The average price of a pint in the UK and around the world

What is the average cost of a pint?

The average cost of a pint in the UK is £5.44.
The average cost of a pint in London is £6.50, the most expensive city in the UK.
The average cost of a pint in major cities around the world is £2.76.

We have compiled data on the average prices of beer in the most populated cities around the world. The analysis looks at 166 countries so you can find out where your city ranks and where you can save on pints. Read on to find out where the UK sits globally and, if you’re looking to save up some beer money, you might also consider a switching offer for some extra cash.

How much is a pint of beer around the world?

The cost of a pint of beer in 2025 ranges from £0.68 in Madagascar all the way up to £9.95 in Doha, Qatar. The world average cost for a pint from the 155 major cities in countries around the world analysed is £2.76 in 2025, similar to last year’s world average of £2.75.

London in the UK is still pricier than most of the list, with the average cost of £6.50 for a pint in the UK’s most populated city, coming in as the 10th most expensive in countries around the world. London charges more than double the world average.

The 5 cities with the most expensive beer

1. Doha, Qatar £9.95
2. Dubai, United Arab Emirates £9.46
3. Muscat, Oman £8.76
4. Reykjavik, Iceland £8.41
5. Oslo, Norway £7.97

The 5 cities with the cheapest beer

1. Antananarivoseru, Madagascar £0.68
2. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia £0.70
3. Lome, Togo £0.71
4. Vientiane, Laos £0.74
5. Lagos, Nigeria £0.74

