Prices in Italy 🇮🇹
What 7 everyday items cost in Italy, shown in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Italy runs close to the eurozone average on groceries but below it on café prices. An espresso taken standing at the bar is still priced at a level many Italians treat as near-fixed, and that convention holds cappuccino prices down relative to northern Europe.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 30 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.58 | 1.5 EUR | 7 min |
| Cappuccino | $2.03 | 1.76 EUR | 9 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.64 | 1.42 EUR | 7 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $4.26 | 3.7 EUR | 18 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.62 | 2.28 EUR | 11 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.06 | 1.79 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 Italy compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Italy is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 9th out of 33 countries at $7.05 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for cappuccino at $2.03, which is 28th of 32 — only 4 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 30 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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