How much does specialty coffee cost per kilo?

The median is €51.53 per kilogram, measured across 8,680 retail bags currently in stock at 965 specialty roasters. Half of all bags fall between €39.20 and €68.94 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 €234.52 per kilo, on 136 bags from 45 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: 2026-09-20T08:47:31.166Z
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.

€51.53 per kilo

Middle half: €39.20 – €68.94
Bags sampled: 8,680
Roasters: 965
Snapshot: 2026-09-20

Download the full index (CSV) How this is measured

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 €234.52/kg, across 45 roasters.
Processing method moves price: wet hulled at €48 · natural at €55 · washed at €55 · other at €56 · honey at €64 · 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 – €44.52	209	36
Ireland	€39.95	€33.90 – €56.00	219	27
Israel	€40.29	€31.44 – €57.56	150	12
Netherlands	€41.99	€29.08 – €60.83	170	36
Belgium	€43.00	€35.15 – €59.12	152	21
Germany	€44.00	€37.20 – €55.60	918	64
Switzerland	€45.15	€28.81 – €59.29	224	21
Czech Republic	€47.21	€15.49 – €62.11	105	8
Austria	€49.20	€40.80 – €62.00	208	20
United States	€51.70	€43.95 – €67.22	866	98
United Kingdom	€52.41	€42.16 – €65.58	1,793	255
Greece	€53.64	€41.25 – €80.00	193	10
Australia	€54.05	€44.22 – €76.16	481	45
Canada	€55.64	€46.80 – €86.32	210	26
France	€56.00	€40.40 – €80.00	685	72
Sweden	€60.00	€43.15 – €79.70	96	13
Norway	€60.38	€54.99 – €82.74	92	9
Portugal	€61.17	€25.00 – €72.63	120	14
Spain	€63.00	€52.50 – €92.00	156	17
Thailand	€65.22	€31.31 – €104.36	161	11
Italy	€72.67	€45.94 – €115.00	210	18
Singapore	€74.90	€55.83 – €106.56	94	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	€41.77	€27.31 – €51.60	200	80
Indonesia	€42.16	€20.83 – €60.00	237	123
Brazil	€45.43	€35.47 – €54.00	957	446
Mexico	€47.92	€39.53 – €58.64	164	123
Honduras	€48.02	€37.48 – €64.00	206	140
Nicaragua	€51.20	€42.03 – €62.00	121	86
Peru	€51.60	€39.82 – €68.01	331	215
Guatemala	€52.00	€42.77 – €67.34	309	202
Papua New Guinea	€53.37	€43.31 – €59.44	46	41
Tanzania	€54.00	€39.60 – €70.27	57	42
Uganda	€54.55	€45.09 – €65.19	98	79
Rwanda	€56.52	€46.00 – €67.60	169	126
El Salvador	€58.76	€47.90 – €72.70	120	90
Costa Rica	€59.34	€44.50 – €74.81	242	158
Ethiopia	€59.60	€46.53 – €76.39	849	422
Colombia	€60.90	€46.84 – €89.23	1,285	536
Burundi	€61.16	€43.46 – €70.28	56	42
Kenya	€64.00	€51.59 – €79.90	310	222
Thailand	€71.75	€63.59 – €98.60	32	9
Bolivia	€77.30	€59.60 – €119.75	42	21
Ecuador	€86.74	€65.34 – €193.78	60	41
Panama	€234.52	€100.00 – €406.69	136	45

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	€39.23 – €60.25	43	32
natural	€54.79	€42.99 – €72.43	1,512	515
washed	€55.28	€42.34 – €71.20	2,523	629
other	€56.00	€43.17 – €70.73	187	127
honey	€64.46	€46.84 – €96.62	281	168
anaerobic	€85.08	€63.12 – €126.67	325	183

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: 8,680 bags, or 38.2% of the 22,709 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	12,499
Not a retail bag (sample sachet or wholesale sack)	423
Currency with no ECB reference rate	334
Subscription	310
Gift box or tasting set	291
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.