With National Coffee Day around the corner and coffee consumption up 14% since January 2021, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2022’s Best Coffee Cities in America, as well as accompanying videos and expert commentary. Alongside that report, WalletHub also released its list of top coffee deals and discounts offered by retailers during the holiday.
To determine the best local coffee scenes in America, WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 12 key indicators of a strong coffee culture. The data set ranges from coffee shops, coffee houses and cafés per capita to the average price per pack of coffee.
| Top 20 Cities for Coffee Lovers | |
| 1. San Francisco, CA | 11. New Orleans, LA |
| 2. Seattle, WA | 12. Boston, MA |
| 3. Orlando, FL | 13. San Diego, CA |
| 4. Honolulu, HI | 14. Long Beach, CA |
| 5. Portland, OR | 15. Chicago, IL |
| 6. Tampa, FL | 16. Los Angeles, CA |
| 7. Pittsburgh, PA | 17. Cincinnati, OH |
| 8. Miami, FL | 18. Atlanta, GA |
| 9. Sacramento, CA | 19. Washington, DC |
| 10. Denver, CO | 20. Austin, TX |
Best vs. Worst
- Miami and Hialeah, Florida, have the lowest average price for a pack of coffee, $3.41, which is 2.4 times lower than in Honolulu, the city with the highest at $8.11.
- Fremont, California, has the highest average annual spending on coffee per household, $229.62, which is 3.5 times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest at $65.06.
- Gilbert, Arizona, has the highest share of households that own a single-cup/pod-brewing coffee maker, 28.11 percent, which is 2.6 times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest at 10.93 percent.
- Orlando, Florida, has the most coffee shops, coffee houses and cafés (per square root of population), 0.4497, which is 7.4 times more than in Laredo, Texas, the city with the fewest at 0.0607.
- Portland, Oregon, has the most coffee and tea manufacturers (per square root of population), 0.0216, which is 43.2 times more than in Riverside and San Bernardino, California, the cities with the fewest at 0.0005.
