Columbus vs Kazan - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Columbus	Kazan
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2181	$868
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5273	$2109
🏠 One person rent	$1256	$458
🏘️ Family rent	$2214	$789
🍽️ Food expenses	$662	$285
🚐 Transport expenses	$125	$48.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3957	$809
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	10 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	72	54
😀 Quality of life	90	65
🏙️ Population	906K	1.33M

The cost of living in Columbus is 151% more expensive than in Kazan. Cities ranked 1512th and 6377th ($2181 vs $868) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1292nd and 16th in the United States and Russia, respectively. Check the United States vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.8 months in Columbus compared to 0.9 months in Kazan. Columbus ranked 64th best city to live in the United States vs Kazan ranked 5th in Russia, while ranked 217th and 5213th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Columbus vs Kazan

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	Columbus	Kazan
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$19.3	$7.32
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$68	$39.9
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$12.3	$6.13
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$6.21	$3.66
☕ Cappuccino	$4.98	$2.88
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.74	$1.14
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1298	$543
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$973	$351
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2399	$961
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1787	$619
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$157	$62.5
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$244	$94.7
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$60.7	$6.3
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.42%	18.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3028	$3331
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2566	$2289
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.01	$0.53
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$61.3	$24.5
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$15.4	$3.37
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.83	$0.7
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.92	$1.06
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$3.13	$0.67
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.38	$1.45
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.13	$1.93
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.8	$10.7
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.4	$4.69
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.1	$9.12
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.06	$1.92
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.14	$1.81
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.2	$2.4
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.57	$2.35
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.03	$0.66
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.6	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.36	$0.4
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$3.25	$1.65
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$18.5	$7.93
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.88	$0.93
🚬 Cigarette pack	$9.33	$3.06
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.22	$4.56
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.75	$2.69
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$4.04	$1.05
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.23	$1.34
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$40.5	$23.6
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$11.7	$5.48
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$86.1	$10.1
💇 Haircut, simple	$19.9	$6.4
👖 Brand Jeans	$56.1	$65
👟 Brand Sneakers	$86.6	$99.5
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1105	$247
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$28983	$14288

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Cities near Columbus

Distance	City	Cost of living
8.6 km or 5.3 mi	Upper Arlington	$2105
11 km or 7.1 mi	Grove	$2091
13 km or 8.3 mi	Gahanna	$2020
15 km or 9 mi	Hilliard	$2094
17 km or 11 mi	Reynoldsburg	$2030
18 km or 11 mi	Dublin	$2084
19 km or 12 mi	Westerville	$1836
22 km or 13 mi	Pickerington	$2014
38 km or 24 mi	Delaware	$2028
43 km or 27 mi	Lancaster	$1951
43 km or 27 mi	Marysville	$2019
51 km or 32 mi	Newark	$1932
69 km or 43 mi	Springfield	$1933
70 km or 43 mi	Chillicothe	$1933
70 km or 44 mi	Marion	$1954
84 km or 52 mi	Zanesville	$1928
86 km or 53 mi	Xenia	$1918
89 km or 55 mi	Fairborn	$1842
94 km or 59 mi	Beavercreek	$1918
97 km or 60 mi	Huber Heights	$1934
97 km or 60 mi	Mansfield	$1697
98 km or 61 mi	Riverside	$1947
103 km or 64 mi	Kettering	$1961
103 km or 64 mi	Troy	$1965
104 km or 65 mi	Athens	$1571
104 km or 65 mi	Centerville	$1942
105 km or 65 mi	Dayton	$1917
105 km or 65 mi	Sidney	$2025
108 km or 67 mi	Piqua	$1980
112 km or 69 mi	Trotwood	$1957
116 km or 72 mi	Ashland	$1684
120 km or 74 mi	Lebanon	$1850
128 km or 80 mi	Middletown	$1495
128 km or 80 mi	Lima	$2188
130 km or 81 mi	Wooster	$1482
131 km or 81 mi	Mason	$1899
132 km or 82 mi	Findlay	$1922
136 km or 84 mi	Portsmouth	$1493
144 km or 90 mi	New Philadelphia	$1743
146 km or 91 mi	Norwalk	$2061

Cities near Kazan

Distance	City	Cost of living
120 km or 75 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$693
122 km or 76 mi	Cheboksary	$772
170 km or 106 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$681
171 km or 106 mi	Ulyanovsk	$641
202 km or 125 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$755
224 km or 139 mi	Almetyevsk	$709
254 km or 158 mi	Tolyatti	$686
279 km or 173 mi	Izhevsk	$635
295 km or 183 mi	Syzran	$692
297 km or 185 mi	Samara	$796
308 km or 191 mi	Saransk	$719
314 km or 195 mi	Kirov	$536
323 km or 200 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$882
355 km or 221 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$697
392 km or 243 mi	Penza	$537
426 km or 265 mi	Balakovo	$658
450 km or 279 mi	Ufa	$802
498 km or 310 mi	Perm	$714
500 km or 311 mi	Sterlitamak	$698
515 km or 320 mi	Salavat	$725
516 km or 321 mi	Saratov	$783
517 km or 321 mi	Ivanovo	$615
520 km or 323 mi	Engels	$758
528 km or 328 mi	Oral	$548
542 km or 337 mi	Vladimir	$650
544 km or 338 mi	Kostroma	$765
595 km or 370 mi	Orenburg	$695
600 km or 373 mi	Yaroslavl	$672
604 km or 375 mi	Tambov	$672
610 km or 379 mi	Ryazan	$692
661 km or 411 mi	Syktyvkar	$620
666 km or 414 mi	Elektrostal	$863
668 km or 415 mi	Zlatoust	$754
669 km or 415 mi	Vologda	$544
672 km or 417 mi	Rybinsk	$678
692 km or 430 mi	Magnitogorsk	$656
697 km or 433 mi	Balashikha	$898
697 km or 433 mi	Miass	$763
700 km or 435 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$843
702 km or 436 mi	Lyubertsy	$917