Pricele #93: Cappuccino in Ireland 🇮🇪
The puzzle for 1 October 2026 asked what a cappuccino costs in Ireland. Here is the answer and the context behind it.
The answer
Cappuccino · Ireland
$4.56
3.96 EUR
About 14 minutes of the average local wage buys a cappuccino.
More expensive than 77% 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 Ireland sits
Of the 32 countries priced for cappuccino, Ireland ranks #8 from the top at $4.56, 1.2× the median of $3.67.
Ireland is the most expensive eurozone country in most of this table. Wages are high, the retail market is small and geographically isolated, and hospitality prices in particular have run ahead of the euro-area average since 2021. Its tax structure is unusually polarised: 23% standard, among the highest in the EU, alongside zero-rating for most basic food. So an Irish grocery basket carries almost no VAT while an Irish restaurant bill carries a great deal, and the two Irish figures in this table that diverge most from their eurozone neighbours are the prepared ones. Ireland and Spain make the sharpest pair here: same currency, opposite tax philosophies.
| Nearby on the cappuccino table | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | $4.16 | 3.61 EUR | 11 min |
| Netherlands | $4.29 | 3.73 EUR | 13 min |
| Ireland | $4.56 | 3.96 EUR | 14 min |
| United Kingdom | $4.83 | 3.59 GBP | 16 min |
| Sweden | $4.86 | 46.34 SEK | 14 min |
What else costs what in Ireland
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 21 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.94 | 1.85 EUR | 6 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.61 | 1.4 EUR | 5 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $4.50 | 3.91 EUR | 14 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $3.20 | 2.78 EUR | 10 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.07 | 1.8 EUR | 6 min |
| Diesel (1 litre) | $2.20 | 1.9 EUR | 7 min |
| Electricity (100 kWh) | $45.50 | 39.3 EUR | 2.3 h |
| Natural gas (100 kWh) | $12.30 | 10.6 EUR | 37 min |
| Cigarettes (20-pack) | $18.46 | 17.05 EUR | 55 min |
| Beer (330ml) | $2.39 | 2.21 EUR | 7 min |
| Spirits (750ml bottle) | $27.83 | 25.7 EUR | 83 min |
| Vape e-liquid (1 ml) | $3.36 | 3.1 EUR | 10 min |
| Mobile data (1 GB) | $1.50 | — | 5 min |
| A day's healthy diet | $3.11 | 2.75 EUR | 9 min |
Go deeper
See the full table for cappuccino in every country or everything priced in Ireland.