the full table for cappuccino in every country or everything priced in Turkey.