The UK’s Most Expensive Cities for Coffee in 2026, Revealed by Data

Whether it’s a flat white on the way to work or a cappuccino with friends, coffee is part of daily life for millions of people in the UK. But how much you pay for it depends a lot on where you live.

Here at OddsMonkey, we analysed average coffee prices across 71 UK cities to find out where a daily coffee costs the most, and where it costs the least. Here’s what we found.

Key Findings

• London is the UK’s most expensive city for coffee at an average of £4.55 a cup. A daily coffee there costs £1,660.75 a year.
• Carlisle is the cheapest at £2.62 a cup, or £956.30 a year. It’s the only city where a daily coffee costs less than £1,000 a year.
• The gap between the two is £704.45 a year, or £58.70 a month.
• Leicester is the surprise runner-up at £4.37 a cup, ahead of Oxford, Bath and Cambridge.
• The UK average is £3.53 a cup, which adds up to £1,288.91 a year for a daily coffee.
• England is the most expensive home nation, with a daily coffee costing around £1,298 a year, compared with £1,267 in Scotland, £1,256 in Wales and £1,255 in Northern Ireland.

Where in the UK Does a Daily Coffee Cost the Most

London tops the ranking at £4.55 a cup. Buy one every day and you’ll spend £31.85 a week, £138.40 a month and £1,660.75 over a year.

Leicester comes second at £4.37 a cup, or £1,595.05 a year. That makes it pricier than several cities with a reputation for high prices, including Bath (£3.80), Oxford (£3.77) and Cambridge (£3.41).

Colchester takes third place at £4.22 a cup, well ahead of its Essex neighbours. A coffee costs £3.62 in Chelmsford and just £3.00 in Southend-on-Sea.

Glasgow is fourth at £4.13, making it the most expensive city outside England. Over a year, a daily coffee there costs £91.25 more than in Edinburgh. Bristol (£4.11) completes the top five, and these are the only five cities where a daily coffee costs more than £1,500 a year.

Rounding out the top ten are Ely and Liverpool (both £3.90), Edinburgh (£3.88), Southampton (£3.85) and Chester (£3.81).

The UK’s Cheapest Cities for a Daily Coffee

Carlisle is the cheapest city in the UK for coffee, at £2.62 a cup. A daily coffee there costs £18.34 a week, £79.69 a month and £956.30 a year, around £333 less than the UK average.

Dundee is second cheapest at £2.86 a cup (£1,043.90 a year), followed by a three-way tie between Derry/Londonderry, Salford and Southend-on-Sea, all at £3.00.

Salford stands out because it’s right next door to Manchester, where a coffee costs £3.69. Over a year, that’s a difference of £251.85 for the same daily habit.

Perth (£3.03), Stoke-on-Trent (£3.09), Kingston upon Hull (£3.15) and Sheffield (£3.17) also make the ten cheapest, with Lancaster, Preston and Wakefield tied in tenth place at £3.24.

How Much Could You Save by Cutting Back on Coffee

A daily coffee might only cost a few pounds, but small changes to the habit can add up to big savings over a year.

Skipping your weekend coffees is one of the easiest changes to make. At the UK average price of £3.53 a cup, cutting out 104 weekend coffees a year would save you around £367. In London, that saving rises to £473.20.

Cutting back doesn’t have to mean giving up coffee altogether. Making your own at home a few days a week, using loyalty apps and stamp cards, and bringing a reusable cup, which many cafés reward with a small discount, can all help bring the cost down.

Full Rankings

Methodology

We used average prices for a regular cappuccino from Numbeo and Expatistan, the crowdsourced cost-of-living databases, collected in 2026.

To calculate the total costs, we utilised one takeaway coffee price per day. Weekly costs are the price multiplied by 7, annual costs are the price multiplied by 365, and monthly costs are the annual cost divided by 12. The UK and national averages are the mean price across the cities included.

Our study covered 71 UK cities. Lichfield, Ripon, St Asaph and St Davids aren’t included in the ranking due to price data not being available.

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