Prices in Spain 🇪🇸
What 7 everyday items cost in Spain, shown in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone earning 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 — Spain is one of Europe's main growers.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 35 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.37 | 1.3 EUR | 7 min |
| Cappuccino | $2.46 | 2.14 EUR | 12 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.22 | 1.06 EUR | 6 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $3.45 | 3 EUR | 17 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.57 | 2.23 EUR | 13 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.74 | 1.51 EUR | 9 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. 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 big mac, where it ranks 6th out of 33 countries at $7.05 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for cappuccino at $2.46, which is 23rd of 32 — only 9 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 35 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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