Is it just us, or does it feel like the price of a pint keeps getting more and more expensive almost every week at this point?
We’ll answer for you: yes—yes it does, and while you can’t expect big cities like Leeds to be the cheapest places to get one in the UK, we do often wonder how it compares to other parts of the country.
Well, as it happens, someone has recently crunched the numbers for us across the nation, breaking down which regions pay the most and the least for their pints.
The data has been examined by business management consultancy firm, CGA Strategy, using artificial intelligence and information from the latest Retail Price Index figures to find out what the ‘average price of a pint’ is down south, up North and everywhere in between.
While the latest statistics provided by the group aren’t granular enough to clue us in on Leeds’ pint game, specifically, we can show you how our particular geographic region is looking on the leaderboard at the moment.
The average price of a pint per region in the UK
- Wales – £4.21
- North East – £4.28
- Northern Ireland – £4.42
- Scotland – £4.42
- Yorkshire and the Humber – £4.42
- North West – £4.42
- West Midlands – £4.42
- East Midlands – £4.42
- East England – £4.56
- South West – £4.93
- South East – £4.94
- London – £5.44
That’s right, folks from Yorkshire and the Humber region are technically joint mid-table when it comes to the lowest average cost of a pint, sharing the places from 3rd to 8th according to CGA, anyway.
Meanwhile, our friends over in Greater Manchester share a roughly similar price point, also clocking in at under £4.50.
Powered by consumer intelligence company, NIQ (NielsenIQ) – who also use AI and the latest technology to deliver their insights – we can accept it might seem like it’s been a while since you’ve paid that little for a pint, especially in the city centre, but these are the stats they have published.
Don’t shoot the messenger, as they say; unless, of course, they’re trying to rob you blind for a bev. Fortunately, we’ve practically turned bargain hunting at the bar into a sport now.
London tops the charts (pretends to be shocked)
While some of you may have raised and eyebrow or two at the supposed average pint prices across Yorkshire, it won’t surprise any of you to see that London leads the way when it came to the most expensive pints when it came to average cost in the UK.
To be honest, £5.44 doesn’t just sound cheap but virtually unheard of these days.
CGA states that the average cost of a beer in the capital is actually down 15p from September 2024, but as we all know, paying upwards of £7 for a pint down that end of the country is pretty much standard the closer you get to London.
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