Saudi Arabia Coffee Prices 2026: Tracker Report Shows Global Green-Bean Costs Falling While Domestic Prices Stay Flat

Cafe operators, roasters and coffee importers searching for current Saudi Arabia coffee prices and global green-bean cost data now have a new monthly resource. Epignosis Insights, a market research and brand intelligence consultancy, has published its Saudi Arabia Specialty Coffee Price Tracker for August 2026, reporting that the ICO Composite Indicator Price averaged 248.90 US cents per pound in June 2026, down 16.2% from January's 296.89 cents, even as Saudi Arabia's domestic consumer price inflation held steady at 1.8% year-on-year across most of the same period.

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How Much Have Global Green Coffee Bean Prices Fallen in 2026?

According to the Epignosis Insights tracker, citing the International Coffee Organization's Coffee Market Report series, the I-CIP opened 2026 at 296.89 cents per pound in January, then fell 9.9% to 267.57 cents in February as global green bean exports rose 12.7% year-on-year. March brought a brief 2.3% rebound to 273.70 cents, attributed to the market weighing rising Strait of Hormuz-linked shipping costs against an improving global supply outlook, before the downward trend reasserted itself: 266.24 cents in April, 256.05 cents in May, and 248.90 cents in June, as Brazil's National Supply Company repeatedly raised its 2026/27 production forecast, ultimately reaching a record 66.7 million bags.

Why Are Colombian Milds Falling Less Than Brazilian Naturals?

The tracker finds a widening divergence beneath the composite average that matters directly for Saudi Arabia's specialty segment, since premium roasters overwhelmingly source Colombian Milds and Other Milds rather than Robusta. In June 2026, Colombian Milds averaged 324.60 cents per pound, up 0.4% on the month, while Other Milds slipped 2.4% to 307.83 cents. Brazilian Naturals fell the hardest, down 7.4% to 272.01 cents, reflecting the weight of Brazil's record harvest, while Robusta gained 1.7% to 169.39 cents on continued strong demand from instant-coffee and blended-format producers navigating elevated Red Sea freight costs.

Why Hasn't Falling Green-Bean Cost Reached Saudi Consumers?

The report identifies a growing gap between Saudi Arabia's stable retail environment and rising pre-retail cost pressure as the central finding of this month's tracker. GASTAT's Consumer Price Index recorded annual inflation of 1.8% in January, easing marginally to 1.7% in February before returning to 1.8% and holding there through June, a six-month band barely a tenth of a percentage point wide. The Wholesale Price Index tells a more revealing story: WPI rose 4.6% year-on-year in May 2026, up from 2.9% in February, evidence that pre-retail cost pressure, including imported inputs like green coffee, packaging and equipment, is building even where retail-facing CPI has stayed flat.

How Much Is Red Sea Freight Disruption Adding to Coffee Costs?

According to Freightos' 2026 shipping outlook cited in the tracker, Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb disruptions that began in late 2023 have kept most container lines on the longer Cape of Good Hope routing for Asia-Europe and Asia-Gulf lanes, adding 10 to 14 days of transit time and, as of mid-2026, still pricing Asia-Europe lanes 25% to 40% above pre-crisis baselines. For Saudi importers bringing green coffee through Jeddah Islamic Port, this freight and insurance premium functions as a cost floor that has not eased in step with the ICO's falling composite price, helping explain why GASTAT's wholesale price data is accelerating even as the underlying commodity benchmark softens. Publicly listed regional operator Americana Restaurants International, in its first-half 2026 results, flagged that higher logistics, insurance and inventory costs could still weigh on margins in the second half of the year even with most 2026 commodity contracts already locked in.

Where to Find Monthly Saudi Arabia Coffee Price Data

The Saudi Arabia Specialty Coffee Price Tracker is published monthly by Epignosis Insights and consolidates pricing signals from the International Coffee Organization, Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics, and maritime-logistics analysis into a single report, with detailed charts on the ICO Composite Price trend and group-level indicator prices, alongside domestic CPI and WPI benchmarking specific to the Kingdom's more than 5,000 specialty cafes. The tracker also monitors the Public Investment Fund's Saudi Coffee Company, which is investing SAR 1.2 billion over ten years to lift domestic Khawlani coffee production from roughly 300 tons annually to a targeted 2,500 tons, a long-run strategic hedge against exactly the kind of freight- and commodity-driven volatility this report documents, even though domestic output will cover only a small fraction of the Kingdom's projected 28,700-tonne annual consumption base. Businesses seeking a recurring, source-triangulated view of Saudi Arabia coffee pricing can access each monthly edition directly from Epignosis Insights.

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