Volume of retail trade down by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU

Up by 0.7% in the euro area and by 1.2% in the EU compared with June 2025

Overview

In June 2026, compared with May 2026, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.1% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In May 2026, retail trade volume grew by 0.4% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU.

In June 2026, compared with June 2025, the calendar adjusted retail sales index increased by 0.7% in the euro area and by 1.2% in the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in June 2026, compared with May 2026, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.5%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.4%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.5%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.4%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.3%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.7%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Finland (-1.5%), Romania (-1.2%) and Germany (-1.1%). The highest increases were observed in Luxembourg (+2.5%), Portugal (+1.7%), Croatia and Sweden (both +1.5%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in June 2026, compared with June 2025, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.9%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 1.7%,
decreased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 6.6%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.7%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.3%,
decreased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 4.1%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Luxembourg (+8.3%), Sweden (+7.2%) and Bulgaria (+7.1%). Decreases were observed in Romania (-6.6%), Austria (-0.3%), Belgium and Germany (both -0.1%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Jan-26	Feb-26	Mar-26	Apr-26	May-26	Jun-26
Euro area
Total retail trade	0.2	-0.5	0.9	-0.4	0.4	-0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.7	-0.5	-0.1	0.8	0.4	-0.5
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.1	-0.4	1.6	-0.5	0.5	-0.4
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-1.1	0.1	1.0	-3.6	-1.8	1.5
EU
Total retail trade	0.2	-0.6	1.2	-0.6	0.6	-0.1
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.4	-0.5	0.1	0.5	0.4	-0.4
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.1	-0.5	1.9	-0.9	0.9	-0.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	-1.3	0.7	1.7	-3.1	-1.4	1.7
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Jan-26	Feb-26	Mar-26	Apr-26	May-26	Jun-26
Euro area	0.2	-0.5	0.9	-0.4	0.4	-0.3
EU	0.2	-0.6	1.2	-0.6	0.6	-0.1
Belgium	-0.2	-0.4	3.6	-1.8	-0.7	0.8
Bulgaria	-0.4	2.2	1.3	-1.0	0.7	0.5
Czechia	1.0	-0.2	1.6	-1.2	1.3	c
Denmark	0.2	-0.5	4.3	-5.1	3.3	0.0
Germany	0.1	-0.3	0.1	-0.3	1.2	-1.1
Estonia	4.2	-0.4	0.0	-1.5	-2.3	0.9
Ireland	-0.1	0.5	0.8	-0.8	0.5	0.4
Greece	0.7	1.4	-0.5	-1.5	3.3	c
Spain	-0.1	0.0	1.1	-1.5	0.6	0.3
France	0.5	-1.1	0.7	0.5	-0.1	-0.5
Croatia	-1.3	0.0	0.5	-0.2	-2.0	1.5
Italy	0.3	-0.1	0.5	-0.1	-0.3	0.2
