🍸Cocktail Price in a Bar

How the Raw Value Is Calculated

The raw value is the estimated price of one simple standard cocktail in a normal bar in US dollars per cocktail. It refers to a simple mixed drink such as a gin and tonic, rum and cola, Cuba Libre or comparable house cocktail.

Cocktails have less complete global source coverage than beer, cappuccino or supermarket prices. Where direct public city data is available, Nomadino uses cocktail-price sources such as Expatistan's value for one cocktail drink in a downtown club as a direct anchor. Because these data are city-based and not complete for all 229 Nomadino countries, the raw value is not based on them alone.

For countries and territories without robust direct coverage, Nomadino uses maintained replacement values. These are checked against the existing Nomadino cocktail-price baseline, domestic beer in restaurants, imported beer in markets, wine in markets, inexpensive restaurant meal prices, cappuccino prices, burger-menu prices, regional price levels, alcohol taxes, tourism markups, and national consumer-price and bar-menu sources.

Hotel bars, clubs as premium nightlife, rooftop bars, craft cocktails, premium spirits, bottle service, happy-hour promotions, entry fees, tips, restaurant meals, wine, beer and non-alcoholic soft drinks are not included. Those topics remain separate indicators or are used only as plausibility checks.

The rating uses fixed price anchors. Very cheap standard cocktails up to about USD 3.00 receive 100 points. Between USD 4.00 and USD 10.00, the scale differentiates strongly because many normal bar prices sit there. From about USD 12.50, the rating drops sharply, and very expensive values from about USD 18.00 receive only 1 point.