Crete vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Crete	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1303	$510
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3083	$1309
🏠 One person rent	$612	$203
🏘️ Family rent	$1051	$340
🍽️ Food expenses	$461	$202
🚐 Transport expenses	$115	$43.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1100	$434
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	26 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	32	61
😀 Quality of life	63	63
🏙️ Population	623K	1.42M

The cost of living in Crete is 155% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 4484th and 8604th ($1303 vs $510) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 9th and 22nd in Greece and Ukraine, respectively. Check Greece vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.8 months in Crete compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Crete ranked 30th best city to live in Greece vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 5605th and 5547th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Crete vs Kharkiv

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	Crete	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$14.4	$5.68
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$57.3	$19.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.3	$4.93
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.16	$1.03
☕ Cappuccino	$3.93	$1.24
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.03	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$556	$206
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$422	$125
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1017	$358
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$771	$223
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$126	$55.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$195	$85.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$37	$5.43
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.4%	18.62%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4155	$1364
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3011	$698
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.69	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$58.8	$10.1
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$13.8	$3.56
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$2.1	$1.27
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.9	$1
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.45	$0.54
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.69	$0.96
🥚 Eggs, x12	$5.1	$1.5
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.4	$7.62
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.9	$3.82
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.8	$6.98
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.3	$0.84
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.15	$1.66
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.52	$1.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.96	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.27	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.49	$0.51
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.49	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.38	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$8.47	$4.76
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.05	$0.78
🚬 Cigarette pack	$5.44	$2.05
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.79	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.27	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.41	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.27	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$53.4	$21.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$9.06	$4.2
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$38.9	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$11.2	$3.01
👖 Brand Jeans	$95	$54.4
👟 Brand Sneakers	$89.7	$83.2
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$432	$351
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$5111	$3156

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Cities near Crete

Distance	City	Cost of living
22 km or 14 mi	Heraklion	$1256
39 km or 24 mi	Rethymno	$1174
83 km or 51 mi	Chania	$1245
132 km or 82 mi	Santorini	$1835
241 km or 150 mi	Mykonos	$2056
298 km or 185 mi	Bodrum	$926
300 km or 187 mi	Voula	$1477
303 km or 189 mi	Glyfada	$1636
306 km or 190 mi	Argyroupoli	$1438
310 km or 193 mi	Palaio Faliro	$1386
311 km or 193 mi	Nea Smyrni	$1281
312 km or 194 mi	Kallithea	$1291
313 km or 195 mi	Piraeus	$1177
314 km or 195 mi	Kalamata	$1162
315 km or 196 mi	Athens	$1436
316 km or 196 mi	Nikaia	$1170
317 km or 197 mi	Salamina	$1055
320 km or 199 mi	Nea Ionia	$1265
320 km or 199 mi	Peristeri	$1192
320 km or 199 mi	Nea Filadelfeia	$1259
323 km or 201 mi	Kifissia	$1415
324 km or 202 mi	Rhodes	$1284
327 km or 203 mi	Eleusis	$1127
328 km or 204 mi	Aspropyrgos	$1041
332 km or 207 mi	Tripoli	$1143
340 km or 211 mi	Corinth	$1026
349 km or 217 mi	Marmaris	$884
351 km or 218 mi	Derna	$361
353 km or 220 mi	Kusadasi	$770
358 km or 223 mi	Chios	$1254
369 km or 229 mi	Chalcis	$1224
369 km or 229 mi	Tobruk	$361
377 km or 234 mi	Mugla	$799
386 km or 240 mi	Aydin	$595
399 km or 248 mi	Izmir	$1046
399 km or 248 mi	Tire	$686
407 km or 253 mi	Fethiye	$846
421 km or 262 mi	Nazilli	$652
431 km or 268 mi	Patras	$1111
432 km or 269 mi	Manisa	$760

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$718
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$479
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$496
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$639
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$649
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$790
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$633
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$656
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$440
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$650
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$516
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$501
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$732
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$707
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$498
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$503
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$660
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$616
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$539
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$545
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$665
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$570
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$629
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$516
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$652
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$851
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$718
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$879
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$497
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$475
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$516
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$420
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$672
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$837
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$582
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$709
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$586