Country	City	Average price of a pint
Qatar	Doha	£9.95
UAE	Dubai	£9.46
Oman	Muscat	£8.76
Iceland	Reykjavik	£8.41
Norway	Oslo	£7.97
Bahrain	Manama	£7.53
Greenland	Nuuk	£7.50
US	New York	£7.28
Switzerland	Zürich	£7.05
Finland	Helsinki	£6.84
United Kingdom	London	£6.50
Singapore	Singapore	£6.49
Denmark	Copenhagen	£6.35
Seychelles	Victoria	£6.19
Monaco	Monte Carlo	£6.11
France	Paris	£5.92
Ireland	Dublin	£5.92
Australia	Sydney	£5.73
Sweden	Stockholm	£5.65
New Zealand	Auckland	£5.55
Netherlands	Amsterdam	£5.50
Jordan	Amman	£5.28
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	£5.13
Canada	Toronto	£4.98
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	£4.94
Djibouti	Djibouti	£4.87
Bahamas	Nassau	£4.49
Greece	Athens	£4.31
Turkey	Istanbul	£4.17
Italy	Rome	£4.15
Latvia	Riga	£4.15
Austria	Vienna	£4.12
Belgium	Brussels	£4.04
Estonia	Tallinn	£3.93
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	£3.83
Lithuania	Vilnius	£3.79
Poland	Warsaw	£3.64
Vanuatu	Port Vila	£3.50
Germany	Berlin	£3.48
French Guiana	Cayenne	£3.46
Spain	Madrid	£3.45
Morocco	Casablanca	£3.39
Cyprus	Nicosia	£3.34
San Marino	San Marino	£3.32
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	£3.32
Uruguay	Montevideo	£3.28
Panama	Panama City	£3.21
Iraq	Baghdad	£3.17
Malta	Valetta	£3.11
Rep. of the Congo	Brazzaville	£3.05
Japan	Tokyo	£2.98
Solomon Islands	Honiara	£2.90
Chile	Santiago	£2.88
South korea	Seoul	£2.80
Slovenia	Ljubljana	£2.72
Russia	Moscow	£2.68
East Timor	Dili	£2.66
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	£2.64
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	£2.62
Thailand	Bangkok	£2.58
Serbia	Belgrade	£2.49
Nepal	Kathmandu	£2.48
Lebanon	Beirut	£2.43
Argentina	Buenos Aires	£2.43
Albania	Tirana	£2.40
Mauritius	Port Louis	£2.40
Indonesia	Jakarta	£2.40
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	£2.38
India	Mumbai	£2.35
Costa Rica	San José	£2.33
Guinea	Conakry	£2.33
Guatemala	Guatemala City	£2.32
Mexico	Mexico City	£2.28
Montenegro	Podgorica	£2.28
Croatia	Zagreb	£2.27
Armenia	Yerevan	£2.23
Fiji	Suva	£2.22
Romania	Bucharest	£2.19
Central african republic	Bangui	£2.16
Jamaica	Kingston	£2.16
Barbados	Bridgetown	£2.11
Peru	Lima	£2.07
Portugal	Lisbon	£2.07
Equatorial Guinea	Bata	£2.04
Hungary	Budapest	£2.02
Sri lanka	Colombo	£1.99
Senegal	Dakar	£1.98
Bulgaria	Sofia	£1.98
Kenya	Nairobi	£1.98
Syria	Damascus	£1.98
Algeria	Algiers	£1.98
Bolivia	La Paz	£1.96
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	£1.95
Kazakhstan	Almaty	£1.94
Slovakia	Bratislava	£1.92
Cuba	Havana	£1.91
Czechia	Prague	£1.86
South Africa	Johannesburg	£1.84
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	£1.83
Botswana	Gaborone	£1.81
The Gambia	Banjul	£1.80
Philippines	Manila	£1.80
El Salvador	San Salvador	£1.78
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	£1.77
Georgia	Tbilisi	£1.75
Ecuador	Guayaquil	£1.72
Liberia	Monrovia	£1.71
Brazil	São Paulo	£1.71
Saint Lucia	Castries	£1.70
Chad	N'Djamena	£1.69
Belize	Belize City	£1.69
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	£1.69
North Macedonia	Skopje	£1.69
Guyana	Georgetown	£1.67
Bhutan	Thimphu	£1.63
Kosovo	Pristina	£1.63
Tunisia	Tunis	£1.62
Zimbabwe	Harare	£1.60
Mali	Bamako	£1.60
Suriname	Paramaribo	£1.58
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	£1.58
Burundi	Bujumbura	£1.55
Cape Verde	Praia	£1.55
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	£1.53
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	£1.49
Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City	£1.48
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	£1.44
Moldova	Chişinău	£1.43
Belarus	Minsk	£1.42
Azerbaijan	Baku	£1.40
DRC	Kinshasa	£1.34
Ukraine	Kiev	£1.31
Namibia	Windhoek	£1.29
Venezuela	Caracas	£1.26
Guinea Bissau	Bissau	£1.25
Gabon	Libreville	£1.23
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	£1.21
China	Shanghai	£1.19
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	£1.19
Eritrea	Asmara	£1.18
Paraguay	Asuncion	£1.18
Niger	Niamey	£1.13
Egypt	Cairo	£1.11
Cameroon	Douala	£1.11
Zambia	Lusaka	£1.09
Cote d'Ivoire	Abidjan	£1.08
Benin	Cotonou	£1.08
Ghana	Accra	£1.05
Nicaragua	Managua	£1.04
Uganda	Kampala	£1.01
Colombia	Bogotá	£1.01
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	£1.00
Lesotho	Maseru	£0.97
Angola	Luanda	£0.94
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	£0.93
Mozambique	Maputo	£0.93
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	£0.90
Sierra Leone	Freetown	£0.86
Malawi	Lilongwe	£0.84
Myanmar (Burma)	Yangon	£0.76
Rwanda	Kigali	£0.74
Nigeria	Lagos	£0.74
Laos	Vientiane	£0.74
Togo	Lome	£0.71
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	£0.70
Madagascar	Antananarivo	£0.68

