Onion Prices Doubled: What Inflation Really Does to Your Wallet Skip to the article

🧅The Money BriefTUE 13 OCT

Retail inflation, Sept 2026

Onion prices doubled. Your wallet noticed.

Don't just read the numbers. Guess them, slide them, and watch your own bill change.

108.09%onion inflation, year on year

5.54%overall retail inflation

Overheard in the group chat

Tisha is panicking. Dhvani is not.

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Tisha 😰 & Dhvani 😎Dhvani is typing…

Tisha 😰DHVANI. have you seen onion prices?? 😭 mummy says they doubled

Dhvani 😎chill. she's not wrong. onion inflation hit 108.09% in September, so a bit more than double

Tisha 😰108%?!?! is this a crisis?? should I be panicking?? 😰

Dhvani 😎no panic needed. inflation just means the same stuff costs more than last year. overall it's 5.54%, food is 7.74%

Tisha 😰but 5.54% sounds scary?? what even is normal

Dhvani 😎RBI aims for around 4%. we've been above that 4 months in a row. that's why it raised the repo rate last week

Tisha 😰so my EMI... 😭

Guess first

How much more did onions cost in September 2026 than a year earlier?

+100%

Inflate your own bill

Pick a basket, set what you spent a year ago, and see what the same things cost now.

A year ago, per month: ₹300

a year ago₹300

now₹624

+₹324

more every month on onions

₹3,891 over 12 months at this level

≈ 16 samosas (₹20 each) a month 🥟

Uses the national year-on-year rate. Prices where you live will differ. Illustrative.

Why the RBI cares

Tap a month. The dashed line is the RBI's 4% midpoint.

4% target

Sep · 5.54%

1.54 points above the RBI's 4% midpoint.

Keeping inflation near 4% is the RBI's job. Last week it raised the repo rate to 5.50%, citing inflation risks from oil. The trade-off: costlier EMIs.

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🧅 Onion inflation hit 108.09% in Sept 2026 (48.78% in Aug).
🛒 Food inflation 7.74%; overall retail inflation 5.54%, above the RBI's 4% midpoint for 4 straight months.

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Provisional CPI data for September 2026, released 12 Oct. Item-level and rural/urban figures are national averages. Verify against official releases.

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