October 20263,5%Compared with the same month last year
All items3,5%
Last 12 months
October 20263,5%
September 20263,6%
August 20262,9%
July 20262,7%
June 20263,2%
May 20263,7%
April 20263,4%
March 20263,2%
February 20262,3%
January 20262,1%
December 20253,8%
November 20254,0%
October 20254,0%
Comparison with other European countries · October 2026
1. Malta2,3%2. Germany2,8%3. Slovakia2,9%4. Latvia3,0%5. Netherlands3,3%6. Finland3,4%7. Austria3,5%8. Estonia3,6%9. France3,8%10. Slovenia3,8%11. Portugal3,9%12. Ireland4,0%13. Croatia4,4%14. Spain4,9%15. Luxembourg4,9%16. Belgium5,2%17. Cyprus5,4%18. Greece5,6%19. Italy5,6%20. Bulgaria6,0%21. Lithuania6,1%
Questions and answers
What is the inflation rate?
3,5% (October 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).