With 5 priced readings of the headline plate, our numbers for Whitsunday are indicative, not authoritative. Treat the medians as a directional signal. The Queensland state-level reading (n=861 cafés) is more reliable when you need a number to quote.
The headline plate · Eggs Benedict
Whitsunday median · indicative
$22.00
−7.9% against the national median, and 0.0% against Mackay itself.
First readingApril 2026 reading
Indicative sample
n=5 venues · spread $19.60–$23.00 · April 2026
How Whitsunday compares
Whitsunday
$22.00
Mackay
$22.00
Australia
$23.90
The price spread, not the price tag
April 2026 Reading
What you pay depends on where you sit. Across 5 readings of Eggs Benedict in this region:
$19.60
p25 · $22.00
Median
$22.00
p75 · $23.00
$23.00
10th percentile90th percentile
Solid band: middle 50% of cafés (p25–p75). Gradient: full p10–p90 spread.
Suburbs are a way to read this region, not a destination. We don't run a suburb page when the sample is thin — the region is the editorial unit.
Suburb
Median
vs region
n
Cannonvale thin
$22.50
+2.3%
n=2
Airlie Beach thin
$20.00
−9.1%
n=2
The 7.9 percent
April 2026 Reading
Whitsunday runs, by our reading, −7.9% below the national median for a eggs benedict — and 0.0% above Mackay itself. The pattern is visible suburb by suburb: Cannonvale at $22.50 down to Airlie Beach at $20.00. What you pay for, in this region, is geography — and a postcode.
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