Prices in Finland 🇫🇮

In Finland, mobile data costs $0.52, beer costs $1.49 and gasoline costs $2.62. 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.

Finland has one of the highest standard VAT rates in the world, 25.5% since 2024, with food at 13.5%. Alcohol is the clearest Finnish price: drinks above 8% are sold only through Alko, the state retail monopoly, and excise duty is among the highest in the EU, so a bottle of beer is priced well above the European middle. Electricity has moved the other way. The Olkiluoto 3 reactor came online in 2023 and, with growing wind power, has given Finland some of the cheapest wholesale power in western Europe. The Big Mac row is the euro-area price, shared with every eurozone country here.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$7.056.08 EUR	6.08 EUR	19 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	no data
Cappuccino	no data
Milk (1 litre)	no data
Eggs (dozen)	no data
Apples (1 kg)	no data
Gasoline (1 litre)	$2.622.33 EUR	2.33 EUR	7 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$2.852.54 EUR	2.54 EUR	8 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$16.0014.2 EUR	14.2 EUR	42 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$14.2012.6 EUR	12.6 EUR	37 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$10.9410.1 EUR	10.1 EUR	29 min
Beer (330ml)	$1.491.38 EUR	1.38 EUR	4 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$22.5420.82 EUR	20.82 EUR	59 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	$4.283.95 EUR	3.95 EUR	11 min
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.52	—	1 min
A day's healthy diet	$3.483.08 EUR	3.08 EUR	9 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 Finland compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Finland is most expensive for gasoline, where it ranks 1st out of 61 countries at $2.62, against a global median of $1.54.

It is relatively cheapest for mobile data at $0.52, which is 37th of 61, only 24 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is spirits, at roughly 59 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 Finland: 25.5% ALV. Ordinary groceries: 13.5% on food. Where these come from.

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Finland prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Finland?

Pricele publishes 11 everyday prices for Finland, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.52, Beer $1.49, Gasoline $2.62. 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 Finland?

Finland 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 Finland list?

Of the 11 items priced for Finland, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.52 and the most expensive is Spirits at $22.54. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Finland 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 Finland.