Want to drink cheap, quality beer? Come to Budapest!

According to Eurostat, the cost of beer is the lowest in Hungary in the European Union, but a recent Numbeo survey found that it is only one of the lowest ones because, for example, Prague precedes it with 10 euro cents. Anyway, if you want to drink cheap beer to make this scorching summer heat bearable, come to Budapest!

Cheap quality beer in Hungary

According to Világgazdaság, Numbeo is a website comparing prices of different products based on data generated by its users. Therefore, their data might be a bit misleading, but still useful.

According to a Eurostat survey published in April, draught beer prices range between EUR 2.04 and 2.55 in Budapest. As a result, Hungary is among the cheapest beer places in Europe, in one league with Moldova and Georgia. We detailed that survey in THIS article.

Based on Numbeo, the most expensive beer is in Rejkjavík in Europe, where you have to pay EUR 10 for 0.5l. Oslo with EUR 9.6, and Copenhagen with EUR 8 top the list.

Debrecen beer prices lower

Meanwhile, Hungary is at the end of the list with only EUR 2.5/0.5l for draught beer. Ankara, Türkiye’s capital, precedes Hungary with EUR 2.9, while Bratislava (Pozsony, Slovakia), Tirana (Albania) and Prague (Czechia) fell behind with EUR 2.5 and 2.4. In the region, Moldova’s capital, Chișinău, is the cheapest. Draught beer costs only EUR 1.9/0.5l there.

Of course, the price depends on where you drink your beer. Világgazdaság says the Hungarian EUR 2.5 average draught beer cost is based on the data of the Numbeo users enjoying their drink in a downtown pub. In Debrecen, you have to pay only EUR 1.3 for the same beer. We wrote about why Debrecen is not Europe’s most depressing city HERE.

Beer prices skyrocketed in the last few years

According to Világgazdaság, beer prices increased significantly after the COVID-19 pandemic. A couple of years ago, you could drink your beer in Budapest for only EUR 1 and do the same in Prague. In Germany, you had to pay only EUR 2, but now it costs EUR 4.

You can now drink the cheapest beer in Kyiv (EUR 1.1), Minsk (EUR 1.2) and Chișinău (EUR 1.3). Those are probably also downtown beer prices, so it might happen that the real prices in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova are even lower.

However, in Budapest and Hungary, there are many other things to see and try out apart from the good and cheap beer. HERE are ten unusual things to do in the Hungarian capital.

Read also:

• Beer has become brutally expensive in Hungary – Read more HERE
• Europe’s cheapest beer, right HERE in Hungary

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