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Prices in Netherlands 🇳🇱

In Netherlands, beer costs $0.93, milk costs $1.35 and coca-cola costs $1.46. 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.

The Netherlands is a major agricultural exporter despite its size, and its dairy and produce prices reflect that. Fuel is among the most expensive in the game, with Dutch excise duties near the top of the EU range. Food sits at 9% against a 21% standard rate, a middling European carve-out rather than a generous one. The Dutch pattern is the mirror image of Germany's next door: comparable food prices, but a noticeably heavier hand on fuel, which is a policy choice rather than a difference in the cost of importing petrol into two adjacent North Sea ports.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR21 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$1.461.39 EUR4 min
Cappuccino$4.293.73 EUR13 min
Milk (1 litre)$1.351.17 EUR4 min
Eggs (dozen)$4.924.27 EUR15 min
Apples (1 kg)$2.752.39 EUR8 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$2.432.11 EUR7 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.702.33 EUR8 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$26.6023 EUR80 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)$13.3011.5 EUR40 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$13.5412.5 EUR41 min
Beer (330ml)$0.930.86 EUR3 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$22.0320.35 EUR66 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$3.222.98 EUR10 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$1.61—5 min
A day's healthy diet$3.012.66 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 Netherlands compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Netherlands is most expensive for gasoline, where it ranks 2nd out of 32 countries at $2.43, against a global median of $1.38.

It is relatively cheapest for beer at $0.93, which is 26th of 42, only 16 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 80 minutes 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 Netherlands: 21% BTW. Ordinary groceries: 9% on food. Where these come from.

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Netherlands comes up in the daily puzzle roughly once every 49 days, paired with a different item each time. Play today's puzzle or browse the archive of past rounds.

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Netherlands prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Netherlands?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for Netherlands, each from a named source. Beer $0.93, Milk $1.35, Coca-Cola $1.46. 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 Netherlands?
Netherlands 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 Netherlands list?
Of the 16 items priced for Netherlands, the cheapest is Beer at $0.93 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $26.60. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Netherlands 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 Netherlands.