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Prices in Guatemala 🇬🇹

In Guatemala, beer costs $0.61, mobile data costs $1.17 and gasoline costs $1.29. That is 9 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in GTQ, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Guatemala has one of the lowest consumption taxes in Latin America, a 12% IVA, and one of the lowest tax takes in the region overall, so the state's wedge in a price is thin. The quetzal has been unusually stable against the dollar for years, supported by large inflows of remittances from the United States, which makes the conversion here more trustworthy than in most of its neighbours. Fuel is imported and mostly passed through at world prices. The ILO wage covers employees, and a large share of Guatemalans work informally outside that count, so the work-time column flatters local purchasing power.

What things cost

ItemUSDWork time
Big Mac$4.3033 GTQ84 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)$1.299.8 GTQ25 min
Diesel (1 litre)$1.4811.26 GTQ29 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$32.90250.8 GTQ10.7 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$2.5820 GTQ50 min
Beer (330ml)$0.614.71 GTQ12 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$6.4650 GTQ2.1 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)no data
Mobile data (1 GB)$1.1723 min
A day's healthy diet$2.3117.76 GTQ45 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 Guatemala compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Guatemala is most expensive for electricity (100 kWh), where it ranks 9th out of 60 countries at $32.90, against a global median of $20.20.

It is relatively cheapest for cigarettes at $2.58, which is 46th of 61, only 15 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 10.7 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 Guatemala: 12% IVA. Where these come from.

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Guatemala prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Guatemala?
Pricele publishes 9 everyday prices for Guatemala, each from a named source. Beer $0.61, Mobile data $1.17, Gasoline $1.29. 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 Guatemala?
Guatemala uses the GTQ. 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 Guatemala list?
Of the 9 items priced for Guatemala, the cheapest is Beer at $0.61 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $32.90. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Guatemala 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, 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), 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 Guatemala.