Prices in Mexico 🇲🇽

In Mexico, beer costs $1.01, coca-cola costs $1.04 and gasoline costs $1.50. That is 15 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in MXN, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Mexico produces much of its own fresh food, keeping groceries cheap in dollar terms, but the peso has been comparatively strong in recent years, which lifts Mexican prices when converted. Fuel is taxed but has also been subject to periodic government caps. Food and medicines carry 0% IVA against a 16% standard rate, a true zero rate rather than an exemption, and one of the more far-reaching food carve-outs in the Americas. Between domestic production and a zero rate on groceries, the Mexican food column has very little in it beyond the cost of growing and moving the food itself.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$6.17	109 MXN	1.5 h
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	$1.04	18 MXN	16 min
Cappuccino	$3.76	65.19 MXN	56 min
Milk (1 litre)	$1.72	29.82 MXN	26 min
Eggs (dozen)	$2.62	45.43 MXN	39 min
Apples (1 kg)	$3.04	52.71 MXN	46 min
Gasoline (1 litre)	$1.50	26.01 MXN	23 min
Diesel (1 litre)	$1.57	26.86 MXN	24 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$12.20	208.9 MXN	3.0 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)	$3.60	62.1 MXN	54 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$4.28	79.98 MXN	64 min
Beer (330ml)	$1.01	18.92 MXN	15 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$4.09	76.33 MXN	61 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$2.03	—	30 min
A day's healthy diet	$2.57	49.51 MXN	39 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 Mexico compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Mexico is most expensive for milk, where it ranks 11th out of 32 countries at $1.72, against a global median of $1.54.

It is relatively cheapest for spirits at $4.09, which is 35th of 42, only 7 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 3.0 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 Mexico: 16% IVA. Ordinary groceries: 0% on food and medicines. Where these come from.

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Mexico prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Mexico?

Pricele publishes 15 everyday prices for Mexico, each from a named source. Beer $1.01, Coca-Cola $1.04, Gasoline $1.50. 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 Mexico?

Mexico uses the MXN. 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 Mexico list?

Of the 15 items priced for Mexico, the cheapest is Beer at $1.01 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $12.20. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Mexico prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, 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), 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 Mexico.