Country	City	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Qatar	Doha	£10.86	£9.98	£11.37	£10.47	£9.99
UAE	Dubai	£8.70	£9.94	£10.82	£9.93	£9.43
Bahrain	Manama	£7.41	£5.89	£7.53	£6.20	£8.84
Iceland	Reykjavik	£6.93	£6.87	£7.15	£7.81	£8.29
Norway	Oslo	£7.57	£7.90	£8.13	£7.13	£8.05
Oman	Muscat	£6.23	£7.97	£9.80	£8.68	£7.68
United States	New York		£5.59	£6.98	£6.22	£7.22
Finland	Helsinki	£5.42	£5.22	£5.68	£6.33	£6.94
United Kingdom	London	£5.19	£5.50	£5.99	£5.90	£6.75
France	Paris	£5.42	£5.74	£5.78	£5.86	£6.50
Singapore	Singapore	£5.76	£5.44	£6.09	£5.98	£6.46
Switzerland	Zürich	£5.92	£5.47	£6.08	£6.54	£6.46
Jordan	Amman	£5.64	£4.89	£6.56	£5.83	£6.34
Denmark	Copenhagen	£5.46	£5.56	£5.58	£6.06	£6.12
Israel	Jerusalem	£7.00	£6.16	£6.86	£6.00	£6.00
Ireland	Dublin	£4.52	£4.93	£5.36	£5.51	£5.80
Seychelles	Victoria	£3.97	£5.06	£6.15	£5.56	£5.62
Australia	Sydney	£4.44	£4.34	£4.88	£5.01	£5.54
New Zealand	Auckland	£4.65	£6.10	£5.34	£5.76	£5.54
Sweden	Stockholm	£5.69	£5.75	£5.58	£5.38	£5.49
Netherlands	Amsterdam	£4.07	£4.14	£4.27	£4.34	£5.32
Canada	Toronto	£3.54	£4.09	£4.96	£4.58	£5.27
Bangladesh	Dhaka	£3.28	£4.30	£5.51	£4.47	£4.84
Djibouti	Djibouti	£4.50	£3.88	£4.62	£4.51	£4.54
Bhutan	Thimphu	£2.12	£1.96	£2.33	£1.00	£4.53
Greece	Athens	£3.62	£3.66	£3.67	£3.82	£4.43
Samoa	Apia	£1.49	£1.41	£1.48	£2.95	£4.30
Belgium	Brussels	£3.62	£3.34	£3.83	£4.07	£4.28
Italy	Rome	£4.07	£4.29	£4.28	£4.30	£4.25
Bahamas	Nassau	£3.40	£3.68	£4.28	£3.97	£4.08
Estonia	Tallinn	£3.62	£3.43	£3.81	£3.82	£4.05
Latvia	Riga	£2.17	£2.76	£3.12	£3.82	£4.04
Austria	Vienna	£3.57	£3.25	£3.54	£3.48	£4.03
Germany	Berlin	£3.16	£3.33	£3.24	£3.79	£3.86
Turkey	Istanbul	£1.84	£1.75	£2.24	£2.93	£3.86
Lithuania	Vilnius	£2.71	£2.90	£3.33	£3.50	£3.69
Uruguay	Montevideo	£1.89	£2.42	£3.17	£3.19	£3.56
Vanuatu	Port Vila	£2.60	£2.60	£3.32	£3.27	£3.52
Cyprus	Nicosia	£2.71	£3.24	£3.24	£3.25	£3.45
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	£2.30	£3.10	£3.72	£3.96	£3.33
Morocco	Casablanca	£2.50	£2.94	£2.99	£2.90	£3.32
French Guiana	Cayenne	£2.26	£1.69	£1.72	£3.31	£3.31
Spain	Madrid	£2.26	£3.11	£3.62	£3.09	£3.17
Solomon Islands	Honiara	£3.38	£3.15	£4.12	£3.75	£3.11
Rep. of the Congo	Brazzaville			£1.61	£1.95	£3.06
Poland	Warsaw	£1.63	£2.15	£2.27	£2.65	£3.02
South korea	Seoul	£2.62	£2.68	£2.51	£2.93	£2.98
Russia	Moscow	£2.51	£2.76	£3.58	£2.81	£2.96
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	£2.80	£3.38	£3.01	£3.51	£2.91
Mauritania	Nouakchott	£2.74	£3.04	£3.63	£3.24	£2.91
India	Mumbai	£1.53	£2.22	£2.34	£2.29	£2.86
Japan	Tokyo	£3.37	£3.34	£3.55	£3.09	£2.86
Malta	Birkirkara			£1.94	£2.15	£2.79
East Timor	Dili	£2.21	£2.17	£3.06	£2.79	£2.75
Slovenia	Ljubljana	£2.26	£2.44	£2.55	£2.55	£2.69
Costa Rica	San José			£2.25	£2.15	£2.67
Armenia	Yerevan	£1.00	£1.16	£1.92	£2.12	£2.66
