Montenegro's annual inflation rate held steady at 3.6% in June 2026, unchanged from the previous month after easing from a three-month high of 3.8% in April.
Price pressures were primarily driven by food prices, which edged up to 2.1% from 2% in the previous month, and transports costs accelerating to 12.8% from 10.7%.
Additional upward pressure came from clothing and footwear (5.6% vs 5.3%), restaurants and hotels (4.4% vs 2.2%), alcoholic beverages and tobacco (5.6% vs 5.3%), furnishings (3.5% vs 2.6%), health (3.5% vs 0.2%) and recreation and culture (1.8% vs 1.3%).
In contrast, inflation for housing and utilities eased to 2.8% from 3%, while information and commucination costs slowed slitghtly to 0.7% from 0.8%.
Meanwhile, insurence inflation remained steady at 2.7%.
The harmonised annual inflation accelerated to 3.6% from 3.4%.
On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.4%, matching the pace recorded in the previous month.