Athens vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Athens	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1272	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3097	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$616	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1082	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$450	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$88.4	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1094	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	17 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	90	46
😀 Quality of life	78	60
🏙️ Population	643K	1.47M

The cost of living in Athens is 66% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4281st and 6596th ($1272 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 6th and 14th in Greece and Russia, respectively. Check Greece vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Athens compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Athens ranked 1st best city to live in Greece vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 656th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Athens vs Yekaterinburg

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	Athens	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$15.1	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$56.4	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$9.33	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.4	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$4.11	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.19	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$583	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$455	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1040	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$850	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$107	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$165	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$29.3	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.85%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3265	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3075	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.25	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$31	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$12.7	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.9	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.71	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.27	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.2	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.7	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.8	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.1	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.3	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.91	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.37	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.29	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.58	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.23	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$11.3	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.79	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$5.01	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.94	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$5.09	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.01	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.81	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$44.1	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$9.39	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$49	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$11.9	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$86	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$94	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$456	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$9915	$4946

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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 Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658