Damascus vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 01, 2024

	Damascus	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$583	$535
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1433	$1428
🏠 One person rent	$225	$222
🏘️ Family rent	$409	$465
🍽️ Food expenses	$203	$194
🚐 Transport expenses	$117	$44.6
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$56.5	$386
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Good
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	25	60
😀 Quality of life	36	57
🏙️ Population	2.5M	1.43M

The cost of living in Damascus is 9% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 7822nd and 8242nd ($583 vs $535) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 10th in Syria and Ukraine, respectively. Check Syria vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.1 months in Damascus compared to 0.7 months in Kharkiv. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 7665th and 5715th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Kharkiv

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	Damascus	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$4.03	$4.24
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$24	$24
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.52	$5.02
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.51	$1.11
☕ Cappuccino	$1.29	$1.19
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.95	$0.72
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$270	$231
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$126	$142
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$474	$545
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$293	$330
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$19.9	$56.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$30.2	$87.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$49.7	$4.93
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	11.93%	17.28%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1756	$1351
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1228	$762
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.08	$0.21
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$17	$8.06
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$11.4	$4.41
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$2.66	$1.27
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.01	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.1	$0.54
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.55	$1.16
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.6	$1.78
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.88	$8.19
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.76	$3.79
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.17	$5.91
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.04	$0.58
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.8	$1.61
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.7	$1.67
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.82	$1.73
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.55	$0.36
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.41	$0.74
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.33	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.14	$0.81
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.47	$5.27
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.01	$0.76
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.03	$1.78
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.25	$2.61
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.87	$1.49
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$0.8
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$1.17
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$12.3	$17.9
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.01	$3.46
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.85	$9.03
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.79	$2.44
👖 Brand Jeans	$30.6	$57.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$50.3	$132
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$94.1	$303
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1634	$1310

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Cities near Damascus

Distance	City	Cost of living
51 km or 32 mi	Zahle	$882
75 km or 47 mi	Kiryat Shmona	$1673
81 km or 50 mi	Jounieh	$982
83 km or 52 mi	Sidon	$770
83 km or 52 mi	Beirut	$1195
96 km or 59 mi	Safed	$1622
105 km or 65 mi	Tyre	$633
108 km or 67 mi	Tiberias	$1427
110 km or 68 mi	Ma'alot-Tarshiha	$1633
111 km or 69 mi	Tripoli	$665
114 km or 71 mi	Irbid	$625
115 km or 72 mi	Arraba	$1635
116 km or 72 mi	Karmiel	$1617
117 km or 73 mi	Sakhnin	$1645
125 km or 78 mi	Tamra	$1622
125 km or 78 mi	Nahariya	$1570
126 km or 78 mi	Nof HaGalil	$1660
129 km or 80 mi	Nazareth	$1689
130 km or 81 mi	Acre	$1447
131 km or 81 mi	Shefa-'Amr	$1619
135 km or 84 mi	Migdal HaEmek	$1674
136 km or 84 mi	Kiryat Motzkin	$1610
136 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Ata	$1594
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Yam	$1601
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Bialik	$1594
137 km or 85 mi	Afula	$1660
141 km or 88 mi	Homs	$528
142 km or 88 mi	Nesher	$1467
143 km or 89 mi	Jerash	$602
145 km or 90 mi	Haifa	$1567
145 km or 90 mi	Yokneam Illit	$1744
154 km or 95 mi	Umm al-Fahm	$1728
163 km or 101 mi	Zikhron Ya'akov	$1718
168 km or 105 mi	Baqa-Jatt	$1746
169 km or 105 mi	Pardes Hanna-Karkur	$1725
173 km or 107 mi	Al-Salt	$679
173 km or 108 mi	Nablus	$849
174 km or 108 mi	Hadera	$1593
177 km or 110 mi	Amman	$981
184 km or 114 mi	Tayibe	$1850

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$439
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$504
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$425
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$525
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$419
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$446
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$462
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$637
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$509
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$560
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$433
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$543
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$498
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$498
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$476
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$511
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$420
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$457
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$485
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$466
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$535
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$498
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$493
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$451
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$401
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$423
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$443
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$559
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$601
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$576
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$760
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$451
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$406
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$369
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$401
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$501
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$526
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$490
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$531
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$495