Athens vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Athens	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1272	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3097	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$616	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$1082	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$450	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$88.4	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1094	$388
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	17 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	90	60
😀 Quality of life	78	56
🏙️ Population	643K	1.42M

The cost of living in Athens is 151% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 4281st and 8600th ($1272 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 6th and 20th 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 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Athens ranked 1st best city to live in Greece vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 656th and 5713th 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	$15.1	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$56.4	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$9.33	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.4	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$4.11	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.19	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$583	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$455	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1040	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$850	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$107	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$165	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$29.3	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.85%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3265	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3075	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.25	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$31	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$12.7	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.9	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.71	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.27	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.2	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.7	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.8	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.1	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.3	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.91	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.37	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.29	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.58	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.23	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$11.3	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.79	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$5.01	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.94	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$5.09	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.01	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.81	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$44.1	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$9.39	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$49	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$11.9	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$86	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$94	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$456	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$9915	$3129

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Cities near Athens

Distance	City	Cost of living
3.6 km or 2.2 mi	Kallithea	$1159
4 km or 2.5 mi	Nea Smyrni	$1150
5 km or 3.1 mi	Peristeri	$1082
5.5 km or 3.4 mi	Palaio Faliro	$1258
6.5 km or 4 mi	Nea Filadelfeia	$1131
6.7 km or 4.2 mi	Nea Ionia	$1142
7.3 km or 4.5 mi	Piraeus	$1045
7.4 km or 4.6 mi	Nikaia	$1054
9.3 km or 5.8 mi	Argyroupoli	$1284
12 km or 7.2 mi	Glyfada	$1437
15 km or 9 mi	Kifissia	$1265
15 km or 9.1 mi	Voula	$1296
15 km or 9.4 mi	Aspropyrgos	$957
16 km or 10 mi	Eleusis	$1022
20 km or 12 mi	Salamina	$967
55 km or 34 mi	Chalcis	$980
69 km or 43 mi	Corinth	$955
129 km or 80 mi	Tripoli	$990
151 km or 94 mi	Lamia	$836
154 km or 96 mi	Mykonos	$1838
168 km or 104 mi	Volos	$981
176 km or 109 mi	Patras	$1011
178 km or 111 mi	Kalamata	$1033
214 km or 133 mi	Agrinio	$900
216 km or 134 mi	Chios	$1099
216 km or 134 mi	Larissa	$1030
219 km or 136 mi	Karditsa	$1012
231 km or 143 mi	Santorini	$1659
243 km or 151 mi	Trikala	$1015
275 km or 171 mi	Mytilene	$934
275 km or 171 mi	Katerini	$973
275 km or 171 mi	Chania	$1131
298 km or 185 mi	Rethymno	$1052
302 km or 188 mi	Thessaloniki	$1106
303 km or 188 mi	Izmir	$909
307 km or 191 mi	Kozani	$943
311 km or 193 mi	Ioannina	$930
311 km or 193 mi	Kusadasi	$764
311 km or 193 mi	Veria	$1027
315 km or 196 mi	Crete	$1150

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$552
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$490
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$486
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$586
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$434
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$473
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$490
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$718
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$550
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$605
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$444
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$611
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$536
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$459
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$574
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$448
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$455
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$486
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$505
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$513
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$507
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$550
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$494
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$430
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$513
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$433
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$571
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$683
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$617
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$850
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$454
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$440
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$400
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$433
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$561
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$552
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$538
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$595
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$549