What It Costs to Live in Cyprus: October 2026 Price Check

This is our monthly snapshot of what everyday things cost in Cyprus, built only from prices we checked ourselves on official observatories, operators' fare pages and published menus, each with the date we checked it. For budgets by city and wages, see our main cost of living in Cyprus 2026 guide.

This page is updated monthly. This edition: prices checked on 16–17 October 2026.

What surprised us this month?

• Same butter, 73% apart. A 250 g pack of Lurpak slightly salted butter was €3.15 at Lidl and €5.45 at the dearest shop listed on e-Kalathi.
• Diesel now costs more than petrol. Diesel averaged €2.018 a litre, about 26 cents more than unleaded 95 (€1.759). On 7 October Cyprus Mail reported diesel's highest price ever, €2.126 a litre at one Limassol station.
• Local bananas more than double on the way to the shelf. On 8 October producers sold Cypriot bananas for €0.80/kg on average; the average supermarket price was €1.75/kg.
• The big chains barely differ. AlphaMega, Sklavenitis, Lidl and Metro were usually within a few cents of each other. The cheapest and the dearest prices were almost always at smaller local shops and village stores.
• A year of buses costs €168.50 more in Nicosia than in Paphos. A personalised annual pass is €668.50 on Cyprus Public Transport routes and €500 in Paphos.

How much is a basic supermarket basket?

Prices for 13 branded staples sold island-wide, from the government's e-Kalathi observatory. "Lowest" and "highest" are the cheapest and dearest shops listing the item; "median" is the middle price across all of them.

Eggs are a pack of 12 because e-Kalathi lists no 10-egg pack. Bread, fresh chicken and meat are not covered by the observatory, so we have left them out rather than estimate.

Do the big chains charge the same?

Very nearly. Lowest price at each chain for six of the items on 17 October 2026 (e-Kalathi):

What do fruit and vegetables cost?

Average prices per kilo recorded by the Department of Agriculture's e-Kofini observatory on 8 October 2026 (its latest update when we checked on 17 October), for local produce.

On 9 October the Cyprus Consumers Association found fruit and vegetables at a Nicosia farmers' market 26% cheaper on average than in supermarkets (Cyprus Mail, 13 October 2026). See our guide to markets in Cyprus.

How much is fuel?

Island-wide figures from the Consumer Protection Service's retail fuel price observatory.

The European Commission's Weekly Oil Bulletin for 12 October 2026 gives similar averages: €1.760 for unleaded and €2.021 for diesel.

What does electricity cost?

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) single-rate domestic tariff (code 01), in the tariff document applicable from August 2025 that we opened on 16 October 2026:

That is 14.65 cents per kWh before the monthly fuel adjustment, other levies and VAT. The fuel adjustment for recent months was not published on the EAC page we checked, and EAC does not publish a typical household bill, so we do not give one. Our utilities guide explains how to read your bill.

How much is the bus?

The Nicosia and Larnaca fares took effect on 3 August 2026. Holders of a personalised card who qualify for a discount pay 50%. More in our public transport guide.

What are asking rents?

Median asking rents for apartments listed on INDEX.cy in the three months to 10 October 2026 (checked 17 October 2026). Asking rents are what landlords advertise, not signed contracts.

Paphos one-bedroom figures rest on only eight listings, and Famagusta had too few to report. Cystat's house price index rose 7.9% year on year in the second quarter of 2026. Before signing, read our renting guide.

What does a coffee or a souvlaki cost?

Prices on the restaurants' own Wolt delivery menus, opened on 17 October 2026. Prices when you eat in may differ.

We have not included meze: we did not find a dated, published meze price we could check.

Is inflation going up or down?

Cystat reported that the Consumer Price Index rose 3.7% year on year in September 2026 (released 8 October 2026). The EU-harmonised index (HICP), which Eurostat uses to compare countries, rose 5.2% (released 16 October 2026). By category, transport was up 11.87%, housing, water, electricity and gas 9.63% and food 3.56%, while clothing fell 10.75% (as summarised by Trading Economics, 8 October 2026).

How we check

• Dates: every price was checked on 16–17 October 2026, except e-Kofini produce prices, which are the Department of Agriculture's latest recording (8 October 2026).
• Groceries: we chose 13 widely sold branded staples and downloaded every shop price e-Kalathi lists for each (69 to 189 shops per item). Prices are as reported by retailers to the observatory and may include temporary offers.
• Fuel, buses, electricity, inflation: official sources only (Consumer Protection Service, Cyprus Public Transport, Paphos Buses, EAC, Cystat).
• Rents and eating out: published listings and menus, named in each table. We leave out anything we could not check, rather than estimate.
• Updates: this page is updated monthly, so you can compare one month with the next.

What to do next

1. Build your monthly budget with our cost of living in Cyprus 2026 guide.
2. Find out where to shop and compare prices yourself on e-Kalathi before a big shop.
3. Shortlist areas that fit your budget with our area finder.