Pricele #47: Cappuccino in Poland 🇵🇱
The puzzle for 16 August 2026 asked what a cappuccino costs in Poland. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Cappuccino · Poland
$3.82
14.29 PLN
About 29 minutes of the average local wage buys a cappuccino.
More expensive than 61% 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 Poland sits
Of the 32 countries priced for cappuccino, Poland ranks #13 from the top at $3.82, 1.0× the median of $3.67.
Poland is among the cheapest EU countries in the game while having wages well above the global median, which makes its work-time figures unusually good. The złoty floats independently of the euro, so Polish prices move against eurozone neighbours from year to year. Basic food carries 5% VAT against a 23% standard rate, so a Polish grocery basket is taxed at roughly a fifth of the rate applied to everything else. Poland is the best illustration here of why work time is a better comparison than dollars: on price alone it looks like a poor country, and on hours worked it does not.
What else costs what in Poland
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $6.25 | 22.7 PLN | 47 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.47 | 5.99 PLN | 11 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.06 | 3.97 PLN | 8 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $3.65 | 13.65 PLN | 27 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.19 | 4.45 PLN | 9 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.63 | 6.1 PLN | 12 min |
| Diesel (1 litre) | $2.14 | 8.01 PLN | 16 min |
| Electricity (100 kWh) | $24.50 | 91.4 PLN | 3.1 h |
| Natural gas (100 kWh) | $12.00 | 44.7 PLN | 1.5 h |
| Cigarettes (20-pack) | $4.91 | 19.5 PLN | 37 min |
| Beer (330ml) | $0.65 | 2.56 PLN | 5 min |
| Spirits (750ml bottle) | $13.02 | 51.66 PLN | 1.6 h |
| Vape e-liquid (1 ml) | $3.39 | 13.45 PLN | 25 min |
| Mobile data (1 GB) | $0.37 | — | 3 min |
| A day's healthy diet | $2.45 | 9.23 PLN | 18 min |
Go deeper
See the full table for cappuccino in every country or everything priced in Poland.