Athens vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 11, 2026

	Athens	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1462	$499
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3581	$1275
🏠 One person rent	$722	$200
🏘️ Family rent	$1260	$342
🍽️ Food expenses	$510	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$95.1	$43
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1363	$459
😷 Air quality	Good	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	17 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	91	61
😀 Quality of life	81	63
🏙️ Population	643K	1.42M

The cost of living in Athens is 193% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 4184th and 8722nd ($1462 vs $499) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 6th and 24th in Greece and Ukraine, respectively. Check Greece vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Athens compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Athens ranked 1st best city to live in Greece vs Kharkiv ranked 4th in Ukraine, while ranked 639th and 5605th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Athens vs Kharkiv

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	Athens	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$16.7	$5.46
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$63.9	$21
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10	$4.39
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$6.25	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$4.6	$1.23
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.69	$0.72
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$676	$218
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$533	$122
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1248	$392
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$976	$222
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$128	$52.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$197	$80.7
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$32.4	$5.94
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.65%	17.61%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4084	$1150
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3602	$595
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.43	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$32.6	$8.47
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$13.6	$3.84
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$2.11	$1.25
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.94	$0.97
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.55	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.83	$0.97
🥚 Eggs, x12	$5.18	$1.46
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.4	$7.2
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.4	$3.72
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$17.8	$7.05
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.48	$0.87
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.15	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.5	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.43	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.41	$0.57
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.28	$0.5
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.69	$0.36
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.7	$0.74
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$13.2	$4.6
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.96	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$6.27	$2.2
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.99	$4.09
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$5.55	$1.33
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.05	$0.65
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.85	$1.27
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$53.2	$20.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$10.5	$4.06
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$55.1	$7.93
💇 Haircut, simple	$12.7	$2.88
👖 Brand Jeans	$105	$55.1
👟 Brand Sneakers	$107	$77.1
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$641	$299
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$13299	$2953

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Cities near Athens

Distance	City	Cost of living
3.6 km or 2.2 mi	Kallithea	$1318
4 km or 2.5 mi	Nea Smyrni	$1304
5 km or 3.1 mi	Peristeri	$1192
5.5 km or 3.4 mi	Palaio Faliro	$1410
6.5 km or 4 mi	Nea Filadelfeia	$1279
6.7 km or 4.2 mi	Nea Ionia	$1286
7.3 km or 4.5 mi	Piraeus	$1240
7.4 km or 4.6 mi	Nikaia	$1187
9.3 km or 5.8 mi	Argyroupoli	$1468
12 km or 7.2 mi	Glyfada	$1663
15 km or 9 mi	Kifissia	$1426
15 km or 9.1 mi	Voula	$1497
15 km or 9.4 mi	Aspropyrgos	$1046
16 km or 10 mi	Eleusis	$1139
20 km or 12 mi	Salamina	$1069
55 km or 34 mi	Chalcis	$1199
69 km or 43 mi	Corinth	$1031
129 km or 80 mi	Tripoli	$1165
151 km or 94 mi	Lamia	$954
154 km or 96 mi	Mykonos	$2084
168 km or 104 mi	Volos	$1130
176 km or 109 mi	Patras	$1104
178 km or 111 mi	Kalamata	$1169
214 km or 133 mi	Agrinio	$1010
216 km or 134 mi	Chios	$1272
216 km or 134 mi	Larissa	$1150
219 km or 136 mi	Karditsa	$1124
231 km or 143 mi	Santorini	$1900
243 km or 151 mi	Trikala	$1110
275 km or 171 mi	Mytilene	$1079
275 km or 171 mi	Katerini	$1047
275 km or 171 mi	Chania	$1320
298 km or 185 mi	Rethymno	$1207
302 km or 188 mi	Thessaloniki	$1272
303 km or 188 mi	Izmir	$1040
307 km or 191 mi	Kozani	$1068
311 km or 193 mi	Ioannina	$1075
311 km or 193 mi	Kusadasi	$822
311 km or 193 mi	Veria	$1013
315 km or 196 mi	Crete	$1360

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$757
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$490
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$516
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$630
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$505
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$567
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$682
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$748
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$644
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$637
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$465
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$639
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$528
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$549
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$485
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$761
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$724
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$476
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$492
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$696
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$599
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$529
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$557
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$705
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$597
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$686
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$500
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$697
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$893
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$759
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$882
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$487
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$545
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$534
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$414
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$680
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$905
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$637
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$759
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$562