Prices in Turkey 🇹🇷
What 7 everyday items cost in Turkey, shown in US dollars, in TRY, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Turkey has run high inflation for several years, so lira prices climb quickly while the currency falls against the dollar. The two roughly offset, which keeps Turkish dollar prices low but makes any single reading unusually time-sensitive.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.90 | 255 TRY | 89 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.95 | 35 TRY | 14 min |
| Cappuccino | $3.60 | 171.17 TRY | 54 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.02 | 48.5 TRY | 15 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $2.13 | 101.28 TRY | 32 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.80 | 85.59 TRY | 27 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.30 | 61.81 TRY | 20 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 Turkey compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Turkey is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 15th out of 33 countries at $5.90 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for milk at $1.02, which is 30th of 32 — only 2 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 89 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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