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Daily Record
a day ago
- Business
- Daily Record
Scotland's 'cheapest and most expensive' places for a pint named
Prices for a drink vary wildly across the country. New research has revealed the average price of a pint in locations around Scotland. Both the cheapest and most expensive destinations around the country were named. With summer in full swing, people around Scotland will be looking to head to their nearest beer garden and enjoy a drink in the sun. However, the price of a pint can vary wildly across the country. To help show where beer is the most and least affordable, Online Marketing Surgery and MG Timber have created the Pint Report. The report looks looks at areas in Scotland with the highest and lowest prices for a pint. Four different destinations in Scotland all place joint-first as the cheapest place for a pint in the country. The average cost in Bathgate, Dumfries, Oban, and Stevenston was found to be £3. Rounding out the top five most affordable areas in Scotland for a drink is Kilmarnock. According to the experts, the average cost of a pint in the East Ayrshire town is £3.25. On the other hand, the priciest place for a pint in Scotland was revealed as Edinburgh. The experts found that the average cost of a pint in the Scottish capital is £5.50. Four other locations in Scotland all place joint-second on the list of most expensive destinations in the country for a drink. According to the report, the cost of a pint in Annan, Glasgow, Inverness, and Livingston was found to be £5. Elsewhere, the most expensive place in the whole of the UK for a drink was found to be Witney in Oxfordshire. According to the Pint Report, the average cost of a pint in the market town is £7. Meanwhile, the cheapest place in the UK for a pint according to the Pint Report is Arun in West Sussex. Pints in the local government district were revealed to cost an average of just £2. The Pint Report states: "As the cost of living continues to be a hot topic across the UK, one of the simplest pleasures, enjoying a pint at your local pub, is feeling the impact." It continues: "In response to growing public interest in price disparities across the country, we have teamed up with MG Timber, a UK manufacturer of handcrafted pub benches and outdoor furniture, to launch the Pint Report. The report ranks the cheapest and most expensive towns and cities to buy a pint of beer, revealing striking regional differences in cost." To put together the report, the experts collated the average price of a pint in cities and towns across Scotland and the UK. To do this, they used data from cost of living database Numbeo. See below for the full lists of the cheapest and priciest destinations in Scotland for a pint. More information can be found on the Online Marketing Surgery website. Top five cheapest areas in Scotland for a pint Bathgate £3 Dumfries £3 Oban £3 Stevenston £3 Kilmarnock £3.25 Top five most expensive areas in Scotland for a pint Edinburgh £5.50 Annan £5 Glasgow £5 Inverness £5 Livingston £5 Article continues below
Scotsman
a day ago
- Business
- Scotsman
Scottish Pint Prices 2025: Here are the 10 most and least expensive places in Scotland to get a pint
New research has revealed that the price of a pint in Scotland varies hugely depending on where you are drinking. Online Marketing Surgery has teamed up with pub furniture company MG Timber, to crunch the numbers using the latest data from Numbeo to discover the places with the cheapest average rounds. Across the UK, it found that Arun in West Sussex was the cheapest, with a remarkable average price of a pint being just £2. Meanwhile the most expensive, at an eye-watering £7, was in Whitney in Oxfordshire. Here's which Scottish towns and cities placed in the pint prices league table. 1 . West Lothian We're starting with the most inexpensive places in Scotland to raise a glass. Located in West Lothian, and handily placed near the M8 motorway, Bathgate is the joint cheapest place in Scotland for a pint - costing an average of just £3 according to research. | Google Maps Photo Sales 2 . Dumfries Pretty Dumfries, just 25 miles from the English border, also averages a £3 pint. | Canva/Getty Images Photo Sales 3 . Oban The third of four Scottish settlements where you can expect to bag a pint for £3 is Oban. The coastal resort town is quiet during the winter, but in the summer months a temporary population of up to 24,000 people arrive each year. | Canva/Getty Images Photo Sales 4 . Stevenston The North Ayrshire town of Stevenston also offers good value for money when it comes to a tipple - again averaging £3 a pint. Along with neighbouring Ardrossan and Saltcoats, it is one of the 'Three Towns' sitting on the Firth of Clyde coast. | Google Maps Photo Sales
