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Prices in Austria 🇦🇹

In Austria, mobile data costs $0.51, beer costs $1.44 and gasoline costs $2.04. That is 11 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Austria sells the same branded groceries as Germany at noticeably higher prices, a gap Austrians call the Österreich-Aufschlag and the national competition authority has investigated more than once. Three supermarket groups hold most of the market, and suppliers have been accused of charging Austrian retailers more for identical goods. Tax does not explain it: VAT is 20% with food at 10%, close to the German treatment. Wages are among the highest in the euro area, which keeps the work-time column ordinary. The Big Mac row is the euro-area price, as it is for every eurozone country here, so it says nothing specifically Austrian.

What things cost

ItemUSDWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR16 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)no data
Cappuccinono data
Milk (1 litre)no data
Eggs (dozen)no data
Apples (1 kg)no data
Gasoline (1 litre)$2.041.82 EUR5 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.402.13 EUR6 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$36.9032.8 EUR85 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)$14.7013.1 EUR34 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$7.046.5 EUR16 min
Beer (330ml)$1.441.33 EUR3 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$16.2314.99 EUR38 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$4.334 EUR10 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.511 min
A day's healthy diet$2.692.38 EUR6 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Austria compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Austria is most expensive for vape liquid, where it ranks 4th out of 26 countries at $4.33, against a global median of $3.22.

It is relatively cheapest for mobile data at $0.51, which is 38th of 61, only 23 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 85 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Austria: 20% USt. Ordinary groceries: 10% on food. Where these come from.

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Austria prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Austria?
Pricele publishes 11 everyday prices for Austria, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.51, Beer $1.44, Gasoline $2.04. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.
What currency is used in Austria?
Austria uses the EUR. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.
What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Austria list?
Of the 11 items priced for Austria, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.51 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $36.90. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Austria prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index (euro-area price), Jan 2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 19-Oct-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, March 2026, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (cheapest disposable device), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Austria.