Brisbane vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 11, 2026

	Brisbane	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2269	$499
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5424	$1275
🏠 One person rent	$1398	$200
🏘️ Family rent	$2462	$342
🍽️ Food expenses	$574	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$151	$43
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4258	$459
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	66	61
😀 Quality of life	98	63
🏙️ Population	2.71M	1.42M

The cost of living in Brisbane is 355% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 1349th and 8722nd ($2269 vs $499) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 11th and 24th in Australia and Ukraine, respectively. Check Australia vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.9 months in Brisbane compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Brisbane ranked 3rd best city to live in Australia vs Kharkiv ranked 4th in Ukraine, while ranked 3rd and 5605th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Brisbane vs Kharkiv

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	Brisbane	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$15.5	$5.46
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$68.3	$21
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.8	$4.39
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$8.04	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$4.09	$1.23
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.89	$0.72
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1660	$218
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1147	$122
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$3002	$392
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2079	$222
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$94.2	$52.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$144	$80.7
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$54.2	$5.94
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.78%	17.61%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$7935	$1150
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5145	$595
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.36	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$27.8	$8.47
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$19	$3.84
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.37	$1.25
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.56	$0.97
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.28	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.94	$0.97
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.95	$1.46
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.35	$7.2
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.06	$3.72
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.2	$7.05
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.73	$0.87
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.1	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.11	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.91	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.66	$0.57
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.56	$0.5
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.99	$0.36
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.83	$0.74
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$14	$4.6
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.89	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$24.1	$2.2
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$7.94	$4.09
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.16	$1.33
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.47	$0.65
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.57	$1.27
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$48	$20.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$14	$4.06
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$61.1	$7.93
💇 Haircut, simple	$20.8	$2.88
👖 Brand Jeans	$81.5	$55.1
👟 Brand Sneakers	$112	$77.1
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1949	$299
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$12459	$2953

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Cities near Brisbane

Distance	City	Cost of living
31 km or 19 mi	Ipswich	$1813
45 km or 28 mi	Caboolture	$1988
66 km or 41 mi	Southport	$2352
71 km or 44 mi	Gold Coast	$2528
75 km or 47 mi	Caloundra	$1864
91 km or 57 mi	Sunshine Coast	$1835
107 km or 66 mi	Toowoomba	$1766
143 km or 89 mi	Byron Bay	$2703
243 km or 151 mi	Hervey Bay	$1864
299 km or 186 mi	Bundaberg	$1727
315 km or 196 mi	Coffs Harbour	$2172
362 km or 225 mi	Armidale	$1288
441 km or 274 mi	Gladstone	$1640
441 km or 274 mi	Port Macquarie	$1796
520 km or 323 mi	Rockhampton	$1635
618 km or 384 mi	Newcastle	$1997
682 km or 424 mi	Dubbo	$1867
719 km or 447 mi	Dee Why	$2379
722 km or 449 mi	Kellyville	$2050
730 km or 453 mi	Blacktown	$1710
732 km or 455 mi	Parramatta	$2482
733 km or 455 mi	Sydney	$2844
740 km or 460 mi	Bathurst	$1699
748 km or 465 mi	Orange	$1477
801 km or 498 mi	Wollongong	$1695
869 km or 540 mi	Goulburn	$1821
945 km or 587 mi	Canberra	$2223
1006 km or 625 mi	Wagga Wagga	$1583
1009 km or 627 mi	Griffith	$1824
1111 km or 690 mi	Townsville	$1839
1224 km or 761 mi	Shepparton	$1815
1278 km or 794 mi	Mildura	$1904
1320 km or 820 mi	Bendigo	$1487
1337 km or 831 mi	Traralgon	$1979
1367 km or 849 mi	Sunbury	$1928
1372 km or 853 mi	Pakenham	$1896
1375 km or 855 mi	Melbourne	$2496
1376 km or 855 mi	Berwick	$1860
1376 km or 855 mi	South Yarra	$1829
1377 km or 856 mi	Dandenong	$1894

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