Average cinema ticket priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2025
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Average cinema ticket (per ticket) cost £7.21 in 2015 and £8.30 in 2025, a change of +15% in pounds across 10 years. The figures are annual averages from UK Cinema Association average ticket price. The fiat peak in this series came in 2025 at £8.30.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 3,983,425 sats to 10,744 sats, a change of −99.7%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +68% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
One of the tamer fiat risers on the page, which makes the sats comparison all the more lopsided.
Small pleasures make good barometers precisely because nobody subsidises or caps them. The main page runs the same comparison across the full basket.
| Year | Pounds | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | £7.21 | 3,983,425 |
| 2016 | £7.41 | 1,680,272 |
| 2017 | £7.49 | 261,980 |
| 2018 | £7.22 | 136,432 |
| 2019 | £7.11 | 120,857 |
| 2020 | £6.75 | 74,078 |
| 2021 | £7.19 | 20,693 |
| 2022 | £7.69 | 34,773 |
| 2023 | £7.92 | 33,522 |
| 2024 | £8.10 | 15,485 |
| 2025 | £8.30 | 10,744 |
Source: UK Cinema Association average ticket price. Series pending external verification. Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-04. Full method on the main page.