The data
UK Coffee Price Index
2,809 coffees · 224 UK roasters · updated July 2026
The median bag of UK specialty coffee costs £39.00 per kilogram in July 2026. Half of everything on sale sits between £32.50 and £48.75/kg — computed from every live listing we track, not a survey.
Median price
£39.00/kg
Typical range
£33–49
middle 50% of coffees, per kg
Coffees tracked
2,809
in-stock beans with a comparable price
UK roasters
224
What a cup costs at home
Median cost of one coffee, by format — against a bought flat white. Specialty beans at home run roughly 6× cheaper per cup than the high street.
Price by roast level
Median £/kg across the coffees that state a roast.
| Median | Coffees | |
|---|---|---|
| Light | £44.00/kg | 1040 |
| Medium-Light | £40.00/kg | 356 |
| Medium | £36.00/kg | 1087 |
| Medium-Dark | £40.00/kg | 160 |
| Dark | £33.25/kg | 166 |
How prices spread
Share of all tracked beans by price band, per kg.
Origin economics
Median £/kg by origin country (single origins only — blends excluded). Rarity, freight and auction demand show up clearly at the top end.
Most affordable
| Median | Coffees | |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | £33.00/kg | 50 |
| Brazil | £35.00/kg | 263 |
| India | £35.50/kg | 25 |
| Papua New Guinea | £35.85/kg | 25 |
| Honduras | £36.00/kg | 41 |
| Nicaragua | £36.50/kg | 46 |
Priciest
| Median | Coffees | |
|---|---|---|
| Panama | £72.00/kg | 10 |
| Ecuador | £66.90/kg | 8 |
| Burundi | £44.95/kg | 47 |
| Colombia | £44.80/kg | 489 |
| Peru | £43.25/kg | 182 |
| Bolivia | £42.95/kg | 19 |
Price by roaster region
Median £/kg by where the roaster is based, cheapest first.
| Median | Coffees | |
|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire and the Humber | £30.50/kg | 208 |
| South West | £35.68/kg | 301 |
| East Midlands | £36.00/kg | 129 |
| North East | £36.85/kg | 63 |
| East of England | £37.75/kg | 187 |
| South East | £37.98/kg | 444 |
| North West | £38.00/kg | 181 |
| Scotland | £41.75/kg | 230 |
| West Midlands | £42.95/kg | 140 |
| Northern Ireland | £44.00/kg | 55 |
| Greater London | £44.95/kg | 413 |
| Wales | £46.22/kg | 80 |
Methodology & citing
- Prices come directly from 224 UK roasters' own listings, refreshed continuously by our crawler; this page recomputes daily. Nothing is sponsored — see how we work.
- Every figure is a median, not a mean — genuine £400+/kg auction lots exist and would distort an average.
- Per-cup assumptions: 18g of beans per espresso, 2g per cup of instant, one pod per pod-machine coffee, and £4.00 for a bought flat white (typical UK high-street price; the one number here that isn't ours).
- Groups are only quoted when the sample is big enough to mean something (roasts ≥30 coffees, origins ≥8, regions ≥12).
Cite freely with attribution: “UK Coffee Price Index, Coffee Compare, July 2026 — coffeecomparer.com/price-index”. Each section heading is a stable anchor link.