The price of pasta drops -23.7% in two years

Food price lists are increasing but not for everything: the average price of pasta, in fact, after the flare-up recorded starting from 2022 with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, has recorded a drop of 23.7% in two years and now stands on average at 1.59 euros per kg. The calculations are done by the Consumption Training and Research Center (Crc) which, on the occasion of tomorrow's World Pasta Day, has created a report in collaboration with Assoutenti based on Istat and Mimit data, analyzing retail price lists in the various Italian cities.

In 2023, record peaks with the average cost of a kilo of durum wheat semolina pasta at 2.13 euros, with peaks of 2.4 euros.

In December 2025, in fact, the average price of a 1 kg pack of pasta in Italy was 1.63 euros and between January and September, according to Istat data, pasta prices fell further by -2.3%.

On the retail price list front, however, there are strong differences across the territory - warns Assoutenti - Based on the latest data published by the Mimit Observatory, in fact, the city with the highest price of pasta was Udine, on average 1.91 euros per kg, followed by Pescara (1.89 euros) and Cagliari (1.88 euros).

On the opposite side of the ranking, the cheapest province was Syracuse, where a kilo of spaghetti or penne cost an average of 1.10 euros, followed by Palermo (1.13 euros) and Messina (1.19 euros).

"From the report it emerges that in general Sicily, Calabria and Campania are the regions that boast the lowest prices, while Marche, Friuli and Veneto are those with the highest prices on average. Differences that fully reflect the trend of Italian consumption: prices are significantly lower in the southern regions, i.e. those where the per capita consumption of pasta is higher, and where almost 70% of citizens eat pasta every day" - comments the president of the scientific committee of the Crc, Furio Truzzi.