Dublin – European coffee shop capital

Dublin is the most caffeinated capital in Europe, finds a new study.

 

 

The study, carried out by sleep experts Eachnight.com, sought the number of coffee shops, cafés and tea rooms in each European capital and compared it with the number of people living in each city.

Dublin “indisputably” comes out top, states Eachnight.com, with 232 cafés present in the area and a population of 525,383 which translates to 442 cafés per million people.

Similarly Athens, in second place, registers 264 coffee shops for a population of 664,046 which offers 398 coffee and tea rooms per million people.

Prague comes third, which counts the most cafés of the top five at 448, however its large population of 1.4 million only gives it 336 cafés per million people.

After Lisbon with 314 cafés per million, Reykjavik comes in fifth with the Icelandic capital only sporting 41 cafés, but when compared to the small population of 131,136, works out at 313 cafés per million people.

London comes in in 14^th place with 1,585 cafés, “a number that pales compared to the whopping 8,961,989 inhabitants that live in the UK capital. Because of this, there are only 176 coffee shops per million people”.

 

Top 30 most caffeinated European capitals
	Country	Capital	Population	Number of cafés	Cafés per million people
1	Ireland	Dublin	525,383	232	441.58
2	Greece	Athens	664,046	264	397.56
3	Czech Republic	Prague	1,335,084	448	335.56
4	Portugal	Lisbon	544,851	171	313.85
5	Iceland	Reykjavik	131,136	41	312.65
6	Italy	Rome	2,645,907	684	258.51
7	Netherlands	Amsterdam	820,654	189	230.30
8	Denmark	Copenhagen	799,033	174	217.76
9	Finland	Helsinki	564,474	112	198.41
10	Hungary	Budapest	1,752,286	342	195.17
11	Germany	Berlin	3,769,495	693	183.84
12	Switzerland	Bern	125,681	23	183.00
13	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	275,524	50	181.47
14	United Kingdom	London	8,961,989	1,585	176.86
15	Slovakia	Bratislava	633,806	110	173.55
16	Austria	Vienna	1,731,236	287	165.78
17	Estonia	Tallinn	437,619	71	162.24
18	Spain	Madrid	3,233,527	498	154.01
19	Slovenia	Ljubljana	295,504	45	152.28
20	Sweden	Stockholm	975,819	145	148.59
21	France	Paris	2,244,000	287	127.90
22	Latvia	Riga	699,203	81	115.85
23	Norway	Oslo	698,660	73	104.49
24	Lithuania	Vilnius	588,412	52	88.37
25	Croatia	Zagreb	792,875	70	88.29
26	Romania	Bucharest	1,883,425	162	86.01
27	Albania	Tirana	421,286	36	85.45
28	Poland	Warsaw	1,794,166	137	76.36
29	Ukraine	Kiev	2,962,180	219	73.93
30	Serbia	Belgrade	1,166,763	84	71.99

“It’s interesting to see how, regardless of the large numbers of coffee shops present in a given capital, its population and therefore the demand for these services makes or breaks the list, putting cities like London and Rome in lower places because of the large number of people who live in them,” said Jasmin Lee for Eachnight.com in commenting on the findings,

“It’s obvious by now that coffee is a daily necessity for many people and this data gives an idea of which European cities can’t get through the day without it, with many smaller cities seemingly consuming the most.

“It’s fascinating to see how varied the top 10 entries are and that Italy, the pioneer of the Espresso machine, does not even sit in the top three.”

The data was sourced from TripAdvisor.

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