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Grocery prices in Austria, category by category
By Covered Abroad Research Desk · Last verified July 2026
Where Austria sits
Eurostat compares price levels across Europe with the EU average at 100. Austria in 2025:
- Food and non-alcoholic beverages — 109.5, second-dearest of the ten European countries this site covers, after Malta.
- Overall price level — 119.0, also second of the ten, just behind the Netherlands.
Food comes in almost ten points below Austria's overall level. As in its northern neighbours, the higher costs of Austrian life sit mainly in services — Eurostat's services index for Austria is 124.8 — rather than in the weekly shop. Austrian food prices were essentially flat year on year, at 109.3 in 2024 and 109.5 in 2025.
Source: Eurostat — Purchasing power parities and price level indices (prc_ppp_ind_1), 2024 and 2025 values, dataset updated 9 July 2026, read 7 October 2026.
The categories
Eurostat's food breakdown for Austria, against the EU average of 100. Two categories are the dearest of the ten countries we cover:
- Bread and cereals — 120.4
- Fish and seafood — 123.5
Meat (118.8), vegetables (111.2) and oils and fats (114.1) also sit well above the average.
The more affordable end of the shop:
- Fruit — 93.1, among the cheapest of the ten
- Alcohol — 89.1
- Dairy and eggs 102.2, sugar and sweets 106.6 and soft drinks 105.1 — close to the middle of the table
In everyday terms: fruit, wine and beer are reasonable value in Austria, while the bakery, the fish counter and the butcher are where the bill builds.
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