Brisbane vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: June 21, 2026

	Brisbane	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2323	$501
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5585	$1256
🏠 One person rent	$1439	$204
🏘️ Family rent	$2525	$336
🍽️ Food expenses	$586	$194
🚐 Transport expenses	$144	$45.4
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4313	$493
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	66	61
😀 Quality of life	97	63
🏙️ Population	2.71M	1.42M

The cost of living in Brisbane is 364% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 1241st and 8662nd ($2323 vs $501) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 11th and 23rd 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 1 months in Kharkiv. Brisbane ranked 3rd best city to live in Australia vs Kharkiv ranked 4th in Ukraine, while ranked 3rd and 5430th 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	$15.8	$5.32
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$71.2	$19.8
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.3	$4.26
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$8.69	$0.99
☕ Cappuccino	$4.32	$1.23
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.85	$0.83
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1733	$218
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1173	$127
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$3028	$392
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2142	$213
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$98.5	$52.8
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$151	$81.1
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$54.9	$6.26
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.91%	17.68%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$8341	$1073
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5970	$594
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.35	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$23.5	$9.81
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$18.6	$3.9
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.39	$1.31
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.63	$0.95
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.24	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.91	$0.95
🥚 Eggs, x12	$5.18	$1.56
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.38	$7.23
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.56	$3.74
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.6	$7.17
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.14	$0.97
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.12	$1.59
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.97	$1.69
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.11	$1.77
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.87	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.54	$0.48
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.95	$0.73
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$13.2	$4.45
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.98	$0.71
🚬 Cigarette pack	$24.3	$2.17
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$8.15	$3.95
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.18	$1.3
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.49	$0.62
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.62	$1.22
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$53.3	$18.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$14	$4.02
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$61.5	$7.98
💇 Haircut, simple	$24	$2.77
👖 Brand Jeans	$87.8	$52.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$115	$76
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$2164	$285
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$13265	$2841

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Cities near Brisbane

Distance	City	Cost of living
31 km or 19 mi	Ipswich	$1825
45 km or 28 mi	Caboolture	$1992
66 km or 41 mi	Southport	$2341
71 km or 44 mi	Gold Coast	$2530
75 km or 47 mi	Caloundra	$1863
91 km or 57 mi	Sunshine Coast	$1838
107 km or 66 mi	Toowoomba	$1720
143 km or 89 mi	Byron Bay	$2672
243 km or 151 mi	Hervey Bay	$1883
299 km or 186 mi	Bundaberg	$1720
315 km or 196 mi	Coffs Harbour	$2132
362 km or 225 mi	Armidale	$1273
441 km or 274 mi	Gladstone	$1643
441 km or 274 mi	Port Macquarie	$1786
520 km or 323 mi	Rockhampton	$1642
618 km or 384 mi	Newcastle	$1995
682 km or 424 mi	Dubbo	$1855
719 km or 447 mi	Dee Why	$2354
722 km or 449 mi	Kellyville	$2040
730 km or 453 mi	Blacktown	$1709
732 km or 455 mi	Parramatta	$2481
733 km or 455 mi	Sydney	$2844
740 km or 460 mi	Bathurst	$1701
748 km or 465 mi	Orange	$1460
801 km or 498 mi	Wollongong	$1695
869 km or 540 mi	Goulburn	$1795
945 km or 587 mi	Canberra	$2258
1006 km or 625 mi	Wagga Wagga	$1608
1009 km or 627 mi	Griffith	$1825
1111 km or 690 mi	Townsville	$2015
1224 km or 761 mi	Shepparton	$1816
1278 km or 794 mi	Mildura	$1905
1320 km or 820 mi	Bendigo	$1493
1337 km or 831 mi	Traralgon	$2000
1367 km or 849 mi	Sunbury	$1933
1372 km or 853 mi	Pakenham	$1936
1375 km or 855 mi	Melbourne	$2543
1376 km or 855 mi	Berwick	$1915
1376 km or 855 mi	South Yarra	$1834
1377 km or 856 mi	Dandenong	$1913

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$746
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$475
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$518
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$618
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$539
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$611
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$685
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$749
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$642
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$628
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$490
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$621
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$525
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$471
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$790
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$766
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$448
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$454
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$730
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$577
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$518
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$554
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$757
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$635
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$732
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$479
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$779
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$891
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$855
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$853
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$464
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$589
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$529
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$409
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$694
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$974
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$691
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$798
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$591