Chile	Santiago	£2.44	£2.44	£2.88	£2.97	£2.66
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	£1.81	£2.04	£1.99	£2.18	£2.63
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	£2.40	£1.47	£1.42	£2.37	£2.62
Iraq	Baghdad	£1.60	£1.73	£2.04	£2.10	£2.53
Nepal	Kathmandu	£1.99	£2.36	£2.83	£2.58	£2.51
Mauritius	Port Louis	£1.50	£2.15	£2.57	£2.62	£2.50
Maldives	Male	£2.51	£2.23	£5.50	£2.50	£2.47
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	£1.85	£2.03	£2.67	£2.47	£2.46
Albania	Tirana	£1.09	£1.77	£1.78	£2.07	£2.40
Croatia	Zagreb	£1.91	£1.82	£1.96	£2.25	£2.39
Mexico	Mexico City	£1.07	£1.70	£2.28	£2.35	£2.39
Panama	Panama City	£1.61	£2.31	£2.52	£2.11	£2.35
Guatemala	Guatemala City	£2.08	£1.90	£1.87	£1.90	£2.29
Guinea	Conakry	£4.00	£2.88	£2.44	£2.27	£2.29
Indonesia	Jakarta	£1.98	£2.26	£2.75	£1.98	£2.28
Romania	Bucharest	£1.12	£1.48	£2.87	£1.87	£2.28
Portugal	Lisbon	£1.81	£1.63	£1.98	£1.83	£2.22
Lebanon	Beirut	£2.80	£7.37	£5.63	£7.51	£2.21
Serbia	Belgrade	£1.23	£1.53	£1.63	£1.83	£2.19
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	£1.65	£1.61	£2.11	£2.87	£2.18
Senegal	Dakar	£1.38	£1.57	£2.24	£2.17	£2.18
Algeria	Algiers	£1.24	£2.17	£2.52	£2.78	£2.14
Argentina	Buenos Aires	£1.15	£1.38	£2.86	£1.61	£2.13
Cuba	Havana	£1.60	£1.47	£2.82	£2.61	£2.12
Barbados	Bridgetown	£1.60	£2.20	£2.63	£2.19	£2.10
Equatorial Guinea	Bata	£1.38	£1.85	£1.88	£1.94	£2.10
Central african republic	Bangui	£1.05	£1.87	£1.90	£1.90	£2.06
Jamaica	Kingston	£1.51	£1.46	£2.16	£1.89	£2.06
Montenegro	Podgorica	£1.81	£1.41	£1.57	£1.82	£2.05
Peru	Lima	£1.60	£1.40	£1.77	£1.87	£2.01
Bolivia	La Paz	£1.61	£1.76	£2.01	£1.82	£1.98
Slovakia	Bratislava	£1.36	£1.59	£1.61	£1.76	£1.92
Belize	Belize City	£1.60	£1.62	£2.11	£1.78	£1.90
Sri lanka	Colombo	£1.29	£1.38	£1.01	£2.16	£1.89
Angola	Luanda	£1.43	£2.37	£1.96	£1.15	£1.88
Kazakhstan	Almaty	£1.00	£1.18	£1.76	£2.29	£1.86
Hungary	Budapest	£1.16	£1.28	£1.51	£1.84	£1.84
Pakistan	Karachi	£1.60	£1.90	£1.97	£2.45	£1.84
Czech Rep.	Prague	£1.19	£1.44	£1.59	£1.85	£1.83
Georgia	Tbilisi	£0.78	£1.19	£2.70	£1.87	£1.83
Suriname	Paramaribo	£1.18	£1.19	£1.19	£1.68	£1.80
Chad	N'Djamena	£4.48	£3.37	£1.82	£1.83	£1.79
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	£1.49	£1.75	£2.25	£2.08	£1.79
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	£1.16	£1.41	£1.64	£1.66	£1.77
Brazil	São Paulo	£1.76	£1.36	£1.70	£1.93	£1.77
Guyana	Georgetown	£2.30	£1.73	£1.98	£1.80	£1.77
Thailand	Bangkok	£1.81	£1.78	£2.15	£1.89	£1.73
El Salvador	San Salvador	£1.00	£1.24	£1.55	£1.43	£1.72
Mali	Bamako	£1.61	£1.37	£1.30	£1.45	£1.72
Bulgaria	Sofia	£1.02	£1.37	£1.57	£1.70	£1.71
South africa	Johannesburg	£1.39	£1.65	£1.57	£1.46	£1.68
Botswana	Gaborone	£1.18	£1.39	£1.41	£1.26	£1.65
Kenya	Nairobi	£1.88	£1.62	£1.71	£1.51	£1.63
