Brisbane vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: June 21, 2026

	Brisbane	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2323	$1163
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5585	$2729
🏠 One person rent	$1439	$633
🏘️ Family rent	$2525	$1107
🍽️ Food expenses	$586	$368
🚐 Transport expenses	$144	$53.1
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4313	$1033
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	66	48
😀 Quality of life	97	64
🏙️ Population	2.71M	1.47M

The cost of living in Brisbane is 100% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 1241st and 4849th ($2323 vs $1163) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 11th and 4th in Australia and Russia, respectively. Check Australia vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.9 months in Brisbane compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Brisbane ranked 3rd best city to live in Australia vs Yekaterinburg ranked 5th in Russia, while ranked 3rd and 5361st among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Brisbane vs Yekaterinburg

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	Brisbane	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$15.8	$14.4
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$71.2	$56.9
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.3	$6.85
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$8.69	$2.26
☕ Cappuccino	$4.32	$3.27
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.85	$1.64
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1733	$737
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1173	$486
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$3028	$1319
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2142	$877
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$98.5	$84.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$151	$128
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$54.9	$12.7
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.91%	21.97%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$8341	$2871
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5970	$1871
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.35	$0.53
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$23.5	$20.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$18.6	$4.2
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.39	$0.91
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.63	$1.24
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.24	$0.73
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.91	$1.43
🥚 Eggs, x12	$5.18	$1.77
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.38	$14.2
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.56	$5.64
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.6	$13.4
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.14	$2.17
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.12	$1.97
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.97	$1.81
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.11	$3.18
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.87	$0.76
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.54	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$0.65
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.95	$2.22
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$13.2	$8.24
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.98	$1.32
🚬 Cigarette pack	$24.3	$3.5
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$8.15	$4.32
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.18	$3.99
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.49	$0.86
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.62	$1.65
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$53.3	$56.8
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$14	$6.22
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$61.5	$20.2
💇 Haircut, simple	$24	$5.59
👖 Brand Jeans	$87.8	$91.2
👟 Brand Sneakers	$115	$141
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$2164	$381
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$13265	$7933

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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 Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$954
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$952
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$952
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$757
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$786
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$780
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$791
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$1024
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$713
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$913
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$656
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$702
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$708
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$788
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$840
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$868
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$771
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$830
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$575
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$615
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$812
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$648
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$763
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$981
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$606
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$727
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$754
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$845
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$789
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$705
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$749
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$819
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$620
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$792
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$784
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$823
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$748
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$834
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$1051
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$754