How much does specialty coffee cost per kilo?

The median is €51.39 per kilogram, measured across 8,375 retail bags currently in stock at 958 specialty roasters. Half of all bags fall between €39.13 and €69.16 per kilo.

Which country has the most expensive specialty coffee?

Of the 25 countries with a large enough sample, Japan has the highest median at €80.48 per kilo, and India the lowest at €25.49. Prices are converted to euros at ECB reference rates as of 2026-07-24, so the comparison is not distorted by exchange rates.

Why is Panama coffee so expensive?

Panama has the highest median of any origin at €236.34 per kilo, on 127 bags from 44 roasters. Gesha dominates what roasters list from there, and competition lots sell in 100 g bags at prices no commodity coffee approaches. That is a real market price, not a data error.

How is the Tamp Price Index calculated?

Every in-stock coffee across Tamp's roaster catalogue that publishes both a price and a bag weight is converted to a price per kilogram, then to euros at ECB reference rates. We take the median, never the mean, and we do not trim the expensive end — competition lots are real prices. Multi-bag packs, subscriptions, gift boxes, drip sachets, pods and wholesale sacks are excluded, because their price and their stated bag weight describe different quantities. A figure is only published when it rests on at least 30 bags from at least 8 different roasters.

Yes. The full index is available as a CSV under a CC BY 4.0 licence — free to use, including commercially, with attribution to Tamp. If you publish a figure from it, please link back to this page so readers can see the methodology and the sample size.

Dataset · updated monthly

The Specialty Coffee Price Index

Name: Tamp Specialty Coffee Price Index
Creator: Tamp
Published: 2026-09-21T13:27:44.321Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

What a kilo of specialty coffee actually costs — measured from the shelves of every roaster on Tamp, not from a survey. By country, by origin, by process.

€51.39 per kilo

Middle half: €39.13 – €69.16
Bags sampled: 8,375
Roasters: 958
Snapshot: 2026-09-21

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What the data says

€80.48 in Japan against €25.49 in India — a 216% spread between the dearest and cheapest markets, after currency conversion.
Coffee from Panama carries the highest origin premium at €236.34/kg, across 44 roasters.
Processing method moves price: wet hulled at €48 · natural at €55 · washed at €55 · other at €57 · honey at €65 · anaerobic at €85 per kilo.

Where it's sold

Median price by country

The country is where the roaster is, not where the bean grew. Cheapest first.

Country	Median /kg	Middle half	Bags	Roasters
India	€25.49	€19.66 – €36.04	107	14
South Africa	€31.30	€22.91 – €44.86	116	20
New Zealand	€36.63	€30.53 – €42.74	206	36
Ireland	€39.95	€33.90 – €56.00	219	27
Israel	€40.29	€31.59 – €58.21	152	12
Netherlands	€41.98	€29.00 – €60.00	169	35
Belgium	€42.00	€34.60 – €58.00	143	20
Germany	€44.00	€37.96 – €55.60	810	63
Switzerland	€45.15	€28.49 – €59.77	205	21
Czech Republic	€46.38	€15.28 – €62.78	101	8
Austria	€50.20	€40.80 – €63.20	186	20
United States	€51.70	€43.95 – €67.22	867	98
United Kingdom	€52.41	€42.16 – €65.56	1,747	256
Greece	€53.64	€41.25 – €80.00	193	10
Australia	€54.05	€44.22 – €76.30	471	45
Sweden	€54.09	€39.80 – €76.44	72	12
Canada	€55.64	€46.80 – €87.36	209	26
France	€56.00	€40.00 – €80.00	685	72
Portugal	€61.17	€25.00 – €72.63	120	14
Spain	€63.50	€52.50 – €92.00	156	17
Thailand	€65.22	€31.31 – €104.36	157	11
Norway	€66.68	€55.07 – €83.76	62	8
Italy	€72.67	€45.94 – €115.00	210	18
Singapore	€74.90	€55.83 – €107.58	93	11
Japan	€80.48	€59.95 – €112.67	51	10

Where it grew

Median price by origin

What roasters charge for coffee from each growing country, wherever in the world they sell it.

