Prices in Netherlands 🇳🇱
What 7 everyday items cost in Netherlands, shown in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
The Netherlands is a major agricultural exporter despite its size, and its dairy and produce prices reflect that. Fuel is among the most expensive in the game — Dutch excise duties are near the top of the EU range.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 21 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.46 | 1.39 EUR | 4 min |
| Cappuccino | $4.29 | 3.73 EUR | 13 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.35 | 1.17 EUR | 4 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $4.92 | 4.27 EUR | 15 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.75 | 2.39 EUR | 8 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.43 | 2.11 EUR | 7 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 Netherlands compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Netherlands is most expensive for gasoline, where it ranks 2nd out of 32 countries at $2.43 — against a global median of $1.38.
It is relatively cheapest for milk at $1.35, which is 22nd of 32 — only 10 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 21 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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Netherlands comes up in the daily puzzle roughly once every 33 days, paired with a different item each time. Play today's puzzle or browse the archive of past rounds.