Green coffee prices in euros per kilo

Short answer. On 15 September 2026 the ICE arabica front month was 283.65 US cents a pound, which at the European Central Bank's reference rate of 1.1539 is €5.42 a kilo of exchange-grade green. That was 30.7% below a year earlier, and well down from the record 440.85 cents in February 2025 (€8.42 a kilo at today's rate). What you pay is that number plus the differential, freight and import costs — and once roasted, divided by about 0.85.

Prices checked 15 September 2026: ICE arabica front month from Trading Economics, euro rate from the ECB. The market moves daily; check both before you quote anyone.

The converter

Enter a C price in cents and the euro rate of the day. The last row is the one that matters to a roastery: what a kilo of that coffee costs once it has lost weight in the drum.

What the C price is, and what it is not

The C price is a futures contract for washed arabica of exchange quality, delivered to a licensed warehouse, quoted in US cents per pound. It is a benchmark and a hedging instrument. Almost nobody buys their actual coffee at it.

A real invoice from an importer is the C price plus or minus a differential for that lot — its origin, quality, certification and preparation — and then freight, insurance, duty where it applies, storage, financing and the importer's margin. A specialty lot bought on a fixed price agreed with the producer may sit far above the C price and stay there while the market moves underneath it. That is the point of a fixed price.

So the C price is useful to a roastery in three ways: it explains what your importer is about to tell you, it tells you which direction the next contract is likely to move, and it is the number your cafés will have read about in the news.

From cents a pound to euros a kilo

Three steps, in this order:

• Cents to dollars per pound — divide by 100.
• Pounds to kilos — divide by 0.45359237, the pound in kilograms.
• Dollars to euros — divide by the euro to dollar rate.

At 283.65 cents and a rate of 1.1539: 283.65 ÷ 100 = $2.8365 a pound, ÷ 0.4536 = $6.25 a kilo, ÷ 1.1539 = €5.42 a kilo. Two things move that figure, and one of them has nothing to do with coffee: a euro that strengthens against the dollar makes the same C price cheaper in Europe, and a euro that weakens makes it dearer. A roastery that buys in dollars is carrying a currency position whether it thinks of it that way or not.

What each price level means per roasted kilo

At the euro rate of 15 September 2026, with €2.00 a kilo added for a differential and landed costs, and 15% roast loss.

The span of that table is the story of the last two years. Between the 440.85 cent record of February 2025 and the 283.65 cents of 15 September 2026, the green in a roasted kilo moved by about €3.00 — before anyone changed a price list.

Where the market has been

Arabica set a record of 440.85 cents in February 2025, then fell through 2026: down 10.8% in the month to 15 September 2026 and 30.7% on the year. The fall has not been steady. There was a low in early June 2026 after Brazil's record crop, a rally in August on certified stocks near their lowest in decades, and a fall again into September.

Two things are worth holding on to. First, a falling market does not mean falling costs for a roastery this quarter, because the coffee being roasted now was bought months ago — the guide to cutting prices works through what to do when a café asks. Second, low certified stocks and weather risk in Brazil mean the direction can reverse quickly, which is an argument for contracting rather than for waiting.

What to do with the number

• Reprice from your own contracts, not from the headline. The C price tells you what your next contract may cost, not what this week's coffee cost.
• Quote a price list with a date it holds until. That is how a moving market stops becoming an argument with a café. The price list template has the line for it.
• Know your own pass-through rule before you need it: a fixed cash margin per kilo, a percentage margin, or a review at fixed dates. Write it down once and apply it both ways.
• Watch the euro as well as the coffee. A 5% currency move is worth about €0.27 a kilo at today's price, which is the size of a small price rise.
• Talk about it before your cafés read about it. A café that hears "coffee prices have crashed" on the radio and nothing from you is a café forming its own theory.

Questions roasters ask

What is the C price of coffee?

The C price is the price of a pound of washed arabica traded on the ICE futures market in New York, quoted in US cents. It is the benchmark the trade prices against, not a price anyone pays for a specific coffee. What a roastery pays is the C price plus or minus a differential for that lot, plus freight, import costs and the importer's margin — or, for many specialty coffees, a fixed price agreed with the producer that ignores the C price entirely.

How do you convert cents per pound to euros per kilo?

Divide the cents figure by 100 to get dollars per pound, divide by 0.4536 to get dollars per kilo, then divide by the euro to dollar rate. At 283.65 cents and a rate of 1.1539, that is $2.8365 a pound, $6.25 a kilo, €5.42 a kilo.

Why is my green coffee more expensive than the C price?

Because the C price is green coffee in a warehouse somewhere, at exchange quality, before anything happens to it. Your price adds the differential for the actual lot, ocean freight, insurance, duty where it applies, storage, the importer's margin, and the cost of splitting a container into bags you can buy. A specialty coffee bought on a fixed price from a named producer may be far above the C price and may not move with it at all.

Does a falling C price mean I should cut my wholesale prices?

Not automatically, and not on the day it falls. The coffee in your warehouse was bought months ago at the price of that day, and freight, packaging and labour have not fallen with the market. Work it out from your own cost per roasted kilo, decide, and if you do move, date the change to the arrival of the cheaper contract.

How much does a 10 cent move in the C price change my cost per kilo?

About 19 cents a kilo of green at a euro rate of 1.1539, which is about 23 cents per roasted kilo once you allow 15% roast loss. On a café's 18 g double espresso that is well under half a cent.

Where Order Book fits

Order Book does not buy green, hold contracts or track the market. What it does with these numbers is downstream: each coffee can carry its green price and roast loss, so insights show the margin on every coffee and every client at the prices you actually charge. When the cost does change, a price change is written once with a start date, and each café is told its own new prices before that date rather than discovering them on an invoice.

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