Cyprus	-1.2	0.7	0.6	-0.9	3.7	-1.0
Latvia	3.3	-2.2	-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.7
Lithuania	0.2	-2.0	3.6	2.4	-1.0	0.3
Luxembourg	-2.3	-3.5	1.4	-4.7	4.6	2.5
Hungary	0.5	0.3	1.8	-1.2	0.7	-0.3
Malta	-0.4	2.2	-1.5	0.7	0.7	0.0
Netherlands	0.2	-0.1	1.4	-0.3	-0.1	0.4
Austria	-0.2	-0.5	0.2	0.0	0.2	-0.4
Poland	0.4	-2.2	2.9	-1.5	2.4	1.4
Portugal	0.7	-0.7	2.6	-0.6	-0.3	1.7
Romania	-3.2	0.5	2.0	-2.5	0.8	-1.2
Slovenia	-1.2	-1.5	5.4	-1.1	0.1	-0.2
Slovakia	-1.4	0.2	2.6	-1.8	0.0	0.4
Finland	1.0	-0.1	1.2	-0.1	0.3	-1.5
Sweden	0.8	-1.5	3.6	0.0	-0.3	1.5
Norway	1.0	-1.3	-0.2	0.3	-2.4	1.8
Switzerland	-1.0	-0.3	0.6	-0.2	0.9	0.1
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Jan-26	Feb-26	Mar-26	Apr-26	May-26	Jun-26
Euro area
Total retail trade	2.2	1.3	2.4	1.0	1.9	0.7
Food, drinks, tobacco	1.9	1.0	0.9	1.2	2.2	0.9
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	2.9	1.7	3.8	1.8	3.1	1.7
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.7	0.3	1.2	-4.8	-5.8	-6.6
EU
Total retail trade	2.3	1.1	2.9	0.8	2.1	1.2
Food, drinks, tobacco	1.3	0.6	0.8	0.6	1.7	0.7
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	3.0	1.6	4.4	1.5	3.5	2.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	1.7	0.6	3.2	-3.1	-3.7	-4.1
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Jan-26	Feb-26	Mar-26	Apr-26	May-26	Jun-26
Euro area	2.2	1.3	2.4	1.0	1.9	0.7
EU	2.3	1.1	2.9	0.8	2.1	1.2
Belgium	0.4	-0.4	1.9	-2.1	-0.4	-0.1
Bulgaria	4.2	7.3	12.4	7.4	7.9	7.1
Czechia	5.0	3.7	6.2	0.8	4.7	c
Denmark	3.2	1.6	6.7	0.7	4.2	4.9
Germany	1.4	1.0	1.0	-0.4	2.0	-0.1
Estonia	8.7	4.9	6.2	1.6	-0.5	0.2
Ireland	1.9	-0.1	1.1	0.4	0.7	0.5
Greece	4.1	4.4	3.0	-0.3	6.8	c
Spain	3.6	2.1	4.3	0.3	1.2	0.5
France	3.6	1.7	2.3	2.0	2.1	0.3
Croatia	3.0	3.1	3.3	2.0	0.5	0.4
Italy	0.7	0.2	2.2	0.8	0.7	0.8
Cyprus	8.9	5.0	6.1	2.7	8.4	5.0
Latvia	7.1	4.5	4.1	2.5	3.5	4.8
Lithuania	9.1	2.9	6.7	9.8	6.9	5.8
Luxembourg	19.2	10.6	8.5	8.4	9.4	8.3
Hungary	3.5	3.9	8.2	3.6	4.8	3.0
Malta	3.9	13.0	3.1	5.1	5.0	3.6
Netherlands	-0.3	0.3	1.6	1.5	1.7	1.5
Austria	0.8	-0.2	0.1	-0.3	0.7	-0.3
Poland	4.2	0.8	7.1	-0.1	3.9	5.6
Portugal	4.1	2.6	6.2	5.2	2.6	3.1
Romania	-5.2	-7.1	-2.6	-5.8	-4.4	-6.6
Slovenia	-0.4	-2.7	6.2	3.0	2.2	2.1
Slovakia	-2.8	-2.4	5.1	-0.2	1.5	1.4
Finland	3.1	2.3	4.2	2.8	5.7	2.3
Sweden	3.8	1.9	6.2	4.7	7.9	7.2
Norway	4.1	1.6	0.9	0.8	-2.3	-0.3
Switzerland	0.2	0.4	1.4	1.0	3.4	1.5
* Calendar adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Jan-26	Feb-26	Mar-26	Apr-26	May-26	Jun-26
Euro area	104.3	103.8	104.7	104.3	104.7	104.4
EU	104.6	104.0	105.2	104.6	105.2	105.1
Belgium	92.2	91.8	95.1	93.4	92.7	93.4
Bulgaria	124.5	127.3	128.9	127.6	128.5	129.1
Czechia	101.7	101.5	103.1	101.9	103.2	c
Denmark	98.9	98.4	102.6	97.4	100.6	100.6
Germany	101.4	101.1	101.2	100.9	102.1	101.0
Estonia	97.4	97.0	97.0	95.5	93.3	94.1
Ireland	110.1	110.6	111.5	110.6	111.2	111.6
Greece	102.4	103.8	103.3	101.8	105.2	c
Spain	112.1	112.1	113.3	111.6	112.3	112.6
France	108.2	107.0	107.8	108.3	108.2	107.7
Croatia	118.3	118.3	118.9	118.7	116.3	118.1
Italy	98.0	97.9	98.4	98.3	98.0	98.2
