The London Pint Index
London pint prices, by fare zone
What a pint costs nationally
None of these figures are ours. They are here so the prices on this page have something to sit against, and each one names who counted it, when, and exactly what they counted. A national cask ale is not a London pint.
- a draught pint, UK-wide
£5.34 in May 2026.
The Morning Advertiser, 21 May 2026. Its own survey of pub operators, across more than 30 beer brands.
- a pint of cask ale, UK-wide
£4.91 in July 2026.
The Morning Advertiser, 23 July 2026. Its Beer Report 2026 reader survey. Cask ale only, so it sits below the draught figure above.
- a draught lager, UK-wide
£1.22 in 1990. £4.83 in January 2025.
Up £3.61 in 35 years.
Office for National Statistics, 21 July 2026. The RPI average price series for draught lager, which stops at January 2025.
The Zone pint index
A pint in Zone 1 costs more than Zone 3. Here is by how much. Each pub is placed in its nearest station’s TfL fare zone (a documented approximation, not an area boundary), then we take the median of every zone’s observed cheapest pint.
- Zone 1£6.20
- Zone 2£5.70
- Zone 3£5.30
- Zone 4£4.95
- Zone 5£4.60
- Zone 6£4.70
The Zone 1 tax over Zone 5 is £1.60.
Zones are each pub’s nearest station’s TfL fare zone (a documented approximation, not an area boundary). Medians use real observed pints; a zone with fewer than 10 priced pubs is held back rather than guessed.
Right, what about your patch?
London’s figures are one thing. What you pay on your own road is another. Pick an area and the map opens on the cheapest pint we have on record there. No sign-up, and we won’t ask where you are.
- Westminster£2.55 cheapest of 137 priced pubs
- Islington£2.49 cheapest of 75 priced pubs
- Camden£3.40 cheapest of 68 priced pubs
- Lambeth£2.83 cheapest of 60 priced pubs
- Southwark£1.99 cheapest of 59 priced pubs
- City of London£2.99 cheapest of 58 priced pubs
- Tower Hamlets£2.66 cheapest of 54 priced pubs
- Wandsworth£2.09 cheapest of 53 priced pubs
Prices and counts from the London pint-price dataset, collected 3 July 2026. Somewhere else in mind? Every borough is here
Borough league table
No borough league yet. The zone strip shows the wider price picture by fare zone. The league only ranks boroughs using dated prices with a public source. Find a pub and log a price.
Download the public snapshot (CSV) ↓Dated editions
This page moves as prices land, which is no use to anyone quoting it. So every closed month also gets its own page, frozen the day it goes up. July 2026 closes on 31 July 2026 and gets one next. Anything logged with a public source and the day it was seen before then lands in it.
Methodology & provenance
Only observations with a public source and observed-at date are published. The legacy map baseline is excluded.
Eligible evidence. Community submissions, a pub or brewery’s own published material, and properly licensed open data may enter the public Index only with a public source URL and observed-at date.
Borough classification. Coordinates are assigned using point-in-polygon against the versioned Greater London boundary artifact. A point outside every polygon remains unclassified; it is never snapped to an arbitrary nearest borough.
Quarantine. The existing map experience may still use a legacy third-party-derived baseline for product continuity. Those rows are excluded from this public, citable Index and from its CSV and structured data.
Freshness. Observation dates come from the evidence record. Build time and file modification time are never presented as when a price was seen.