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Prices in Czechia 🇨🇿

In Czechia, beer costs $0.47, diesel costs $2.10 and healthy diet costs $2.60. That is 10 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in CZK, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Czechia is inside the EU and outside the euro, so a koruna price converts through a rate that moves, and dollar figures here drift for reasons that have nothing to do with Czech shops. Wages are well below western Europe and rising faster. The VAT band is worth reading precisely: the reduced 12% rate covers groceries but explicitly excludes most drinks, so milk and a soft drink sitting next to each other on a shelf carry different tax. Household energy has been among Europe's dearer since 2022, which shows in the electricity and gas rows rather than in the food ones.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$5.50115 CZK31 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)no data
Diesel (1 litre)$2.1043.97 CZK12 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$35.90749.7 CZK3.3 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$10.30215.6 CZK57 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$6.30148 CZK35 min
Beer (330ml)$0.4711.15 CZK3 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$10.20239.85 CZK57 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$3.3879.5 CZK19 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$3.12—17 min
A day's healthy diet$2.6056.97 CZK14 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 Czechia compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Czechia is most expensive for electricity (100 kWh), where it ranks 6th out of 48 countries at $35.90, against a global median of $20.65.

It is relatively cheapest for beer at $0.47, which is 41st of 42, only 1 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 3.3 hours 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 Czechia: 21% VAT. Ordinary groceries: 12% on groceries, excluding most drinks. Where these come from.

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Czechia prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Czechia?
Pricele publishes 10 everyday prices for Czechia, each from a named source. Beer $0.47, Diesel $2.10, Healthy diet $2.60. 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 Czechia?
Czechia uses the CZK. 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 Czechia list?
Of the 10 items priced for Czechia, the cheapest is Beer at $0.47 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $35.90. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Czechia prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, 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 Czechia.