With the summer heat upon us, ice cream is one of the most essential desserts as we look for solutions to stay cool.

However, with inflation, the cost of ice cream has gone way up, and one city has the distinction as the most expensive to buy a scoop, writes Brooke Steinberg for the New York Post.

That city is Philadelphia, according to a new study conducted by online learning site Preply. The site looked at America’s top 50 vacation spots to see how much a scoop of ice cream is, and came to this conclusion.

In Philly, the average price for a scoop is $5.35. To put it in context, if everyone in a family of four ordered two scoops of ice cream each, the bill would come out to nearly $43.

As a popular tourist vacation spot, Philadelphia’s prices are higher than other cities in Pennsylvania.

A scoop from second-place New York averages $5.

With inflation, retail ice cream prices reached a high of $6.02 per half gallon in 2023, a stark difference from under $3 in 1995, according to data from Statista.

The cheapest scoop of ice cream today can be found in the Midwest.

Read more about the increasing cost of ice cream and some of the most popular flavors in the New York Post.

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