Is it expensive? Price levels in Europe and Japan, 2025

TL;DR

Eurostat's 2025 price levels for restaurants and accommodation ran from 53 in Albania to 173 in Iceland, with the EU average at 100, across 34 European countries. In Japan, prices by prefecture ran from 96.2 to 104.2 of the national average. These compare price levels, not trip costs.

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How do prices compare across Europe?

Eurostat's price level indices compare the level of prices between countries, with the EU average set at 100. A figure of 120 means prices about 20% above the EU average; 80 means about 20% below.

For restaurants and accommodation in 2025, the lowest levels were in Albania (53), Bulgaria (56) and Romania (59), and the highest in Iceland (173), Switzerland (163) and Denmark (142).¹ Eurostat warns that these indices are not meant to give a strict ranking of countries, only the rough order of magnitude, so the table is in alphabetical order; you can sort it by any column.

Price level indices by country, 2025 (EU average = 100)
Country	Restaurants and accommodation	Food and non-alcoholic drinks	Alcoholic drinks	Passenger transport services	All household spending
Albania	53	104	159	61	73
Austria	117	110	89	125	113
Belgium	117	105	113	121	116
Bulgaria	56	93	109	56	63
Croatia	90	106	134	85	78
Cyprus	85	100	114	98	89
Czechia	70	90	92	78	89
Denmark	142	121	122	159	140
Estonia	88	110	136	98	101
Finland	122	108	207	147	121
France	116	107	101	113	110
Germany	108	102	86	117	108
Greece	86	105	154	99	87
Hungary	82	95	99	61	78
Iceland	173	156	298	177	174
Ireland	118	116	192	115	136
Italy	111	101	82	84	97
Latvia	87	108	137	73	83
Lithuania	83	103	131	82	83
Luxembourg	119	122	102	99	132
Malta	91	113	124	105	92
Montenegro	67	87	129	72	66
Netherlands	120	99	100	123	116
Norway	140	133	226	167	129
Poland	81	90	109	69	73
Portugal	74	102	107	80	87
Romania	59	80	97	76	65
Serbia	66	97	116	80	68
Slovakia	85	83	98	94	85
Slovenia	87	101	109	100	89
Spain	85	95	90	83	92
Sweden	123	110	150	145	121
Switzerland	163	156	154	147	171
Türkiye	78	77	210	68	60

Restaurants and accommodation is one combined heading in this dataset: there is no hotels-only figure. Liechtenstein is not in the dataset. These are price levels, not what a trip will cost: check current prices when you book.

How do prices compare across Japan?

Japan's Statistics Bureau publishes a regional difference index of consumer prices, with Japan's national average set at 100. In 2025 the all-items index ran from 96.2 in Gunma to 104.2 in Tokyo.² It cannot be compared with the European figures, which use a different base, and it has no separate heading for restaurants or hotels.

Regional difference index of consumer prices, all items, 2025 (Japan average = 100)
Prefecture	Japanese name	All items
Aichi	愛知県	98.0
Akita	秋田県	98.6
Aomori	青森県	97.9
Chiba	千葉県	100.5
Ehime	愛媛県	99.2
Fukui	福井県	99.3
Fukuoka	福岡県	98.5
Fukushima	福島県	99.0
Gifu	岐阜県	97.2
Gunma	群馬県	96.2
Hiroshima	広島県	98.8
Hokkaido	北海道	102.4
Hyogo	兵庫県	99.4
Ibaraki	茨城県	97.5
Ishikawa	石川県	99.4
Iwate	岩手県	100.0
Kagawa	香川県	98.7
Kagoshima	鹿児島県	96.4
Kanagawa	神奈川県	103.3
Kochi	高知県	99.9
Kumamoto	熊本県	99.8
Kyoto	京都府	101.1
Mie	三重県	98.1
Miyagi	宮城県	100.2
Miyazaki	宮崎県	98.0
Nagano	長野県	96.9
Nagasaki	長崎県	99.6
Nara	奈良県	97.8
Niigata	新潟県	97.8
Oita	大分県	97.4
Okayama	岡山県	97.7
Okinawa	沖縄県	100.4
Osaka	大阪府	99.9
Saga	佐賀県	98.5
Saitama	埼玉県	100.2
Shiga	滋賀県	97.7
Shimane	島根県	99.8
Shizuoka	静岡県	98.2
Tochigi	栃木県	97.3
Tokushima	徳島県	98.9
Tokyo	東京都	104.2
Tottori	鳥取県	99.1
Toyama	富山県	98.7
Wakayama	和歌山県	97.7
Yamagata	山形県	100.1
Yamaguchi	山口県	99.6
Yamanashi	山梨県	97.7

For when accommodation prices rise and fall through the year, see which months accommodation costs most.

Key takeaways

Restaurants and accommodation, 2025: from 53 (Albania) to 173 (Iceland), EU average 100.
Eurostat says the indices show rough order of magnitude, not a strict ranking.
What we would skip: reading an index as the price you will pay; it compares levels between countries.

Sources

Figures as published, rounded to whole numbers for Europe; Japan's index as published to one decimal place. See how we research.

Price levels: Eurostat, Purchasing power parities, price level indices, nominal and real expenditures by analytical categories – based on COICOP 2018, doi:10.2908/PRC_PPP_IND_1, accessed 6 October 2026 (data updated by Eurostat on 9 July 2026). Extract: price level indices, EU27 (from 2020) = 100, 2025. Eurostat is not responsible for our calculations or for how we present its data.
Japan: 「小売物価統計調査（構造編）結果」（総務省統計局）、2025年消費者物価地域差指数（全国平均＝100）、e-Stat file 000040506879, e-stat.go.jp, published 18 September 2026, accessed 6 October 2026, を加工して作成 (we processed this data: we show the all-items index, 総合, and our English names).

Modified data: the selection of headings, the rounding and the arrangement are ours. Eurostat is not responsible for our calculations or for how we present its data.