Pint Index

London pint prices by borough and fare zone

Zone 1's median cheapest pint is £6.25. Zone 5's is £4.60.

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How much of our pub list has a price?

959 of the 2,033 pubs in our London pub list have a pint price on record (47%).

Includes our pub price list and published menus. The total is our pub list, not every pub in London. These are listed prices, not a promise of today’s price. Each pub counts once per drink.

Pints
959of 2,033 pubs
Coffee
14of 2,033 pubs
Alcohol-free
58of 2,033 pubs
Wine
75of 2,033 pubs
Cocktails
75of 2,033 pubs
Soft drinks
38of 2,033 pubs

These counts are separate from the borough league and its CSV. Cafés are outside this pub count. The map’s coffee list counts them separately. The default pint colours can use published prices from our pub price list. Other drink colours need prices confirmed by more than one drinker.

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By fare zone

A pint in Zone 1 costs more than Zone 3. Here’s how much more. 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 listed cheapest pint.

  1. Zone 1£6.25
  2. Zone 2£5.70
  3. Zone 3£5.35
  4. Zone 4£4.90
  5. Zone 5£4.60
  6. Zone 6£4.70

The Zone 1 tax over Zone 5 is £1.65.

Zone 6 reads dearer than Zone 5. They are the thinnest samples here: 45 and 51 priced pubs.

Each zone figure is the median of the cheapest recorded pint price for pubs assigned to that zone. Assignment uses each pub’s nearest station’s TfL fare zone. A figure appears after 10 priced pubs.

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.

Prices and counts from the London pint-price dataset, with records from 2 October 2026. Somewhere else in mind? Every borough is here

The borough list shows listed prices from our London pub list. The dated public edition of the borough league is not ready yet.

Borough coverage

These lines count corroborated people-logged pints only. Grey pins still mean nobody else has backed up that price yet.

Every borough here needs 20 more corroborated pints this month.

Against the national figures

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.

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. November 2026 closes on 30 November 2026 and gets one next. Eligible prices dated before then can enter it.

Method and sources

Only prices with a public source and date are published. Older map-only prices stay out.

What counts. 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 price date.

Boroughs. We place coordinates inside versioned Greater London boundary shapes. A point outside every shape gets no borough. We never assign it to an arbitrary nearby one.

What stays out. The map may still use an older price baseline. Those rows stay out of this public Index, its CSV and its structured data.

Dates. Price dates come from the source record. We never present build time or file modification time as when a price was seen.

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