Volume of retail trade down by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU

Overview

In February 2026, compared with January 2026, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2026, retail trade volume remained stable in both the euro area and the EU.

In February 2026, compared with February 2025, the calendar adjusted retail sales index increased by 1.7% in both the euro area and the EU.

Retail trade volume

Monthly comparison by retail sector and by Member State

In the euro area in February 2026, compared with January 2026, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.5%,
remained stable for non-food products (except automotive fuel),
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 0.7%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

decreased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.5%,
decreased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 0.2%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.0%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Lithuania (-2.5%), Poland (-2.4%) and Slovenia (-2.0%). The highest increases were observed in Malta (+2.0%), Bulgaria (+1.0%) and in Cyprus and Portugal (both +0.8%).

Annual comparison by retail sector and by Member State

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

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 1.0%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.3%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.4%.

In the EU, the volume of retail trade

increased for food, drinks, tobacco by 0.9%,
increased for non-food products (except automotive fuel) by 2.3%,
increased for automotive fuel in specialised stores by 1.6%.

Among Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in the total retail trade volume were recorded in Luxembourg (+11.9%), Malta (+11.4%) and Bulgaria (+7.3%). The largest decreases were observed in Romania (-6.8%), Slovenia (-3.5%) and Slovakia (-2.4%).

Tables

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Sep-25	Oct-25	Nov-25	Dec-25	Jan-26	Feb-26
Euro area
Total retail trade	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.0	-0.2
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.2	0.5	-0.4	0.4	0.5	-0.5
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.2	0.4	0.4	-0.1	-0.2	0.0
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.1	0.5	-0.1	0.6	-0.8	0.7
EU
Total retail trade	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.2	0.0	-0.3
Food, drinks, tobacco	-0.2	0.5	-0.2	0.2	0.5	-0.5
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	0.4	0.4	0.4	-0.1	-0.1	-0.2
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.7	-0.9	1.0
* Calendar and seasonally adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the previous month*
	Sep-25	Oct-25	Nov-25	Dec-25	Jan-26	Feb-26
Euro area	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.0	-0.2
EU	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.2	0.0	-0.3
Belgium	0.3	-1.3	-1.6	0.8	-0.2	-0.4
Bulgaria	0.9	1.0	-0.2	1.5	-0.4	1.0
Czechia	-0.1	0.3	0.9	0.0	1.0	c
Denmark	0.2	0.7	2.7	-2.4	-0.2	0.0
