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

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  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

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

The average cost of a pint in the UK in 2025 is now £5.50. This has increased by 6% from an average of £5.17 in 2024.

The cheapest places to get a pint (out of the 56 cities analysed) is Hull (also known as Kingston upon Hull) in the North of England. A beer here will cost you £3.68, which is £1.83 less than the UK average of £5.50.

Following Hull, Dundee in Scotland is the second cheapest city to buy a beer, with an average price of £3.96. Wrexham and Newport in Wales and Bradford in the North of England all have an average pint price of £4.

On the pricier side, Brighton is the second most expensive city to buy a beer, charging £6.03 on average. Bath and Winchester are the next most expensive cities, with an average pint price of £6.

How much is a pint in London?

A pint of beer will cost you £6.83 on average in London – the UK’s most expensive city to grab a drink. This is up 16% from an average price of £5.90 in 2023. A London pint is £1.33 more than the UK average and £3.15 more than the UK’s cheapest city.

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  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

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