Damascus vs Kyiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Damascus	Kyiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$638	$850
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1494	$2107
🏠 One person rent	$291	$445
🏘️ Family rent	$523	$817
🍽️ Food expenses	$232	$252
🚐 Transport expenses	$80.7	$66.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$55.7	$571
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	7 km
🎓 Higher education	25	71
😀 Quality of life	34	64
🏙️ Population	2.69M	2.95M

The cost of living in Damascus is 25% less expensive than in Kyiv. Cities ranked 7300th and 6262nd ($638 vs $850) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 1st 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 Kyiv. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Kyiv ranked 1st in Ukraine, while ranked 7688th and 4484th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Kyiv

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	Damascus	Kyiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.01	$7.61
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$34.8	$32.8
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.96	$6.26
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.5	$1.43
☕ Cappuccino	$1.26	$1.51
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.25	$0.65
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$262	$515
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$154	$336
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$590	$1066
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$330	$617
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$48.5	$67.3
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$74.5	$103
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$67.2	$6.37
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.68%	18.89%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1862	$2228
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$879	$1274
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.1	$0.19
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$16.9	$14.3
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.9	$5.23
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.43	$1.31
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$1.19
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.63	$0.67
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.76	$1.28
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.76	$1.81
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.37	$9.3
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.69	$4.21
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.1	$7.44
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$0.82
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.56
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$1.7
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.86	$2.36
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.59	$0.77
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.62	$0.54
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.4	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.13	$1.11
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.52	$5.1
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$0.84
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.03	$2.49
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.24	$4.21
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.87	$4.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$1.52
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$1.56
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$13.2	$34.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.03	$5.57
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.81	$16.1
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.82	$9.55
👖 Brand Jeans	$21.8	$73.6
👟 Brand Sneakers	$47.5	$95.6
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$48.6	$392
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1666	$7184

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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 Bialik	$1666
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Yam	$1657
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 Kyiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
78 km or 49 mi	Bila Tserkva	$454
129 km or 80 mi	Chernihiv	$433
134 km or 83 mi	Zhytomyr	$549
157 km or 97 mi	Cherkasy	$455
200 km or 124 mi	Vinnytsia	$562
224 km or 139 mi	Gomel	$440
250 km or 155 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$513
258 km or 160 mi	Kremenchuk	$444
277 km or 172 mi	Khmelnytskyi	$483
302 km or 188 mi	Soroca	$863
302 km or 188 mi	Rivne	$394
305 km or 189 mi	Poltava	$490
305 km or 190 mi	Sumy	$486
313 km or 195 mi	Babruysk	$438
349 km or 217 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$486
354 km or 220 mi	Balti	$876
360 km or 224 mi	Pinsk	$435
363 km or 226 mi	Orhei	$829
365 km or 227 mi	Ternopil	$462
366 km or 227 mi	Kamianske	$605
368 km or 228 mi	Dubasari	$780
368 km or 229 mi	Lutsk	$510
385 km or 239 mi	Mogilev	$474
392 km or 243 mi	Dnipro	$718
402 km or 250 mi	Chisinau	$892
402 km or 250 mi	Mykolaiv	$400
406 km or 252 mi	Tiraspol	$517
408 km or 254 mi	Bryansk	$513
409 km or 254 mi	Kharkiv	$506
409 km or 254 mi	Bender	$502
410 km or 255 mi	Chernivtsi	$533
411 km or 255 mi	Botosani	$727
412 km or 256 mi	Ungheni	$1062
420 km or 261 mi	Kursk	$490
424 km or 263 mi	Iasi	$840
430 km or 267 mi	Belgorod	$552
431 km or 268 mi	Baranavichy	$517
434 km or 269 mi	Minsk	$727
440 km or 273 mi	Suceava	$709
441 km or 274 mi	Barysaw	$570