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Prices in Germany 🇩🇪

In Germany, milk costs $1.35, coca-cola costs $1.56 and beer costs $1.62. 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.

Germany has some of the cheapest groceries in Western Europe, largely because of intense competition between discount chains like Aldi and Lidl. Fuel goes the other way: energy taxes and levies make up roughly half the pump price. The VAT structure sharpens both effects: 19% standard but 7% on most food, so the German state takes a far smaller cut of a grocery basket than of a tank of petrol. Germany is the clearest illustration in the table of why food and fuel prices in the same country can sit at opposite ends of the European range.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR19 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$1.561.49 EUR4 min
Cappuccino$4.163.61 EUR11 min
Milk (1 litre)$1.351.17 EUR4 min
Eggs (dozen)$3.913.4 EUR11 min
Apples (1 kg)$3.312.87 EUR9 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$2.101.82 EUR6 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.632.27 EUR7 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$40.0034.6 EUR1.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$11.509.9 EUR31 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$9.428.7 EUR26 min
Beer (330ml)$1.621.5 EUR4 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$11.6010.71 EUR32 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$3.783.5 EUR10 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$2.14—6 min
A day's healthy diet$3.443.04 EUR9 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 Germany compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Germany is most expensive for electricity (100 kWh), where it ranks 3rd out of 48 countries at $40.00, against a global median of $20.65.

It is relatively cheapest for spirits at $11.60, which is 23rd of 42, only 19 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 1.8 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 Germany: 19% VAT. Ordinary groceries: 7% on most food. Where these come from.

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Germany prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Germany?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for Germany, each from a named source. Milk $1.35, Coca-Cola $1.56, Beer $1.62. 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 Germany?
Germany 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 Germany list?
Of the 16 items priced for Germany, the cheapest is Milk at $1.35 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $40.00. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Germany 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 Germany.