Cardamom prices today
Cardamom is one of the world’s most valuable spices, widely used in foods, beverages, and traditional medicine. As the third most expensive spice globally, after saffron and vanilla, the cardamom market is highly sensitive to changes in harvest conditions, trade flows, and global demand. Expana provides transparent and timely pricing data to help buyers, processors, and distributors understand current cardamom prices and navigate this volatile market. With coverage across major origins like Guatemala and India, our insights help professionals track trends, anticipate risks, and optimise sourcing strategies.
Expana – your trusted source for cardamom pricing and insight
Expana offers essential pricing and intelligence for professionals trading in both small and large cardamom markets. Our platform supports key decisions in procurement, import-export logistics, and commodity pricing with data from the world’s top producing and consuming regions.
We provide ongoing updates and trade intelligence on market dynamics including harvest conditions, yield quality, inventory levels, and consumer demand shifts in regions like the Middle East and Europe.
Our cardamom market coverage includes:
- benchmark price updates for small and large cardamom
- analysis of export trends from Guatemala and India
- editorial insights into weather patterns and yield variations
- commentary on input costs like labour, fertilisers, and drying methods
- monthly harvest updates and global demand signals
- key trade flows into markets like Saudi Arabia, Europe, and the US
Expana helps you manage exposure in a price-sensitive category shaped by seasonality, weather risks, and strong import concentration.
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Expana provides critical market intelligence to professionals in the cardamom industry, helping stakeholders stay on top of pricing developments, shifting supply conditions, and emerging trends. Our insights support informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and strategic planning in a dynamic global spice market.
Cardamom Market FAQs
Cardamom prices reflect a combination of farmgate costs, harvesting frequency, weather impacts, export volumes, and demand from key markets like the Middle East.
We provide benchmark data for cardamom sourced from Guatemala and India—together responsible for nearly 65% of global production. Pricing includes CIF Europe, ex-warehouse US, and FOB export levels.
Key factors include rainfall levels, fungal disease outbreaks, pest issues, availability of labour, and drying methods. Market prices are also sensitive to currency fluctuations, regional political stability, and demand surges during religious or cultural holidays.
Yes. We cover multiple grades including Bold, Super Bold, and Split pods. Our data includes both whole pods and seeds used in food and non-food applications such as traditional medicine.
Cardamom is widely used in baked goods, sweets, curries, flavoured teas and coffees. In Middle Eastern markets, it is also used in spiced rice and desserts. Some varieties are processed into powder or essential oils.
Yes. Our platform supports cost modelling for products such as spiced snacks, herbal teas, baked goods, and blended spice mixes. Get more information about cost modelling features.
Cardamom benchmarks are updated on a regular basis—monthly for most series. Editorial commentary is provided to explain price movements and seasonal trends.