Kosovo	Pristina	£1.36	£1.29	£1.32	£1.44	£1.62
Saint Lucia	Castries	£1.49	£1.34	£1.43	£1.60	£1.62
Zimbabwe	Harare	£1.32	£1.46	£2.12	£1.59	£1.59
Liberia	Monrovia	£2.01	£1.54	£1.53	£1.64	£1.58
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre			£2.48	£1.58	£1.58
Cape Verde	Praia	£2.71	£1.13	£1.90	£1.55	£1.55
Egypt	Cairo	£1.48	£1.43	£2.79	£1.69	£1.54
Tunisia	Tunis	£1.12	£1.46	£1.89	£1.60	£1.47
China	Shanghai	£3.18	£2.80	£2.04	£1.41	£1.46
Ecuador	Guayaquil	£1.20	£1.27	£1.12	£1.34	£1.46
DRC	Kinshasa	£1.20	£1.41	£1.61	£1.34	£1.44
Moldova	Chişinău	£0.93	£1.06	£1.45	£1.36	£1.42
Ukraine	Kiev	£0.75	£1.20	£1.23	£1.09	£1.39
Belarus	Minsk	£1.50	£1.41	£2.48	£1.69	£1.33
Cameroon	Douala	£0.93	£1.17	£1.46	£1.33	£1.33
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	£1.02	£0.85	£0.94	£1.16	£1.31
Guinea Bissau	Bissau	£0.75	£1.01	£1.31	£1.03	£1.29
Gabon	Libreville	£0.90	£1.17	£1.72	£1.26	£1.26
Paraguay	Asuncion	£0.77	£1.03	£1.40	£1.33	£1.26
Venezuela	Caracas	£0.32	£1.11	£1.34	£1.21	£1.26
Niger	Niamey	£0.62	£1.62	£1.31	£1.32	£1.24
Azerbaijan	Baku	£0.76	£0.85	£1.40	£1.24	£1.22
Namibia	Windhoek	£1.04	£1.24	£1.46	£1.05	£1.19
Burundi	Bujumbura			£0.84	£0.46	£1.18
Eritrea	Asmara	£1.40	£1.25	£1.67	£1.17	£1.18
Nicaragua	Managua	£1.02	£0.89	£1.09	£1.27	£1.15
Philippines	Manila	£0.96	£1.14	£1.15	£1.07	£1.15
Cote d'Ivoire	Abidjan			£1.41	£1.22	£1.14
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	£0.64	£0.80	£1.32	£0.99	£1.00
Ghana	Accra	£0.83	£0.95	£1.24	£0.86	£1.00
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	£0.75	£1.01	£1.44	£1.06	£0.98
Benin	Cotonou	£0.86	£0.95	£1.14	£0.97	£0.97
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	£0.78	£0.78	£1.21	£0.96	£0.97
Uganda	Kampala	£0.75	£0.80	£0.99	£0.89	£0.96
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	£0.80	£0.75	£0.67	£0.85	£0.96
Colombia	Bogotá	£0.76	£0.82	£0.76	£0.81	£0.95
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	£1.45	£0.91	£0.92	£0.93	£0.93
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	£0.76	£0.60	£0.94	£0.96	£0.91
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	£0.87	£0.86	£1.10	£1.01	£0.90
Mozambique	Maputo	£0.83	£1.11	£1.27	£1.07	£0.89
Myanmar (Burma)	Yangon	£0.92	£0.72	£0.75	£0.84	£0.87
Sierra Leone	Freetown	£0.41	£0.65	£0.74	£0.75	£0.86
Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City	£0.69	£0.74	£0.93	£0.84	£0.84
Rwanda	Kigali	£1.05	£0.78	£0.92	£0.74	£0.81
Madagascar	Antananarivo	£0.62	£0.67	£0.76	£0.80	£0.75
Togo	Lome	£0.83	£0.75	£0.79	£0.73	£0.73
Nigeria	Lagos	£0.62	£0.68	£1.03	£0.87	£0.73
Laos	Vientiane	£1.02	£0.87	£0.91	£0.79	£0.67
Zambia	Lusaka	£0.57	£0.72	£0.94	£0.79	£0.67
Malawi	Lilongwe	£0.87	£0.76	£0.77	£0.74	£0.65
Lesotho	Maseru	£0.93	£0.75	£0.89	£0.62	£0.63
Country	City	Average price of a pint
Qatar	Doha	£9.95
UAE	Dubai	£9.46