Cyprus	127.4	128.3	129.1	127.9	132.6	131.3
Latvia	109.2	106.8	106.6	106.4	106.4	107.1
Lithuania	110.6	108.4	112.3	115.0	113.9	114.2
Luxembourg	144.3	139.3	141.3	134.6	140.8	144.3
Hungary	104.8	105.1	107.0	105.7	106.4	106.1
Malta	125.1	127.9	126.0	126.9	127.8	127.8
Netherlands	101.6	101.5	102.9	102.6	102.5	102.9
Austria	97.6	97.1	97.3	97.3	97.5	97.1
Poland	112.2	109.7	112.9	111.2	113.9	115.5
Portugal	117.6	116.8	119.8	119.1	118.8	120.8
Romania	110.8	111.4	113.6	110.8	111.7	110.4
Slovenia	100.5	99.0	104.3	103.2	103.3	103.1
Slovakia	101.7	101.9	104.5	102.6	102.6	103.0
Finland	94.0	93.9	95.0	94.9	95.2	93.8
Sweden	98.8	97.3	100.8	100.8	100.5	102.0
Norway	97.4	96.1	95.9	96.2	93.9	95.6
Switzerland	101.6	101.3	101.9	101.7	102.6	102.7
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Jan-26	Feb-26	Mar-26	Apr-26	May-26	Jun-26
Euro area	97.8	91.7	103.4	100.9	104.3	104.6
EU	97.4	91.4	104.2	101.6	105.2	105.5
Belgium	89.6	81.7	94.9	91.6	94.3	96.5
Bulgaria	113.6	108.7	126.6	122.3	126.1	129.0
Czechia	91.8	87.6	102.1	97.0	103.2	c
Denmark	89.1	84.6	99.7	97.3	106.9	103.5
Germany	93.9	90.8	104.4	101.1	102.9	100.3
Estonia	90.8	85.6	97.6	94.1	95.3	96.2
Ireland	93.3	101.8	102.6	101.6	108.2	117.7
Greece	92.2	98.2	98.9	99.0	104.6	c
Spain	109.9	97.5	109.6	105.8	110.6	114.9
France	104.3	94.1	105.3	105.1	106.1	106.5
Croatia	96.0	93.9	109.9	114.2	117.0	127.9
Italy	91.6	86.1	94.5	89.0	97.5	98.3
Cyprus	114.1	111.6	122.6	122.1	131.1	133.3
Latvia	99.1	91.2	104.0	101.4	106.1	108.6
Lithuania	100.8	92.0	109.2	114.5	117.9	116.0
Luxembourg	139.7	137.1	150.9	142.0	145.2	146.1
Hungary	92.3	91.3	107.2	104.4	106.6	107.0
Malta	109.1	110.5	118.1	119.7	128.7	131.1
Netherlands	96.7	88.9	103.1	101.1	106.5	104.9
Austria	89.4	87.2	98.8	98.5	96.2	97.2
Poland	102.6	95.7	118.2	112.2	114.2	114.8
Portugal	107.6	99.9	113.6	111.1	117.2	116.8
Romania	97.7	94.5	110.6	109.8	111.5	110.8
Slovenia	91.6	85.9	107.2	103.1	103.4	105.7
Slovakia	89.5	89.6	105.8	100.6	103.5	104.4
Finland	82.3	78.7	91.7	93.1	99.9	99.1
Sweden	87.2	81.6	99.1	100.7	106.4	108.4
Norway	88.7	80.8	91.5	92.1	100.3	101.3
Switzerland	95.4	89.8	102.7	97.5	104.6	102.7
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Notes for users

Revisions and timetable

Compared with the data issued in the News Release of 6 July 2026, the monthly percentage change for May 2026 has been revised from +0.2% to +0.4% in the euro area and from +0.5% to +0.6% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +1.6% to +1.9% in the euro area and from +1.9% to +2.1% in the EU.

Methods and definitions

The index of the volume of retail trade measures the evolution of the turnover in retail trade, adjusted for price changes (deflated), i.e. the evolution of the total amount of goods sold, based on data adjusted for calendar and seasonal effects.

Seasonally adjusted euro area and EU series are calculated by aggregating the seasonally adjusted national data.

Geographical information

Euro area (EA21): Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland.

The European Union (EU27) includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.