Origin	Median /kg	Middle half	Bags	Roasters
India	€40.82	€27.31 – €51.59	189	75
Indonesia	€40.85	€20.88 – €60.00	230	117
Brazil	€45.88	€35.60 – €55.60	897	433
Mexico	€47.84	€39.31 – €56.87	157	120
Honduras	€48.27	€37.48 – €64.13	200	136
Peru	€51.60	€39.82 – €68.09	317	211
Nicaragua	€51.80	€42.13 – €62.40	112	82
Papua New Guinea	€51.97	€43.00 – €58.86	42	37
Guatemala	€52.00	€42.13 – €67.05	300	196
Tanzania	€54.00	€39.40 – €69.88	55	40
Uganda	€54.55	€45.03 – €67.18	95	77
Rwanda	€56.21	€45.21 – €67.40	156	117
El Salvador	€58.56	€46.68 – €71.30	120	89
Costa Rica	€58.82	€44.02 – €76.00	228	153
Ethiopia	€59.60	€46.53 – €76.70	820	411
Burundi	€60.88	€42.54 – €70.32	52	39
Colombia	€60.90	€46.79 – €89.85	1,225	520
Kenya	€64.00	€51.42 – €79.90	290	211
Thailand	€71.75	€63.59 – €98.60	32	9
Bolivia	€77.65	€59.60 – €127.92	41	20
Ecuador	€90.76	€65.58 – €195.00	57	39
Panama	€236.34	€111.26 – €412.41	127	44

How it was processed

Median price by process

Processing is a choice made at the mill, and it shows up in what you pay.

Process	Median /kg	Middle half	Bags	Roasters
wet hulled	€47.83	€40.05 – €58.96	41	30
natural	€54.76	€42.64 – €72.73	1,448	503
washed	€54.95	€42.12 – €71.60	2,412	619
other	€56.77	€42.33 – €75.20	162	113
honey	€64.76	€46.00 – €98.58	264	158
anaerobic	€84.95	€63.04 – €126.25	314	173

Methodology

How this is measured

Tamp tracks the live catalogues of specialty roasters worldwide. Every coffee that is in stock and publishes both a price and a bag weight becomes one observation: price divided by weight, expressed per kilogram, converted to euros.

We report the median, never the average. The real price distribution of specialty coffee has a long and genuine tail at the top — competition Gesha lots sell in 100 g bags at several hundred euros a kilo. Those are real prices, so we do not trim them, and an average would let a handful of them move a whole country's figure. A median will not.

What we do exclude is anything whose price and stated bag weight describe different quantities: multi-bag packs, subscriptions, gift boxes and tasting sets, drip sachets, pods, capsules, instant, and wholesale sacks. A three-bag gift box priced as one bag would otherwise read as a coffee costing four times what it does.

Exchange rates: ECB euro reference rates, 2026-07-24. Prices in currencies without an ECB rate are excluded rather than guessed at.
Publication floors: A figure appears only when it rests on at least 30 bags from at least 8 different roasters. 54 slices were withheld this snapshot for falling short — a median over a handful of shops is not a market rate.
Sample: 8,375 bags, or 37.0% of the 22,662 in-stock coffees in the catalogue. Bag weight is the binding constraint: most excluded coffees simply never publish one.
Licence: CC BY 4.0. Free to use, including commercially, with attribution to Tamp. If you publish a figure, please link here so readers can see the sample behind it.

What was excluded, and why

Reason	Coffees
No bag weight published	12,767
Not a retail bag (sample sachet or wholesale sack)	420
Currency with no ECB reference rate	334
Subscription	308
Gift box or tasting set	286
Multi-bag pack	106
Drip sachet, pod, capsule or instant	42
No price published	27
Price below the economic floor (extraction error)	14

One known limitation: where a roaster lists several bag sizes for the same coffee, we hold the lowest advertised price and the bag weight we could read from the listing. On a multi-size product those can describe different variants, which widens the spread without biasing the median in either direction. We would rather state that than quietly drop the coffee.