Germany	0.5	0.4	-0.6	1.7	-1.1	-0.6
Estonia	1.8	1.4	-0.7	0.0	4.4	-0.1
Ireland	0.6	-0.5	0.0	-0.4	-0.1	0.5
Greece	-1.9	2.7	-0.7	0.9	0.9	c
Spain	0.4	0.0	1.0	-1.0	0.0	0.0
France	0.1	0.6	0.2	-0.2	0.7	-0.1
Croatia	0.9	0.9	-0.6	1.8	-1.3	-0.2
Italy	-0.3	0.5	0.3	-0.4	0.2	0.0
Cyprus	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	-1.2	0.8
Latvia	-0.3	1.6	0.1	-0.7	1.5	-1.1
Lithuania	-1.3	0.3	0.5	0.4	-0.1	-2.5
Luxembourg	7.5	-0.9	-2.3	-0.6	4.2	-1.7
Hungary	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.3
Malta	2.0	0.7	-0.1	1.0	-0.2	2.0
Netherlands	-0.3	0.0	0.6	-0.9	0.2	-0.3
Austria	0.8	-0.6	-1.0	2.1	-0.2	-0.6
Poland	-0.1	1.3	-1.0	0.4	2.0	-2.4
Portugal	0.7	-0.2	2.1	-3.2	1.8	0.8
Romania	1.1	-1.1	0.2	0.6	-3.2	0.2
Slovenia	-0.8	0.2	0.2	0.9	-1.3	-2.0
Slovakia	1.0	-0.2	-1.5	2.2	-3.3	0.2
Finland	0.0	0.9	1.0	-0.4	1.1	-0.2
Sweden	0.4	0.2	2.1	-2.2	0.4	-0.9
Norway	-0.4	0.1	1.2	-0.7	0.9	-1.1
Switzerland	0.8	0.1	-0.2	1.1	-1.6	0.4
* 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*
	Sep-25	Oct-25	Nov-25	Dec-25	Jan-26	Feb-26
Euro area
Total retail trade	1.4	2.1	2.5	2.0	2.1	1.7
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.9	1.5	1.0	1.4	1.8	1.0
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	1.7	3.0	3.7	2.3	2.6	2.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	1.2	2.1	1.2	1.9	1.1	1.4
EU
Total retail trade	1.5	2.2	2.5	2.0	2.4	1.7
Food, drinks, tobacco	0.4	1.0	1.1	1.3	1.6	0.9
Non-food products (except automotive fuel)	2.2	3.2	3.9	2.6	2.9	2.3
Automotive fuel in specialised stores	1.9	2.6	1.7	3.1	2.0	1.6
* Calendar adjusted Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade % change compared with the same month of the previous year*
	Sep-25	Oct-25	Nov-25	Dec-25	Jan-26	Feb-26
Euro area	1.4	2.1	2.5	2.0	2.1	1.7
EU	1.5	2.2	2.5	2.0	2.4	1.7
Belgium	-0.8	-0.1	0.5	0.0	0.4	-0.4
Bulgaria	7.2	8.7	4.8	9.0	4.2	7.3
Czechia	2.6	2.2	4.4	1.8	5.0	c
Denmark	2.4	3.6	6.2	3.3	2.8	1.9
Germany	1.0	1.9	1.3	3.1	0.9	0.6
Estonia	3.2	4.0	0.2	-0.9	8.7	4.8
Ireland	1.9	1.1	0.8	-0.6	1.9	0.3
Greece	-1.7	4.2	0.7	4.7	4.5	c
Spain	4.3	4.0	6.3	2.7	3.5	2.0
France	2.3	3.4	3.6	2.9	3.4	3.9
Croatia	3.1	4.2	1.4	4.8	3.0	3.1
Italy	-1.8	-0.3	1.5	-0.6	0.7	0.3
Cyprus	8.8	10.5	8.4	9.0	8.9	5.0
Latvia	3.0	4.7	3.2	1.2	6.4	4.4
Lithuania	4.5	3.7	3.2	2.4	8.9	2.7
Luxembourg	14.7	9.5	6.5	4.1	24.4	11.9
Hungary	3.0	3.1	2.5	3.5	3.5	3.8
Malta	6.9	7.0	4.0	5.3	4.7	11.4
Netherlands	1.1	1.2	2.3	0.4	-0.3	0.1
Austria	0.3	-0.7	-2.3	0.4	0.8	-0.3
Poland	3.2	4.1	2.2	4.3	6.8	3.9
Portugal	5.3	4.0	6.4	2.9	4.4	4.7
Romania	-2.0	-4.8	-4.5	-2.1	-5.2	-6.8
Slovenia	1.8	1.0	0.7	3.8	-0.3	-3.5
Slovakia	1.1	0.7	-2.8	-5.1	-3.1	-2.4
Finland	0.3	1.5	3.2	0.0	3.6	2.7
Sweden	4.2	4.6	6.9	2.4	3.6	2.1
Norway	3.9	3.4	5.2	3.1	4.0	1.6
Switzerland	2.2	2.2	1.7	2.7	-0.6	0.9
* Calendar adjusted c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar and seasonally adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Sep-25	Oct-25	Nov-25	Dec-25	Jan-26	Feb-26
Euro area	103.5	103.8	103.8	104.0	104.0	103.8
EU	103.8	104.2	104.2	104.4	104.4	104.1
Belgium	94.4	93.2	91.7	92.4	92.2	91.8
