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Prices in Portugal 🇵🇹

In Portugal, beer costs $0.86, milk costs $1.10 and coca-cola costs $1.21. 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.

Portugal has eurozone prices on a lower wage base, so its work-time figures are among the least favourable in Western Europe. Café prices are a notable exception and remain some of the cheapest in the eurozone. Essential food is charged at 6% against a 23% standard rate, the same headline rate as Ireland and Poland, applied to a very different income level. That combination is what makes Portugal the country in this table where the gap between the dollar column and the work-time column is most worth reading carefully: the prices are Western European and the wages are not.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR47 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$1.211.15 EUR8 min
Cappuccino$2.161.88 EUR14 min
Milk (1 litre)$1.100.96 EUR7 min
Eggs (dozen)$3.483.02 EUR23 min
Apples (1 kg)$2.281.98 EUR15 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$2.101.82 EUR14 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.352.03 EUR16 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$25.2021.8 EUR2.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$15.3013.2 EUR1.7 h
Cigarettes (20-pack)$5.525.1 EUR37 min
Beer (330ml)$0.860.79 EUR6 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$18.2616.87 EUR2.0 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$3.112.88 EUR21 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$1.79—12 min
A day's healthy diet$2.712.4 EUR18 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 Portugal compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Portugal is most expensive for natural gas (100 kWh), where it ranks 5th out of 31 countries at $15.30, against a global median of $9.80.

It is relatively cheapest for beer at $0.86, which is 27th of 42, 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 2.8 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 Portugal: 23% IVA. Ordinary groceries: 6% on essential food. Where these come from.

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Portugal prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Portugal?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for Portugal, each from a named source. Beer $0.86, Milk $1.10, Coca-Cola $1.21. 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 Portugal?
Portugal 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 Portugal list?
Of the 16 items priced for Portugal, the cheapest is Beer at $0.86 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $25.20. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Portugal 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 Portugal.