What is the average price of a pint in the UK?

The average cost of a pint in the UK in 2025 is £5.44. This has increased by 5% from an average of £5.17 in 2024.

The cheapest places to get a pint (out of the 57 cities analysed) is Dunfermline in Scotland. A beer here will cost you £3.40, which is £2.04 less than the UK average of £5.44.

Following Dunfermline, Kingston Upon Hull and Dundee are the second and third cheapest cities to buy a beer. Compared to the £3.40 for Dunfermline, Kingston Upon Hull charges £3.74 and Dundee’s average is £3.94.

On the pricier side, Brighton is the second most expensive city to buy a beer, charging £6 on average. Oxford is the third most expensive city, with an average pint price of £5.97.

How much is a pint in London?

A pint of beer will cost you £6.50 on average in London – the UK’s most expensive city to grab a drink. This is up 10% from an average price of £5.90 in 2023. A London pint is over £1 more than the UK average and £3.10 more than the UK’s cheapest city.

The 5 UK cities with the most expensive beer

1. London £6.50
2. Brighton £6.00
3. Oxford £5.93
4. Bristol £5.85
5. Belfast £5.76

The 5 UK cities with the cheapest beer

1. Dunfermline £3.40
2. Hull £3.74
3. Dundee £3.94
4. Carlisle £4.00
5. Derry £4.00

City	Average price of a pint
London	£6.50
Brighton & Hove	£6.00
Oxford	£5.97
Bristol	£5.85
Belfast	£5.76
Bath	£5.70
Edinburgh	£5.60
Winchester	£5.50
Chelmsford	£5.38
Liverpool	£5.35
Exeter	£5.21
Cambridge	£5.19
Norwich	£5.05
Birmingham	£5.04
Chester	£5.00
Truro	£5.00
Bangor	£5.00
Newport	£5.00
Canterbury	£4.97
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	£4.96
Sunderland	£4.95
Stirling	£4.95
Glasgow	£4.94
York	£4.90
Plymouth	£4.85
Southampton	£4.77
Manchester	£4.76
Chichester	£4.75
Cardiff	£4.74
Lincoln	£4.70
Leeds	£4.64
Nottingham	£4.59
Peterborough	£4.51
Colchester	£4.50
Durham	£4.50
Wolverhampton	£4.50
Portsmouth	£4.49
Inverness	£4.49
Swansea	£4.43
Sheffield	£4.37
Leicester	£4.29
Coventry	£4.28
Doncaster	£4.25
Aberdeen	£4.21
Bradford	£4.20
Lancaster	£4.20
Southend-on-Sea	£4.19
Stoke on Trent	£4.17
Perth	£4.05
Milton Keynes	£4.00
Wrexham	£4.00
Worcester	£4.00
Carlisle	£4.00
Derry	£4.00
Dundee	£3.94
Kingston-upon-Hull	£3.74
Dunfermline	£3.40

