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Prices in France 🇫🇷

In France, mobile data costs $0.20, milk costs $1.37 and coca-cola costs $1.68. That is 16 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.

France sits in the middle of the eurozone range. Its grocery sector is shaped by decades of price-control law governing what supermarkets may charge relative to what they pay suppliers, which compresses the spread between chains. Food carries 5.5% TVA against a 20% standard rate, one of the wider gaps in Europe between what a country charges on groceries and what it charges on everything else. The café items are the ones to watch here: prepared food and drink consumed on the premises are taxed differently from the same items taken away, which is part of why a French cappuccino and a French litre of milk sit in such different places relative to their neighbours.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR24 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$1.681.6 EUR6 min
Cappuccino$3.953.43 EUR13 min
Milk (1 litre)$1.371.19 EUR5 min
Eggs (dozen)$4.353.78 EUR14 min
Apples (1 kg)$3.192.77 EUR11 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$2.121.84 EUR7 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.552.2 EUR9 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$27.1023.4 EUR1.5 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$13.9012 EUR46 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$13.5412.5 EUR45 min
Beer (330ml)$1.901.76 EUR6 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$29.3927.14 EUR1.6 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$2.572.37 EUR9 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.20—<1 min
A day's healthy diet$3.282.9 EUR11 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 France compares

Relative to the rest of the game, France is most expensive for beer, where it ranks 3rd out of 42 countries at $1.90, against a global median of $1.00.

It is relatively cheapest for mobile data at $0.20, which is 45th of 49, only 4 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 1.6 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 France: 20% TVA. Ordinary groceries: 5.5% on most foodstuffs. Where these come from.

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France prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in France?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for France, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.20, Milk $1.37, Coca-Cola $1.68. 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 France?
France 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 France list?
Of the 16 items priced for France, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.20 and the most expensive is Spirits at $29.39. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's France 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, Burger Parity, 2026, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, 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 France.