What are the top cities by revenue? - GA4 BigQuery

With Google Analytics 4 (GA4), you will now be able to store your data in Google BigQuery which opens up lots of interesting possibilities with your data. Ask questions of your data with SQL.

Query: What are the top cities by revenue?

select
geo.city as city,
sum(ecommerce.purchase_revenue) as revenue
from `bigquery-public-data.ga4_obfuscated_sample_ecommerce.events_*`
where event_name = 'purchase' and
_table_suffix between '20210101' and '20210107'
group by city
order by revenue desc
limit 20

Output:

Notes:

• All queries reference the BigQuery sample GA4 data set. You can try this for free and Google provides a substantial free credit.
• The dataset contains data from 1 Nov 2020 to 31 Jan 2021.
• You will need to update the data source if you want to use this query with your own data.
• You can update the date range to suit your needs. I have chosen 1 Jan 2021 to 7 Jan 2021 for this example.
• Occasionally the results may not line up perfectly when querying this sample dataset.

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