Cod prices: questions and answers
Cod: median wholesale price 16.1 EUR/kg across 8 markets in 5 countries, quotes to 10 November 2026. Answers calculated from current market quotes on Husfarm and FAOSTAT data.
What is the wholesale price of cod today?
The median wholesale price of cod was 16.1 EUR/kg across 29 current quotes on 8 markets in 5 countries (latest quote 10 November 2026). Half of the quotes were between 13.00 and 18.20 EUR/kg.
Each quote is the midpoint of the lowest and highest price the market published, converted to euros per kilogram at the day’s reference rate. Quotes per piece or per pack without a weight are left out of this figure.
How do prices differ between types of cod?
| Type | Quotes | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Type not stated | 19 | 16.0 EUR/kg |
| Fillet | 3 | 14.5 EUR/kg |
| Frozen | 3 | 12.3 EUR/kg |
Types are read from the names the markets publish, so that a comparison puts like with like. Quotes whose name gives no type are kept together.
What is the price of cod in different countries?
| Country | Markets | Median, EUR/kg | Median, local currency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 15.4 EUR/kg | — |
| Italy | 2 | 17.0 EUR/kg | — |
| China | 1 | 1.90 EUR/kg | 14.2 CNY/kg |
| France | 1 | 16.1 EUR/kg | — |
| Poland | 1 | 10.6 EUR/kg | 46.5 PLN/kg |
Countries with the most markets quoting cod; medians of the latest quote of each series.
Are prices of cod going up or down?
At the latest publication compared with the previous one, 2 of 15 quotes for cod rose, 0 fell and 13 were unchanged; the median change was 0.0%.
Each market is compared with its own previous quote for the same series, so the figure is not affected by which markets published on a given day. Markets publish daily, weekly or less often, so the comparison covers different periods for different markets.
Which markets publish cod prices?
8 markets in 5 countries have current cod quotes on Husfarm. Those with the most quotes:
- MIN Rungis France · 7 quotes
- Mercados de Abastecimientos de Barcelona SA Spain · 6 quotes
- Mercamadrid Spain · 5 quotes
- Rome Wholesale Market Italy · 4 quotes
- Mercabilbao Spain · 3 quotes
- Milan Wholesale Market Italy · 2 quotes
- Suzhou Nanhuan Bridge Market China · 1 quote
- Elizówka Lublin Wholesale Market Poland · 1 quote
Why are there so many different cod prices?
Markets publish a separate price for each variety, grade, size, origin and pack. Husfarm shows 27 different cod quote names, for example: Cod (cod loin); Cod croquettes frozen; Cod cheeks; Atlantic cod, Wild-caught, fresh, GADUS MORHUA, North-east Atlantic; Cocochas cod; Atlantic cod fillets, Fresh, wild-caught, Gadus morhua, northeast Atlantic, North Sea.
Compare like with like: the same market and series over time, or the same type across markets. How to read a wholesale quote
Where do these cod prices come from?
Husfarm reads the price bulletins and tables that markets, exchanges and official price reports publish, keeps each price in the market’s own currency and unit with its date and source, and converts it to euros per kilogram for comparison.
How often are cod prices updated?
The latest cod quote is from 10 November 2026; 2 of 8 markets published cod prices in the seven days to 10 November 2026. Each market publishes on its own schedule, from daily to monthly.
Can I get alerts or download cod prices?
Yes. You can set an e-mail alert for cod prices on a market or across markets, and download the current quotes and their history as CSV files free of charge.
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Prices: market quotes collected by Husfarm, as published by each market; conversions at ECB and market reference rates. Production and trade: FAO, FAOSTAT (CC BY 4.0). Answers are calculated automatically from the current data and change when the data changes.