City	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
London	£5.19	£5.50	£5.99	£5.90	£6.75
Oxford	£4.49	£4.25	£4.70	£4.75	£5.69
Belfast	£4.19	£4.48	£4.84	£5.08	£5.48
Brighton and Hove	£5.02	£4.83	£5.02	£5.02	£5.47
Bristol	£4.41	£4.51	£4.42	£4.77	£5.31
Exeter	£4.32	£4.04	£4.00	£4.48	£5.31
Liverpool	£3.84	£3.99	£4.48	£4.34	£5.18
Edinburgh	£4.74	£4.55	£4.80	£5.05	£5.17
Cambridge	£4.91	£4.50	£4.75	£4.69	£4.94
Poole	£3.72	£3.92	£4.08	£4.18	£4.94
York	£4.19	£4.29	£4.85	£5.10	£4.85
Manchester	£3.94	£3.99	£4.11	£4.69	£4.82
Aberystwyth	£3.87	£3.69	£3.70	£4.65	£4.70
Glasgow	£4.31	£3.82	£4.12	£4.18	£4.62
Nottingham	£4.27	£4.08	£4.28	£4.25	£4.60
Birmingham	£4.34	£4.05	£4.02	£4.02	£4.56
Leicester	£3.62	£3.52	£3.63	£4.41	£4.54
Milton Keynes			£4.60	£4.82	£4.50
Leeds	£3.72	£3.77	£3.79	£4.22	£4.49
Newcastle upon Tyne	£4.27	£4.17	£3.88	£4.21	£4.49
Portsmouth	£4.22	£3.92	£4.30	£4.49	£4.49
Norwich	£3.95	£4.15	£5.00	£4.61	£4.48
Reading	£4.10	£3.96	£3.99	£3.99	£4.40
Southampton	£4.11	£4.15	£4.34	£4.34	£4.34
Sheffield	£3.72	£3.69	£4.21	£4.21	£4.32
Peterborough	£3.56	£3.28	£3.50	£4.00	£4.26
Bournemouth			£4.00	£4.00	£4.25
Cardiff	£3.43	£3.46	£4.26	£3.96	£4.24
Aberdeen	£3.86	£3.48	£3.67	£3.43	£4.21
Ipswich	£4.12	£4.06	£4.00	£4.00	£4.21
Derby			£3.00	£3.00	£4.20
Inverness	£3.73	£3.72	£4.00	£3.94	£4.19
Plymouth	£3.74	£3.85	£3.84	£4.19	£4.14
Preston	£3.64	£3.32	£3.69	£3.64	£4.12
Stirling				£4.00	£4.00
Swansea	£3.12	£3.26	£3.65	£3.70	£3.98
Southend-on-Sea	£3.79	£3.98	£3.91	£3.78	£3.94
Coventry	£3.78	£3.74	£3.78	£3.78	£3.93
Dundee	£3.08	£3.29	£4.34	£3.84	£3.84
Stoke-on-Trent	£3.33	£3.33	£4.22	£3.56	£3.81
Perth	£3.14	£3.07	£3.46	£3.65	£3.78
Luton	£3.41	£3.58	£5.00	£3.77	£3.77
Sunderland	£3.30	£3.33	£3.75	£3.50	£3.75
Northampton	£3.82	£3.86	£3.74	£3.87	£3.74
Kingston upon Hull	£3.64	£3.32	£3.32	£3.32	£3.61
Gloucester	£3.71	£3.51	£3.50	£4.22	£3.35

Methodology

The numbers in this piece are based on data from cost-of-living sites Expatistan and Numbeo as of February 2025. The majority of values were averaged from the two sites. In the few cases when this was not possible, data from Numbeo or Expatistan was used alone. Countries or cities have been excluded where there is not enough reliable data or if alcohol restrictions apply.

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