Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world and also one of the healthiest. There is practically a culture around it, not only because of the different varieties, but also because its taste, one way or another, depends on the cultivation and roasting process. Not to mention the multitude of different machines or different ways to prepare the drink.

Moreover, apart from all this, there is a serious price difference between one coffee and another depending on where we drink it. If you’ve ever wondered how much a coffee will cost you when you go on holiday to another country, they’ve created a fantastic map by capturing the prices of an Americano, a latte and a cappuccino from many coffee shops in the capital. Each country gives us an idea of ​​how deep we will have to dig into our pockets.

It’s like water in the United States. The United States has an interesting coffee culture. If you’ve been there, you’ve probably seen that there are high-end coffee shops that also offer you typical American coffee at a ridiculous price almost anywhere. Hotels also have coffee machines prepared to serve well-diluted coffee. And the average price is not exaggerated.

While the average price of a glass in Washington DC is 3.53 euros, the situation does not change much in Ottawa; 2.91 euros. Frankly, as capital cities add up, prices don’t add up in places like Seattle or Los Angeles, but the two capital cities of North American countries are not the most expensive places to drink coffee. To find the most expensive coffees, you have to go to Insular America. In Bridgetown the price is 3.32 euros, the most expensive is the capital Nassau, where the average price of a cup is 3.66 euros.

North and Central America

On the other hand, in Mexico City we have a price of 2.03 euros, which is very similar to 2.20 euros in Guatemala and 2.15 euros in San Salvador. It is a very similar price across all countries in the region.

Europe has everything. The European continent is a price festival. In the east, in Warsaw, Moscow or Minsk, we have very cheap coffees, but we also have very expensive coffees in cities such as Copenhagen (5.19 euros), Oslo (4.30 euros) or Helsinki (420 euros). It’s not cheap in Paris or London either, with prices of 4.51 euros and 3.76 euros respectively, but the most expensive mug is in Switzerland.

Europe

The price is around 5.29 euros, which is a far cry from the price paid in cities such as Madrid (2.58 euros) (although mate continues its route), Rome (2.31 euros) or Lisbon (2.36 euros). Another of the most expensive coffees affected by location is Reykjavík, with an average price of 4.21 euros. On the contrary, the price in Albania is not bad, 1.13 euros per cup in Tirana. The cheapest country in Europe.

In addition to price diversity, the old continent also has a very rich coffee culture that allows the preparation of many varieties such as Viennese coffee, cappuccino, coffee with all kinds of liqueurs and even fruit. Well, if we go to England, James Hoffmann’s donut cafe.

Neither New York nor Paris. We might think that the most expensive coffee would be in a café in New York, Paris or Rome, but since Rome isn’t even among the most expensive places in Europe, where can we find the most expensive cup? To take it once a month… at most? We need to go to Asia.

Asia and Oceania

The truth is that there are places in China like Beijing where a glass is expensive and the average price is 4.28 euros. 4.5 euros in Singapore. But it’s not the most expensive in the area. You can drink a cup in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, for 4.50 euros. If you want to drink it in Tokyo, prepare about 5 euros. Does it seem like a lot to you? You need to spend 7.30 euros for a coffee in Seoul. We imagine it won’t get roasted.

On the contrary, in Vietnam the average price is 1.73 euros. Apart from its economy, it also makes sense that it is one of the countries that exports the most coffee. Nepal also has a pretty affordable average price: 1.40 euros, the most affordable mug in the region. Australia is somewhere in between, with a great coffee tradition and a cup costing an average of 3 euros.

The Middle East is rising. The coffee tradition of the Middle East is undeniable. The coffee culture in the region is undeniable, a beverage traditionally used in religious sects and today often offered as a sign of friendship or simply hospitality. However, we find huge contrasts regarding the economic factor.

Middle East

So we have an average price of 5.35 euros in Beirut, 5.27 euros in Abu Dhabi, 5.35 euros in Kuwait and 6.36 euros in Doha. It is undoubtedly the most expensive cup in the Middle East, contrasting with its price in Ankara (Turkey has another great coffee tradition) of just 1.36 euros, or 43 cents in Tehran.

What about the main manufacturers? Some of the world’s best coffees come from Central America, South America and Africa. Not only tradition comes into play here, but also the diversity of nuances in the coffee plant and the elevation of certain regions that allow the plant to mature more slowly, giving the bean different aromas and textures.

In South America there is more contrast, with 1.51 euros in Buenos Aires or 1.96 euros in Lima; these are considerably lower than 2.82 euros in Montevideo or 2.95 euros in Santiago. The average price in Africa is fairly consistent; Gaborone’s price of €2.33 is the highest.

The cheapest capital cities in each of the regions are Tegucigalpa at 1.64 euros, Bogota at just 1.19 euros and Windhoek at an average of 1.77 euros per cup. As we said at the beginning, this is the average price in different capitals, so we would like you to show the price of coffees in your region in the comments. Maybe you could even make a map of it.

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