Beijing vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 01, 2024

	Beijing	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1065	$676
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3114	$1762
🏠 One person rent	$605	$326
🏘️ Family rent	$1364	$708
🍽️ Food expenses	$253	$225
🚐 Transport expenses	$108	$52.3
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1709	$605
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	100	46
😀 Quality of life	78	60
🏙️ Population	21.9M	1.47M

The cost of living in Beijing is 58% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4887th and 6984th ($1065 vs $676) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 10th and 11th in China and Russia, respectively. Check China vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.6 months in Beijing compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Beijing ranked 5th best city to live in China vs Yekaterinburg ranked 3rd in Russia, while ranked 583rd and 5379th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Beijing vs Yekaterinburg infographic

Share this infographic!

Use the link below to embed the infographic from our site and automatically keep the data layer up to date.

If you prefer to download the image, please credit us as a source.

<img src="https://livingcost.org/assets/photo/cost/beijing/yekaterinburg.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Beijing vs Yekaterinburg infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/beijing/yekaterinburg" target="_blank">Beijing vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Beijing vs Yekaterinburg

Prices for goods and services in Beijing and Yekaterinburg are partly crowdsourced by our visitors, just like yourself. Please consider telling us about your city.

	Beijing	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$3.9	$7.69
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$29.6	$31.3
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.54	$4.4
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.4	$0.77
☕ Cappuccino	$3.83	$1.85
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.5	$0.72
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$843	$356
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$487	$240
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2089	$838
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1102	$559
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$32.7	$56.8
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$50.3	$86.3
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$13.6	$6.47
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.35%	13.02%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$14972	$1840
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$8057	$1299
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.69	$0.36
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$35.5	$27.3
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$4.9	$3.76
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.19	$0.59
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$2.01	$0.81
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.53	$0.45
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.27	$1.14
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.97	$1.13
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.7	$8.79
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.23	$3.8
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.5	$6.55
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.06	$1.35
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.71	$1.24
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.9	$1.53
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.23	$2.21
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.84	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$0.55
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.34	$0.36
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.29	$1.73
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$10.5	$5.19
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.9	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.64	$2.41
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.55	$3.44
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.54	$3.15
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.33	$0.68
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.94	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$56.2	$27.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$8.44	$3.57
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$33.8	$16.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$9.69	$7.17
👖 Brand Jeans	$62.7	$67.9
👟 Brand Sneakers	$85.6	$80
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$896	$182
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$27310	$4747

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Beijing

Distance	City	Cost of living
50 km or 31 mi	Langfang	$733
58 km or 36 mi	Zhuozhou	$713
58 km or 36 mi	Sanhe	$772
78 km or 49 mi	Gaobeidian	$633
87 km or 54 mi	Bazhou	$650
109 km or 68 mi	Tianjin	$688
135 km or 84 mi	Renqiu	$583
137 km or 85 mi	Zunhua	$678
139 km or 87 mi	Baoding	$466
151 km or 94 mi	Binhai	$667
155 km or 97 mi	Tangshan	$677
163 km or 101 mi	Zhangjiakou	$658
164 km or 102 mi	Hejian	$587
176 km or 110 mi	Chengde	$700
182 km or 113 mi	Cangzhou	$633
189 km or 117 mi	Huanghua	$607
189 km or 118 mi	Anguo	$539
196 km or 122 mi	Dingzhou	$549
197 km or 122 mi	Qian'an	$643
198 km or 123 mi	Luanzhou	$637
204 km or 127 mi	Botou	$594
224 km or 139 mi	Shenzhou	$592
228 km or 142 mi	Xinle	$525
229 km or 142 mi	Pingquan	$633
239 km or 148 mi	Jinzhou	$545
241 km or 150 mi	Xinji	$569
249 km or 155 mi	Gaocheng	$527
249 km or 155 mi	Hengshui	$650
252 km or 156 mi	Laoling	$572
263 km or 164 mi	Shijiazhuang	$486
265 km or 165 mi	Datong	$707
272 km or 169 mi	Jizhou	$598
273 km or 169 mi	Qinhuangdao	$667
273 km or 170 mi	Dezhou	$621
281 km or 175 mi	Fengzhen	$640
282 km or 175 mi	Huairen	$643
294 km or 183 mi	Lingyuan	$620
296 km or 184 mi	Nangong	$587
302 km or 187 mi	Ulanqab	$640
314 km or 195 mi	Binzhou	$506

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$559
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$556
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$531
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$497
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$467
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$487
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$537
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$636
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$488
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$547
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$437
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$734
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$567
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$427
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$468
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$501
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$536
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$516
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$605
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$448
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$494
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$456
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$660
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$646
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$559
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$493
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$545
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$623
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$500
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$493
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$517
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$402
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$526
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$518
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$614
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$814
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$562
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$414
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$596
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$632