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Basket price history
Air Conditioner Prices by City
6-component retail basket · 12 tracked city areas
$2,607.96 – $2,668.21
Latest city range · basket total · USD
Lowest to highest across 12 cities-0.5%
Index change · month over month
toCity prices through
What does this price measure?
Daily city cost of a six-category basket of portable, window, through-wall, and mini-split air conditioners.
What’s in the basket?
Air conditioner component prices
Breaks this composite into its component indexes, showing configured quantities, latest costs and basket shares, contribution changes, and selected-city trends over the same dates.- Cities
- 12
- Components
- 6
Composite driver summary
Summarizes the selected city's composite move and available component impacts over the same comparison dates.- Change in composite (30 days)
- -2.6%
- Sep 14, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026
- Total composite change
- -$69.98
- from $2,696.77 to $2,626.79
How components built the composite change
Start$2,696.77
- Mini-Split Air Conditioners-$84.26-3.1%
- Portable Air Conditioners, 12,000+ BTU+$24.82+0.9%
- Through-Wall Air Conditioners, 8,000-14,999 BTU-$20.34-0.8%
- Portable Air Conditioners, 8,000-11,999 BTU+$9.16+0.3%
- Window Air Conditioners, Under 8,000 BTU+$0.330.0%
- Window Air Conditioners, 8,000-14,999 BTU+$0.320.0%
End$2,626.79
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Component price pages
Price for one portable air conditioner rated 8,000-11,999 BTU.
1 portable air conditioner
Price for one portable air conditioner rated 12,000 BTU or more.
1 portable air conditioner
Price for one window air conditioner rated below 8,000 BTU.
1 window air conditioner
Price for one window air conditioner rated 8,000-14,999 BTU.
1 window air conditioner
Price for one through-wall air conditioner rated 8,000-14,999 BTU.
1 through-wall air conditioner
Price for one mini-split air conditioner or heat pump.
1 mini-split air conditioner
Air Conditioner Price Index Methodology
A six-category air-conditioner basket spanning portable, window, through-wall, and mini-split units across capacity bands. Basket totals are expressed in U.S. dollars. The index line combines the component price indexes using their basket quantity weights. The band runs from the lowest to highest selected location. The headline range compares the lowest and highest city index values on the latest observation date. Changes in the mix of observed products can also affect the index. Charts can also show lower band, medium band and upper band.
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CostInflation, "Air Conditioner Prices by City" [air_conditioner_index], CostInflation price history, https://costinflation.com/indices/air-conditioner-prices.
Latest observation: Oct 14, 2026. Updated: Oct 14, 2026. Coverage: Cities.
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