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Enter what you spend each month on food, housing and energy, transport and everything else, and see the increase that matches your own basket using the official price indices.
The inflation figure in the news is a national average. Your basket has different weights: if you , housing matters to you far more than average, and if you have no car, transport matters less.
The (harmonised index of consumer prices) measures how prices moved against the same month a year earlier. Eurostat publishes it per category for each country through an open API that needs no key.
The tool reads the annual rate for food, housing and energy, transport and the all-items index, then weights them with the amounts you enter. The relation is simple: each category costs today what it cost a year ago times (1 + rate).
A 1,000 € monthly basket: 350 € food, 450 € housing and energy, 150 € transport, 50 € other. At rates of 3.8%, 3.9%, 1.8% and 2.9%, the same basket cost about 962 € a year ago; the difference, about 38 € a month, is a personal rate near 3.9% — above the headline index, if your basket is heavy in housing.
Because the announced index is an average weighted for the average household. If a larger share of your income goes to housing and food, which rise faster, your own figure comes out higher.
The Eurostat harmonised index of consumer prices for Greece, by category, from the open API. The reference month always appears in the result.
No. It compares today's basket with the same basket a year ago, using the published rates.
Your own rate of increase
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