🇬🇷Greece inflation rate

Greece adopted the euro in 2001. Harmonised inflation (HICP) — the EU-wide measure the European Central Bank targets at 2% — stands at 4.9% as of May 2026. That is 2.9 percentage points above the ECB's 2% target, and 1.7 points above the euro-area average of 3.2%.

The breakdown shows core (excluding energy and food) at 3.9%, energy at 20.0%, food at 2.6% and services at 5.7%. The strongest pressure is in energy (20.0%), while food is the softest (2.6%).

Month on month the headline rose from 4.6% to 4.9%, extending the climb.