September 20264,2%Compared with the same month last year
All items4,2%
Food and non-alcoholic drinks1,7%
Housing, water, electricity and gas11,6%
Transport8,5%
Last 12 months
September 20264,2%
August 20263,2%
July 20262,9%
June 20263,0%
May 20263,2%
April 20262,8%
March 20261,6%
February 20261,5%
January 20261,0%
December 20251,2%
November 20251,1%
October 20251,3%
September 20251,7%
Comparison with other European countries · September 2026
1. Sweden1,0%2. Switzerland1,2%3. Denmark2,1%4. Hungary2,1%5. Czechia2,2%6. Malta2,4%7. Finland2,7%8. Albania2,7%9. Latvia3,0%10. Netherlands3,0%11. Slovakia3,0%12. Estonia3,1%13. Germany3,3%14. France3,4%15. Norway3,4%16. North Macedonia3,5%17. Austria3,6%18. Portugal3,6%19. Slovenia3,7%20. Ireland3,8%21. Poland4,0%22. Italy4,2%23. Serbia4,2%24. Croatia4,3%25. Belgium4,5%26. Spain5,0%27. Greece5,1%28. Georgia5,1%29. Cyprus5,2%30. Luxembourg5,2%31. Iceland5,4%32. Montenegro5,5%33. Bulgaria5,6%34. Lithuania6,1%35. Romania6,5%36. Türkiye29,7%
Questions and answers
What is the inflation rate?
4,2% (September 2026, HICP, Eurostat).
What does this inflation figure measure?
The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: how much the prices of goods and services bought by households changed compared with a year earlier, measured the same way in every EU country.
Source: Eurostat prc_hicp_minr (HICP).