The study revealed that there’s an average of 1,864 colonies of bacteria on a single cinema seat. Comparing this to the average toilet seat, which they found around 135 colonies on average.
Interestingly, they found that the average cinema cupholder contains even more germs than the seats. Around 2,396 colonies of bacteria live in one single cupholder on average.
“Obviously, the cleanliness of the seats will vary across different cinemas, not to mention seat styles and fabrics,” they said. “We won’t name names, but the dirtiest cinema seat we tested had around 3,000 colonies of bacteria living on it,”