Prices in Germany 🇩🇪
What 7 everyday items cost in Germany, shown in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone earning 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.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 19 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.56 | 1.49 EUR | 4 min |
| Cappuccino | $4.16 | 3.61 EUR | 11 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.35 | 1.17 EUR | 4 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $3.91 | 3.4 EUR | 11 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $3.31 | 2.87 EUR | 9 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.10 | 1.82 EUR | 6 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. 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 big mac, where it ranks 5th out of 33 countries at $7.05 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for milk at $1.35, which is 21st of 32 — only 11 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 19 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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