Official data · Eurostat HICP

What is getting more expensive?

Price changes over the past year in Portugal, September 2026, across 87 categories of household spending.

Country

All items

+3.6%

over a year

Food, alcohol & tobacco

+2.3%

over a year

Energy

+17.0%

over a year

Services

+4.0%

over a year

Goods excl. energy & food

+0.5%

over a year

Rising fastest

Items with the largest price increases, Portugal
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment	+30.3%	3.3%
Jewellery and watches	+12.9%	0.8%
Fish and other seafood	+10.3%	2.8%
Package holidays	+8.5%	0.5%
Newspapers and periodicals	+7.5%	0.2%
Maintenance and repair of personal transport equipment	+7.4%	2.5%
Domestic services and household services	+7.0%	1.0%
Restaurants, cafés and the like	+6.8%	10.4%
Repair, installation and hire of household appliances	+6.3%	0.2%
Early childhood and primary education	+6.3%	0.4%

Rising slowest or falling

Items with the smallest price increases or falls, Portugal
Item	Change over a year	Weight
Mobile communication services	−5.4%	1.1%
Shoes and other footwear	−4.8%	1.1%
Sporting, camping and open-air recreation equipment	−4.3%	0.1%
Major electric and other household appliances	−3.3%	0.6%
Other services related to personal transport equipment	−2.3%	1.3%
Household textiles	−2.2%	0.4%
Bicycles	−2.1%	0.1%
Coffee and coffee substitutes	−1.7%	0.3%
Equipment for the reception, recording and reproduction of sound and vision	−1.7%	0.2%
Photographic and cinematographic equipment and optical instruments	−1.7%	0.2%

Source: Eurostat HICP, annual rate of change by ECOICOP class (prc_hicp_minr) and item weights for 2026 (prc_hicp_iw). Weight = share of the average household's spending. Categories under 0.1% of spending are left out so that tiny items with volatile prices do not crowd the lists. Red: prices up; blue: prices down.