Prices in Portugal 🇵🇹
What 7 everyday items cost in Portugal, shown in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Portugal has eurozone prices on a lower wage base, so its work-time figures are among the least favourable in Western Europe. Café prices are a notable exception and remain some of the cheapest in the eurozone.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 47 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.21 | 1.15 EUR | 8 min |
| Cappuccino | $2.16 | 1.88 EUR | 14 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.10 | 0.96 EUR | 7 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $3.48 | 3.02 EUR | 23 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.28 | 1.98 EUR | 15 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.10 | 1.82 EUR | 14 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 Portugal compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Portugal is most expensive for gasoline, where it ranks 7th out of 32 countries at $2.10 — against a global median of $1.38.
It is relatively cheapest for milk at $1.10, which is 26th of 32 — only 6 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 47 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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