Crete vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 10, 2024

	Crete	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1186	$503
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2974	$1307
🏠 One person rent	$532	$210
🏘️ Family rent	$1056	$392
🍽️ Food expenses	$445	$191
🚐 Transport expenses	$99.6	$39.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1043	$361
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	26 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	33	60
😀 Quality of life	72	56
🏙️ Population	623K	1.42M

The cost of living in Crete is 136% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 4641st and 8657th ($1186 vs $503) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 17th and 17th in Greece and Ukraine, respectively. Check Greece vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Crete compared to 0.7 months in Kharkiv. Crete ranked 6th best city to live in Greece vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 1944th and 5755th 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	$13.3	$5.27
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$49.9	$22.1
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.7	$4.16
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.99	$1.11
☕ Cappuccino	$4.1	$1.2
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.08	$0.62
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$434	$223
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$352	$135
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$932	$464
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$795	$265
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$128	$52.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$199	$82.5
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$35.1	$4.8
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.44%	17.47%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3592	$1198
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3109	$685
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.46	$0.19
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$44.5	$7.29
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$12.5	$3.44
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$2.12	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.96	$0.95
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.44	$0.49
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.45	$1.06
🥚 Eggs, x12	$5.12	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.5	$7.34
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.4	$3.62
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.6	$5.2
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.34	$0.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.02	$1.57
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.55	$1.61
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.08	$1.68
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.31	$0.43
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.75	$0.63
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.45	$0.34
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.29	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$9	$4.52
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.99	$0.69
🚬 Cigarette pack	$5.18	$1.74
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.44	$4.28
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.1	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.32	$0.67
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.14	$1.32
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$45.2	$18.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$8.42	$4.1
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$37.9	$9.07
💇 Haircut, simple	$11.2	$3.03
👖 Brand Jeans	$94.7	$59.1
👟 Brand Sneakers	$84.9	$84.3
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$407	$284
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3997	$2513

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Cities near Crete

Distance	City	Cost of living
22 km or 14 mi	Heraklion	$1137
39 km or 24 mi	Rethymno	$1120
83 km or 51 mi	Chania	$1257
132 km or 82 mi	Santorini	$1769
241 km or 150 mi	Mykonos	$1956
298 km or 185 mi	Bodrum	$868
300 km or 187 mi	Voula	$1399
303 km or 189 mi	Glyfada	$1528
306 km or 190 mi	Argyroupoli	$1399
310 km or 193 mi	Palaio Faliro	$1346
311 km or 193 mi	Nea Smyrni	$1258
312 km or 194 mi	Kallithea	$1257
313 km or 195 mi	Piraeus	$1143
314 km or 195 mi	Kalamata	$1123
315 km or 196 mi	Athens	$1366
316 km or 196 mi	Nikaia	$1146
317 km or 197 mi	Salamina	$1054
320 km or 199 mi	Nea Ionia	$1278
320 km or 199 mi	Peristeri	$1228
320 km or 199 mi	Nea Filadelfeia	$1262
323 km or 201 mi	Kifissia	$1459
324 km or 202 mi	Rhodes	$1095
327 km or 203 mi	Eleusis	$1106
328 km or 204 mi	Aspropyrgos	$1045
332 km or 207 mi	Tripoli	$1060
340 km or 211 mi	Corinth	$1005
349 km or 217 mi	Marmaris	$1077
351 km or 218 mi	Derna	$408
353 km or 220 mi	Kusadasi	$743
358 km or 223 mi	Chios	$1198
369 km or 229 mi	Chalcis	$1148
369 km or 229 mi	Tobruk	$407
377 km or 234 mi	Mugla	$741
386 km or 240 mi	Aydin	$638
399 km or 248 mi	Izmir	$892
399 km or 248 mi	Tire	$663
407 km or 253 mi	Fethiye	$876
421 km or 262 mi	Nazilli	$600
431 km or 268 mi	Patras	$1080
432 km or 269 mi	Manisa	$612

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$451
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$473
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$449
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$533
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$415
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$447
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$457
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$679
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$506
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$576
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$421
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$546
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$456
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$469
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$405
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$508
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$419
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$432
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$516
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$471
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$514
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$491
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$513
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$465
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$401
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$450
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$422
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$534
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$627
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$572
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$795
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$420
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$469
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$375
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$416
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$508
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$507
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$490
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$537
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$529