Cairo vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Cairo	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$417	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1080	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$154	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$315	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$166	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$38	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$165	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	12 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	83	46
😀 Quality of life	58	60
🏙️ Population	9.61M	1.47M

The cost of living in Cairo is 46% less expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 8923rd and 6596th ($417 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 2nd and 14th in Egypt and Russia, respectively. Check Egypt vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.4 months in Cairo compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Cairo ranked 1st best city to live in Egypt vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 5545th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Cairo vs Yekaterinburg

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	Cairo	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$3.9	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$18.6	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.73	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.26	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$1.5	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.34	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$185	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$113	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$386	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$253	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$16.8	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$25.8	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$10.1	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	14.49%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$690	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$453	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.3	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$7.68	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.17	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.29	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.89	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.6	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.65	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.51	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.48	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.36	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.58	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.49	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.55	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.42	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.39	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.48	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.41	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.13	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.72	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.33	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.13	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.84	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$1.46	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.31	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.87	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.69	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$17.3	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$2.97	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$11	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.86	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$37	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$101	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$90.2	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1985	$4946

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Cities near Cairo

Distance	City	Cost of living
5.9 km or 3.6 mi	Giza	$318
8.1 km or 5 mi	Shubra El Kheima	$365
26 km or 16 mi	Helwan	$335
46 km or 28 mi	Benha	$300
60 km or 37 mi	Shibin El Kom	$305
62 km or 39 mi	Zagazig	$307
84 km or 52 mi	Tanta	$288
93 km or 58 mi	Faiyum	$325
101 km or 63 mi	El Mahalla El Kubra	$269
111 km or 69 mi	Beni Suef	$319
111 km or 69 mi	Mansoura	$301
115 km or 71 mi	Ismailia	$295
125 km or 78 mi	Suez	$272
133 km or 83 mi	Damanhur	$268
161 km or 100 mi	Kafr El Dawwar	$289
161 km or 100 mi	Damietta	$298
166 km or 103 mi	Port Said	$276
179 km or 111 mi	Alexandria	$316
224 km or 139 mi	Minya	$339
319 km or 198 mi	Asyut	$290
347 km or 216 mi	Gaza	$640
351 km or 218 mi	Ofakim	$1684
354 km or 220 mi	Netivot	$1742
360 km or 223 mi	Sderot	$1732
361 km or 224 mi	Dahab	$381
362 km or 225 mi	Eilat	$1577
365 km or 226 mi	Ashkelon	$1511
366 km or 227 mi	Beersheba	$1471
367 km or 228 mi	Rahat	$1686
368 km or 229 mi	Aqaba	$809
379 km or 235 mi	Ashdod	$1837
379 km or 235 mi	Kiryat Gat	$1757
380 km or 236 mi	Dimona	$1716
381 km or 236 mi	El Gouna	$336
383 km or 238 mi	Kiryat Malakhi	$1809
384 km or 239 mi	Sharm El Sheikh	$464
390 km or 242 mi	Yavne	$1884
391 km or 243 mi	Sohag	$360
396 km or 246 mi	Dura	$813
397 km or 246 mi	Rehovot	$1811

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