A pint of lager costs £1.88 more in London than in Wales

Average price of a pint of draught lager in pubs and bars, by region, UK, September 2025 to August 2026. Pounds.

£6.26 against £4.38, on average, September 2025 to August 2026.

Latest figures

Each month the ONS checks the price of a pint of draught lager in a sample of pubs and bars across the UK, for its inflation figures. Each average here is of every price it checked over the 12 months, 9,172 in all: standard lager (3.4% to 4.2% alcohol) and premium lager (4.3% to 7.5%).
The ONS published its own average price of a pint until January 2025. These averages are worked out from the same kind of price checks, but may differ slightly from how the ONS worked out its own.
Regions are the ones the ONS collects prices in, which roughly match England's regions and the other UK countries: North is mostly the North East, and East Anglia is part of the East of England.
Prices vary within each region, and some regions have only a few hundred prices, so small differences between regions may not be meaningful.