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Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in September 2026 increased 0.81 per cent compared to the previous month, 4.47 per cent from December 2025 and 5.36 per cent from a year earlier, according to the municipal Statistics Office.
The price index of food and catering services rose 0.80 per cent month on month and 4.81 per cent year on year. Vegetable prices soared during the month, mainly due to prolonged heavy rains in Hanoi and northern provinces, which flooded and damaged vegetable farming areas and reduced supplies.
Frequent rain also disrupted harvesting, transportation and the supply of vegetables to markets across the capital, putting upward pressure on prices.
Housing, electricity, water, fuel and construction materials recorded a 7.19 per cent increase from September 2025. In the first nine months of 2026, the group’s average price index rose 7.44 per cent year on year, driven by increases of 40.8 per cent in kerosene prices, 43.09 per cent in environmental sanitation services, 16.76 per cent in construction materials, 8.57 per cent in housing rents and 3.89 per cent in household electricity prices.
The transport group rose 11.30 per cent year on year. Its average index during the January–September period went up 6.9 per cent from the same period last year, with diesel prices up 39.01 per cent and petrol prices up 11.23 per cent. Air passenger transport fares saw the sharpest hike, 80.63 per cent.
During the first nine months, the average price index for household appliances and equipment climbed 3.22 per cent year on year, while that for medicines and healthcare services rose 0.44 per cent.
The city's nine-month average CPI went up 4.91 per cent year on year.
Meanwhile, the average CPI in the third quarter expanded 5.14 per cent from the same period last year.
Between July and September, the transport group posted the highest increase at 7.74 per cent, followed by housing, electricity, water, fuel and construction materials at 7.17 per cent, education at 5.32 per cent, and food and catering services at 4.87 per cent. Information and communications was the only to record a decline, falling 0.66 per cent.
According to the municipal Statistics Office, price changes in the third quarter were largely linked to global fuel prices, which affected input costs. The nationwide rollout of E10 RON 95 biofuel helped ease pressure on prices during the quarter.- (VNA/VLLF)
