Munich: Germany's most expensive Big Mac, by a wide margin
Munich consistently posts Germany's highest Big Mac price. Bavaria has the strongest regional economy in Germany — BMW, Siemens, Allianz, and a deep mid-sized industrial base — and Munich rent is among the highest in continental Europe outside Switzerland. The combination drives a burger price that runs 10-15% above Berlin.
Munich's intra-Germany premium is the cleanest single illustration of why the eurozone is not a uniform price area. Same currency, same McDonald's franchise rules, same beef-supply chain — but Munich and Leipzig are pricing for very different real economies. The Munich-Berlin spread has stayed wide for the entire 15-year history of the index, even as Berlin has caught up; Munich keeps moving ahead. Watch this as the long-run benchmark for how a single eurozone country can host two materially different price levels.