Cappuccino prices by country
Cappuccino (one regular cup, sit-down café) costs from $1.48 in Egypt to $6.31 in Switzerland, across 32 countries priced in US dollars and in local currency.
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.
The numbers
| Country | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | $1.48 | 75.66 EGP | 49 min |
| Indonesia | $1.54 | 27,778 IDR | 42 min |
| Vietnam | $1.63 | 42,691 VND | 35 min |
| India | $1.70 | 162.34 INR | 41 min |
| Italy | $2.03 | 1.76 EUR | 9 min |
| Brazil | $2.06 | 10.44 BRL | 27 min |
| Thailand | $2.07 | 69.23 THB | 35 min |
| Portugal | $2.16 | 1.88 EUR | 14 min |
| South Africa | $2.31 | 38.24 ZAR | 31 min |
| Spain | $2.46 | 2.14 EUR | 12 min |
| China | $2.96 | 20.04 CNY | 32 min |
| Japan | $3.14 | 497 JPY | 12 min |
| 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 |
| Mexico | $3.76 | 65.19 MXN | 56 min |
| Canada | $3.80 | 5.33 CAD | 10 min |
| Poland | $3.82 | 14.29 PLN | 29 min |
| Australia | $3.95 | 5.63 AUD | 9 min |
| France | $3.95 | 3.43 EUR | 13 min |
| 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 |
| Singapore | $5.15 | 6.61 SGD | 19 min |
| United States | $5.45 | 5.45 USD | 13 min |
| United Arab Emirates | $5.47 | 20.09 AED | 22 min |
| Norway | $5.57 | 52.86 NOK | 12 min |
| Switzerland | $6.31 | 5.1 CHF | 11 min |
Source: Numbeo's country price rankings for 'Cappuccino (regular)' in the restaurant category, retrieved August 2026. Full methodology.
What the spread shows
The cheapest cappuccino in the game is in Egypt at $1.48; the most expensive is in Switzerland at $6.31. That is a 4.3× difference for the same thing, against a median of $3.67 across all 32 countries.
Ranking by earnings instead of dollars rearranges the table. Argentina has the longest wait, about 61 minutes of the average local wage, while in Italy it is roughly 9 minutes. A country can look cheap in dollars and expensive in hours at the same time, and for most people the hours are what actually matter.
Other items
Why this costs what it costs
- The coffee in your coffee costs less than the lidGreen beans are a single-digit share of what a café charges. Where the rest goes, and why a record harvest barely moves the price of a flat white.
- Why poor countries are cheap, and why it is not what you thinkThe real answer has nothing to do with profits or standards. It is a sixty-year-old piece of economics about haircuts, and it explains most of the price map.
- A fifth of what you paid was tax, and you never saw the lineConsumption tax is the largest single wedge between two countries' prices for an identical product, and the one shoppers are least able to see.