What is the Italian city to take a coffee ‘cup’

In 2025 the phenomenon of dear -tazzine continues in 2025, with the prices of the classic expressed at the bar that are further increase compared to last year. A trend that continues for some time, to the point that in comparison with 2021 the indispensable appointment of Italians with the cup of coffee costs on average almost 20% more. The data emerge from a study conducted by the Consumption Training and Research Center (CRC) in collaboration with Assoutenti, which compared the coffee prices served in the bars of the main Italian cities.

Analyzing the data of the appropriate Mimit Observatory, it emerges that the cup of Espresso continues to suffer continuous increases, to the point that the price in large cities has gone from an average of 1.03 euros in 2021 to an average of 1.22 euros in January 2025, with an increase greater than 19% – explains the CRC. However, lists are extremely diversified in the area: Bolzano confirms the city with the most expensive coffee, with an average price of 1.43 euros, followed by Trento, Pescara and Trieste with 1.34 euros. On the opposite side, Catanzaro is the cheapest, the only one of the large provinces where the cup does not exceed the cost of 1 euro.

If you analyze the trend of the last 4 years, the heaviest increases are recorded in Pescara (+34%) and Bari (+32%): also Naples, the worldwide capital of coffee, records increases above 32%and an average price now close to 1.20 euros, underlines the training and research center on consumption.

In terms of effects on the pockets of Italians, the increase in the price of the Espresso determines a aggravation of not indifferent spending, explains Assoutenti. The coffee break at the bar represents a daily fixed appointment for millions of citizens, to the point that in Italy 6 billion cups are served every year in public places in the peninsula. This means that the expenditure for espresso goes from 6.18 billion per year of 2021 to the current 7.32 billion, with an increase of 1.14 billion with the same consumption.

“At the base of the dear -Capoffè there are a series of factors – explains the president of Assoutenti, Gabriele Melluso – the dear -energy that determines higher costs for the public exercises, and the rates of the raw material, with the quotes of the robust that travel today above 5,400 dollars per tonne against the $ 1,400 of 2021, while the Arabic travels around 3.9 dollars reach The historic maximums have impactful on the cost of coffee in Italy, with the espresso that becomes more and more salty.