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Prices in Spain 🇪🇸

In Spain, mobile data costs $0.48, beer costs $0.63 and milk costs $1.22. 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.

Spain is cheaper than the northern eurozone across the board despite sharing the currency, which is a clean illustration of why a single exchange rate cannot equalise prices. Fresh produce is especially cheap, since Spain is one of Europe's main growers. Spanish VAT reinforces the pattern with an unusually generous food regime: 10% on food generally, but a super-reduced 4% on staples including bread, milk and eggs. Comparing Spain with Ireland or Portugal, which share the currency and charge 23% standard, is the most direct way this table shows what national tax policy does to prices inside a single monetary union.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR35 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$1.371.3 EUR7 min
Cappuccino$2.462.14 EUR12 min
Milk (1 litre)$1.221.06 EUR6 min
Eggs (dozen)$3.453 EUR17 min
Apples (1 kg)$2.572.23 EUR13 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$1.741.51 EUR9 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.101.81 EUR11 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$29.4025.4 EUR2.4 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$10.108.7 EUR51 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$6.065.6 EUR30 min
Beer (330ml)$0.630.58 EUR3 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$9.628.89 EUR48 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$3.793.5 EUR19 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.48—2 min
A day's healthy diet$2.882.55 EUR14 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 Spain compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Spain is most expensive for vape liquid, where it ranks 3rd out of 20 countries at $3.79, against a global median of $2.88.

It is relatively cheapest for beer at $0.63, which is 34th of 42, only 8 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 2.4 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 Spain: 21% IVA. Ordinary groceries: 10% on food, 4% on staples like bread, milk and eggs. Where these come from.

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Spain prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Spain?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for Spain, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.48, Beer $0.63, Milk $1.22. 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 Spain?
Spain 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 Spain list?
Of the 16 items priced for Spain, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.48 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $29.40. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Spain 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 Spain.