At Madrid's central wholesale market, Mercamadrid, the average price of pomegranates from October to December 2025 was €1.86 per kilo, 68.4% higher than in the same months of 2019, according to a Wikifarmer analysis of the City of Madrid's open data. At the Athens Central Market the pomegranate price averaged €1.30 per kilo from 15 October to 5 November 2026, against €0.84 in the same weeks of 2020, and in Thessaloniki this year's price is lower than last year's but higher than in 2024.
In Madrid the October to December price passed €1.80 per kilo in 2024 and 2025
The average price of pomegranates at Mercamadrid from October to December, weighted by the quantities sold, was €1.11 per kilo in 2019, €1.23 in 2020, €1.32 in 2021, €1.38 in 2022 and €1.33 in 2023, before rising to €1.80 in 2024 and €1.86 in 2025. In the same months the market handled between 2,034 tonnes, in 2022, and 2,989 tonnes, in 2021, and 2025 had 2,612 tonnes, almost the same as 2019 with 2,607 tonnes, so the price rise did not coincide with a smaller quantity on the market. Prices are in euros and are not adjusted for inflation.
Almost all the pomegranates sold in Madrid from October to December were Spanish: 100% in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, 96.0% in 2021, 98.5% in 2024 and 96.7% in 2025. From 2019 to September 2026 the largest region of origin was Alicante, with 20,829 tonnes, followed by Murcia, with 5,749 tonnes. From September 2025 to August 2026 imported pomegranates came mainly from Turkey, with 612 tonnes, followed by Peru with 356 tonnes and Israel with 77 tonnes.
Source: Wikifarmer analysis of the City of Madrid's open data (Mercamadrid monthly volumes and prices) and of the OKAA and KATH price bulletins. The three markets report different kinds of price, which are not comparable with each other.
The new season started in Madrid with a lower price than last year
In September 2026, the first month of the season, the average price of pomegranates at Mercamadrid was €2.01 per kilo, 15.7% lower than the €2.39 of September 2025 and also lower than the €2.27 of September 2024. This September's price is still higher than every September from 2019 to 2023, when it ranged from €1.46 to €1.85 per kilo. The quantity was 374 tonnes, against 521 tonnes in September 2025, all of Spanish origin as in every September since 2019.
Source: Wikifarmer analysis of the City of Madrid's open data (Mercamadrid monthly volumes and prices). The October price was €1.09 per kilo in 2019 and €1.82 in 2025.
In Athens and Thessaloniki 2026 prices are higher than in the first years of the data
In the price bulletins of the Athens Central Market (OKAA) the most frequent price of pomegranates from 15 October to 5 November averaged €0.84 per kilo in 2020, €0.91 in 2021, €0.97 in 2022, €1.02 in 2023, €1.28 in 2024, €1.20 in 2025 and €1.30 in 2026, 53.9% higher than in 2020. This year pomegranates first appeared in the bulletins on 21 September; the price was €1.40 per kilo from 22 September to 6 October and €1.30 in every bulletin from 8 October to 5 November.
At the Central Market of Thessaloniki (KATH) the dominant price of pomegranates from 1 October to 2 November averaged €1.24 per kilo in 2024, €1.70 in 2025, when it stayed at the same level in every bulletin, and €1.54 in 2026, 9.2% lower than last year and 24.5% higher than in 2024. In the latest bulletin, on 2 November 2026, the price was €1.40 per kilo. Both markets quote prices to the nearest ten cents, so small differences from year to year carry little weight.
The prices matter to pomegranate growers and wholesale buyers
In Madrid and Athens the wholesale price of pomegranates in recent years has been well above the first years of the data, while in Thessaloniki, with data only from 2024, this year's price sits between the two previous years. The picture matters to growers in Alicante and Murcia, who supply most of the Spanish market, to growers in every country who sell pomegranates through wholesale markets, and to the traders and shops that buy from these markets, while other countries also grow and export pomegranates, as pomegranate production and exports in Kandahar, Afghanistan show.
In the coming weeks the OKAA and KATH bulletins will show whether the price stays around €1.30 and €1.40, while Mercamadrid's prices for October to December 2026 will come with the City of Madrid's next update. For other fruit of the same period, citrus prices fall from November to Christmas in most years.
The three markets report different kinds of price
The analysis is by Wikifarmer, based on Mercamadrid's monthly volume and price data from the City of Madrid's open data portal (2019 to September 2026) and on the daily price bulletins of the Athens Central Market (OKAA, data from 15 October 2020) and the Central Market of Thessaloniki (KATH, data from 21 August 2024). At Mercamadrid the price is the most frequent selling price from each origin, weighted by quantity, while OKAA gives the most frequent and KATH the dominant price of each bulletin, so price levels in the three markets are not comparable with each other. The Athens and Thessaloniki averages are averages of the prices in the bulletins issued in each period, six to nine bulletins in Athens and 21 to 23 in Thessaloniki each year, and the KATH prices are for pomegranates without the import label. OKAA does not state the origin of pomegranates in its bulletin. Mercamadrid's 2020 file repeats December three times, and it was counted once. Prices are not adjusted for inflation, and the analysis does not examine the causes of the rise. All figures were recomputed independently from the original files. They describe what prices did and are not a forecast.
Sources
- Ayuntamiento de Madrid. (2026). Mercamadrid, volumen y precio de productos comercializados. City of Madrid open data portal.
- Central Markets and Fisheries Organisation (OKAA). (2026). Price bulletins (in Greek).
- Central Market of Thessaloniki (KATH). (2026). Fruit and vegetable price bulletins (in Greek).
