Fast food price insights
What the drive-thru really costs: prices from 212 fast food restaurants in Portugal across 1 chains, checked 2026-10-05. Every figure below compares each restaurant's own pickup price from the brand's ordering app, so the numbers are what you would actually pay at the window.
Data as of . Updated daily. Prices are in euros.
Key findings
- Burger King has the biggest price gap between locations: its priciest restaurant charges 37% more than its cheapest for the same basket. Burger King has the smallest gap, 37%.
- Coimbra, 06 is the biggest cluster of bargain fast food in Portugal: 4 of its 4 restaurants rank in their brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
- Castelo Branco is the cheapest district for fast food overall (Drive Thru Index 98, where 100 is the national typical price) and Azores the most expensive (103), averaging each brand against its own national prices.
- A Burger King Whopper costs anywhere from €5.90 to €9.25 across 212 restaurants in Portugal; the typical price is €6.55.
- Castelo Branco is the cheapest district for Burger King and Azores the priciest, comparing the same basket of 5 items at 207 restaurants.
- For Burger King, Porto, 13 has the most bargain restaurants: 2 of 11 are in the brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
Cheapest to most expensive districts
Each district's Drive Thru Index score averages every brand's typical basket there against that brand's own national typical price, so 100 is the national norm, 90 is 10% cheaper and 120 is 20% pricier. Brands are never compared with each other.
| Rank | District | Index | vs national | Brands | Restaurants compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Castelo Branco | 98 | -2% | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Setúbal | 98 | -2% | 1 | 18 |
| 3 | Coimbra | 98 | -2% | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Santarém | 98 | -2% | 1 | 10 |
| 5 | Leiria | 99 | -1% | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | Porto | 100 | +0% | 1 | 49 |
| 7 | Braga | 100 | +0% | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Aveiro | 100 | +0% | 1 | 14 |
| 9 | Lisbon | 100 | +0% | 1 | 43 |
| 10 | Faro | 103 | +3% | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | Madeira | 103 | +3% | 1 | 5 |
| 12 | Azores | 103 | +3% | 1 | 6 |
Bargain clusters
Where cheap fast food clusters: the places with the most restaurants whose basket ranks in their own brand's cheapest fifth nationally. Each brand is judged against itself, never against another brand's prices.
| City, all brands | Bargain restaurants | Restaurants compared | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coimbra, 06 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| Leiria, 10 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| Torres Vedras, 11 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Loures, 11 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Santarém, 14 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Brand | Top bargain cities | Top bargain districts |
|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Porto, 13 (2 of 11), Lisboa, 11 (1 of 16) | 11 (16 of 43), 13 (12 of 49), 15 (9 of 18) |
By brand
| Brand | Restaurants | Item | Typical price | Range | Cheapest district | Priciest district | Gap between locations | Delivery vs pickup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | 212 | Whopper | €6.55 | €5.90 to €9.25 | Castelo Branco | Azores | 37% | — |
Questions people ask
- How much does a Burger King Whopper cost in Portugal?
- As of 2026-10-05, a Whopper costs €5.90 to €9.25 at 212 Burger King restaurants, with a typical price of €6.55.
- Where is Burger King cheapest in Portugal?
- Castelo Branco has the cheapest typical Burger King basket and Azores the most expensive (Drive Thru Index, 2026-10-05). The single cheapest restaurant is in Torres Vedras, 11.
How the index works
Every day we check the menu at every US restaurant of each chain, using the same ordering app its customers use, and record each item's pickup and delivery price. Restaurants are compared on a basket of items that every full-menu restaurant of that brand sells, so a comparison is never skewed by a missing item. Restaurants with a limited menu, and prices that are clearly a menu code error, are left out of comparisons. "Typical" means the median restaurant.
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Citing this data: Source: Drive Thru Index (https://drivethruindex.com), prices checked 2026-10-05. Journalists are welcome to quote any figure on this page.