Bulgaria	122.2	123.4	123.1	125.0	124.5	125.8
Czechia	99.5	99.8	100.7	100.7	101.7	c
Denmark	97.3	98.0	100.6	98.2	98.0	98.0
Germany	100.6	101.0	100.4	102.1	101.0	100.4
Estonia	93.6	94.9	94.2	94.2	98.3	98.2
Ireland	111.1	110.6	110.6	110.2	110.1	110.7
Greece	98.5	101.2	100.5	101.4	102.3	c
Spain	112.2	112.2	113.3	112.2	112.2	112.2
France	107.0	107.6	107.8	107.6	108.3	108.2
Croatia	117.2	118.3	117.6	119.7	118.2	118.0
Italy	97.1	97.6	97.9	97.5	97.7	97.7
Cyprus	126.6	127.6	128.2	128.9	127.4	128.4
Latvia	104.9	106.6	106.7	105.9	107.5	106.3
Lithuania	109.2	109.5	110.0	110.4	110.3	107.5
Luxembourg	143.2	141.9	138.6	137.8	143.6	141.2
Hungary	103.1	103.5	103.6	104.1	104.6	104.9
Malta	124.5	125.4	125.3	126.6	126.4	128.9
Netherlands	101.5	101.5	102.1	101.2	101.4	101.1
Austria	97.4	96.8	95.8	97.8	97.6	97.0
Poland	111.0	112.4	111.3	111.8	114.0	111.3
Portugal	116.6	116.4	118.9	115.1	117.2	118.1
Romania	114.9	113.6	113.8	114.5	110.8	111.0
Slovenia	99.7	99.9	100.1	101.0	99.7	97.7
Slovakia	103.0	102.8	101.3	103.5	100.1	100.3
Finland	91.9	92.7	93.6	93.2	94.2	94.0
Sweden	97.7	97.9	100.0	97.8	98.2	97.3
Norway	96.1	96.2	97.4	96.7	97.6	96.5
Switzerland	101.7	101.8	101.6	102.7	101.1	101.5
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Volume of retail trade, calendar adjusted indices (base year 2021)
	Sep-25	Oct-25	Nov-25	Dec-25	Jan-26	Feb-26
Euro area	100.9	105.0	107.4	121.6	97.5	91.9
EU	101.2	105.5	108.0	121.6	97.3	91.8
Belgium	90.6	95.0	92.8	108.2	89.6	81.7
Bulgaria	123.7	128.2	129.4	142.4	113.6	108.7
Czechia	95.4	101.7	114.1	124.1	91.8	c
Denmark	92.3	96.2	108.6	114.7	88.8	84.9
Germany	97.4	102.8	108.1	114.0	92.7	89.9
Estonia	91.6	96.8	93.4	104.9	90.8	85.5
Ireland	104.9	103.6	129.7	160.8	93.3	102.2
Greece	98.9	100.6	100.1	110.0	92.6	c
Spain	110.6	111.8	113.8	130.9	109.8	97.4
France	103.7	108.2	109.3	129.9	104.1	96.1
Croatia	122.4	117.5	107.1	124.8	96.0	93.9
Italy	96.6	101.7	100.4	118.5	91.6	86.2
Cyprus	126.1	126.8	132.2	157.9	114.1	111.6
Latvia	102.9	106.7	105.0	119.2	98.5	91.1
Lithuania	107.5	111.0	109.7	124.8	100.6	91.8
Luxembourg	143.8	148.7	148.8	156.5	145.8	138.8
Hungary	100.5	106.8	108.5	122.1	92.3	91.2
Malta	120.8	130.4	132.5	143.1	109.8	108.8
Netherlands	97.1	102.1	107.0	111.7	96.7	88.7
Austria	96.3	98.9	96.7	112.5	89.4	87.1
Poland	109.0	116.7	111.9	128.3	105.2	98.6
Portugal	114.0	115.1	120.3	138.5	107.4	101.5
Romania	116.6	114.7	119.3	126.9	97.7	94.8
Slovenia	99.4	102.2	102.1	111.9	91.7	85.3
Slovakia	102.0	107.9	105.9	118.8	89.4	89.3
Finland	89.3	91.9	94.1	107.3	82.8	79.0
Sweden	93.7	97.6	105.8	109.6	87.0	81.8
Norway	91.7	93.9	106.5	112.3	88.7	80.8
Switzerland	96.8	101.9	109.1	124.1	94.6	90.2
c Confidential Source dataset: sts_trtu_m

Notes for users

Revisions and timetable

Compared with the data issued in the News Release of 5 March 2026, the monthly percentage change for January 2026 has been revised from -0.1% to 0.0% in the euro area and from +0.1% to 0.0% in the EU. The annual percentage change has been revised from +2.0% to +2.1% in the euro area and from +2.3% to +2.4% 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.