Damascus vs Kazan - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Damascus	Kazan
🚶 Cost of living one person	$638	$734
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1494	$1795
🏠 One person rent	$291	$375
🏘️ Family rent	$523	$716
🍽️ Food expenses	$232	$242
🚐 Transport expenses	$80.7	$47.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$55.7	$692
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	25	54
😀 Quality of life	34	60
🏙️ Population	2.69M	1.26M

The cost of living in Damascus is 13% less expensive than in Kazan. Cities ranked 7300th and 6742nd ($638 vs $734) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 21st in Syria and Russia, respectively. Check Syria vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.1 months in Damascus compared to 0.9 months in Kazan. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Kazan ranked 7th in Russia, while ranked 7688th and 5162nd among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Kazan

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	Damascus	Kazan
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.01	$6.84
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$34.8	$31.3
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.96	$5.12
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.5	$3.39
☕ Cappuccino	$1.26	$2.26
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.25	$0.9
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$262	$421
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$154	$282
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$590	$861
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$330	$561
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$48.5	$59
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$74.5	$89.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$67.2	$5.82
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.68%	15.99%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1862	$2754
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$879	$1894
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.1	$0.44
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$16.9	$25.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.9	$3.29
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.43	$0.63
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$0.85
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.63	$0.58
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.76	$1.28
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.76	$1.51
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.37	$8.72
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.69	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.1	$7.93
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$1.32
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$1.94
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.86	$2.15
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.59	$0.56
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.62	$0.5
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.4	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.13	$1.49
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.52	$6.78
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$0.76
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.03	$2.29
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.24	$4.16
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.87	$2.44
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$0.97
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$1.22
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$13.2	$21.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.03	$4.57
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.81	$8.97
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.82	$5.57
👖 Brand Jeans	$21.8	$61.2
👟 Brand Sneakers	$47.5	$95.3
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$48.6	$216
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1666	$4497

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Cities near Damascus

Distance	City	Cost of living
51 km or 32 mi	Zahle	$912
75 km or 47 mi	Kiryat Shmona	$1709
81 km or 50 mi	Jounieh	$1020
83 km or 52 mi	Sidon	$798
83 km or 52 mi	Beirut	$1255
96 km or 59 mi	Safed	$1681
105 km or 65 mi	Tyre	$573
108 km or 67 mi	Tiberias	$1600
110 km or 68 mi	Ma'alot-Tarshiha	$1647
111 km or 69 mi	Tripoli	$776
114 km or 71 mi	Irbid	$679
115 km or 72 mi	Arraba	$1633
116 km or 72 mi	Karmiel	$1531
117 km or 73 mi	Sakhnin	$1612
125 km or 78 mi	Tamra	$1655
125 km or 78 mi	Nahariya	$1616
126 km or 78 mi	Nof HaGalil	$1709
129 km or 80 mi	Nazareth	$1732
130 km or 81 mi	Acre	$1502
131 km or 81 mi	Shefa-'Amr	$1677
135 km or 84 mi	Migdal HaEmek	$1742
136 km or 84 mi	Kiryat Motzkin	$1666
136 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Ata	$1647
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Yam	$1657
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Bialik	$1666
137 km or 85 mi	Afula	$1652
141 km or 88 mi	Homs	$456
142 km or 88 mi	Nesher	$1593
143 km or 89 mi	Jerash	$608
145 km or 90 mi	Haifa	$1645
145 km or 90 mi	Yokneam Illit	$1778
154 km or 95 mi	Umm al-Fahm	$1756
163 km or 101 mi	Zikhron Ya'akov	$1731
168 km or 105 mi	Baqa-Jatt	$1782
169 km or 105 mi	Pardes Hanna-Karkur	$1728
173 km or 107 mi	Al-Salt	$552
173 km or 108 mi	Nablus	$877
174 km or 108 mi	Hadera	$1576
177 km or 110 mi	Amman	$994
184 km or 114 mi	Tayibe	$1902

Cities near Kazan

Distance	City	Cost of living
120 km or 75 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
122 km or 76 mi	Cheboksary	$592
170 km or 106 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
171 km or 106 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
202 km or 125 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
224 km or 139 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
254 km or 158 mi	Tolyatti	$612
279 km or 173 mi	Izhevsk	$637
295 km or 183 mi	Syzran	$590
297 km or 185 mi	Samara	$656
308 km or 191 mi	Saransk	$438
314 km or 195 mi	Kirov	$508
323 km or 200 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
355 km or 221 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$636
392 km or 243 mi	Penza	$524
426 km or 265 mi	Balakovo	$605
450 km or 279 mi	Ufa	$672
498 km or 310 mi	Perm	$595
500 km or 311 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
515 km or 320 mi	Salavat	$538
516 km or 321 mi	Saratov	$555
517 km or 321 mi	Ivanovo	$554
520 km or 323 mi	Engels	$557
528 km or 328 mi	Oral	$549
542 km or 337 mi	Vladimir	$681
544 km or 338 mi	Kostroma	$540
595 km or 370 mi	Orenburg	$534
600 km or 373 mi	Yaroslavl	$523
604 km or 375 mi	Tambov	$561
610 km or 379 mi	Ryazan	$564
661 km or 411 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
666 km or 414 mi	Elektrostal	$719
668 km or 415 mi	Zlatoust	$600
669 km or 415 mi	Vologda	$528
672 km or 417 mi	Rybinsk	$675
692 km or 430 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
697 km or 433 mi	Balashikha	$676
697 km or 433 mi	Miass	$596
700 km or 435 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
702 km or 436 mi	Lyubertsy	$867