Damascus vs Moscow - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Damascus	Moscow
🚶 Cost of living one person	$671	$1438
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1492	$3409
🏠 One person rent	$315	$864
🏘️ Family rent	$505	$1523
🍽️ Food expenses	$250	$357
🚐 Transport expenses	$61.5	$109
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$47.6	$881
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	27 km
🎓 Higher education	28	96
😀 Quality of life	39	73
🏙️ Population	2.69M	13.3M

The cost of living in Damascus is 53% less expensive than in Moscow. Cities ranked 7287th and 4141st ($671 vs $1438) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 1st 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 0.6 months in Moscow. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Moscow ranked 1st in Russia, while ranked 7834th and 2664th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Moscow

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	Damascus	Moscow
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$7.99	$12.3
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$28.8	$55.4
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.96	$6.18
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.61	$4.27
☕ Cappuccino	$1.95	$3.35
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.38	$1.47
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$219	$1183
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$160	$660
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$398	$2170
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$295	$1176
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$88	$91.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$135	$140
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$54.5	$8.08
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.62%	24.47%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1865	$9466
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$645	$4008
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.1	$0.87
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$17	$37.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$6.96	$5.62
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.43	$0.78
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.98	$1.25
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.5	$0.87
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$1.55
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.83	$1.7
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.22	$12.8
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.18	$5.71
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.5	$11.8
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$1.8
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.53	$2
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.07	$2.02
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.76	$3.57
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.71	$0.99
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.65	$0.8
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.46	$0.53
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.1	$2.5
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.97	$9.17
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.01	$1.12
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.02	$3.09
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.03	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.86	$3.05
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$1.92
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$1.81
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$16.2	$43.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$2.98	$7.34
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.82	$34.3
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.78	$6.45
👖 Brand Jeans	$44.4	$78.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$58	$127
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$49.6	$688
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1711	$15272

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Cities near Damascus

Distance	City	Cost of living
51 km or 32 mi	Zahle	$930
75 km or 47 mi	Kiryat Shmona	$1808
81 km or 50 mi	Jounieh	$1028
83 km or 52 mi	Sidon	$822
83 km or 52 mi	Beirut	$1261
96 km or 59 mi	Safed	$1847
105 km or 65 mi	Tyre	$647
108 km or 67 mi	Tiberias	$1808
110 km or 68 mi	Ma'alot-Tarshiha	$1803
111 km or 69 mi	Tripoli	$787
114 km or 71 mi	Irbid	$753
115 km or 72 mi	Arraba	$1789
116 km or 72 mi	Karmiel	$1630
117 km or 73 mi	Sakhnin	$1745
125 km or 78 mi	Tamra	$1798
125 km or 78 mi	Nahariya	$1775
126 km or 78 mi	Nof HaGalil	$1862
129 km or 80 mi	Nazareth	$1850
130 km or 81 mi	Acre	$1633
131 km or 81 mi	Shefa-'Amr	$1828
135 km or 84 mi	Migdal HaEmek	$1917
136 km or 84 mi	Kiryat Motzkin	$1842
136 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Ata	$1769
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Yam	$1819
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Bialik	$1804
137 km or 85 mi	Afula	$1817
141 km or 88 mi	Homs	$402
142 km or 88 mi	Nesher	$1757
143 km or 89 mi	Jerash	$748
145 km or 90 mi	Haifa	$1840
145 km or 90 mi	Yokneam Illit	$1932
154 km or 95 mi	Umm al-Fahm	$1954
163 km or 101 mi	Zikhron Ya'akov	$1978
168 km or 105 mi	Baqa-Jatt	$2001
169 km or 105 mi	Pardes Hanna-Karkur	$1991
173 km or 107 mi	Al-Salt	$548
173 km or 108 mi	Nablus	$915
174 km or 108 mi	Hadera	$1786
177 km or 110 mi	Amman	$1009
184 km or 114 mi	Tayibe	$2108

Cities near Moscow

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Khimki	$914
19 km or 12 mi	Krasnogorsk	$915
19 km or 12 mi	Lyubertsy	$917
19 km or 12 mi	Mytishchi	$800
21 km or 13 mi	Balashikha	$898
22 km or 14 mi	Korolyov	$831
37 km or 23 mi	Podolsk	$876
52 km or 32 mi	Elektrostal	$863
96 km or 60 mi	Obninsk	$671
161 km or 100 mi	Kaluga	$582
161 km or 100 mi	Tver	$727
173 km or 107 mi	Tula	$837
179 km or 111 mi	Vladimir	$650
184 km or 114 mi	Ryazan	$692
248 km or 154 mi	Yaroslavl	$672
250 km or 155 mi	Ivanovo	$615
266 km or 165 mi	Rybinsk	$678
301 km or 187 mi	Kostroma	$765
326 km or 202 mi	Oryol	$660
349 km or 217 mi	Bryansk	$629
366 km or 228 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$697
369 km or 229 mi	Smolensk	$547
372 km or 231 mi	Lipetsk	$570
376 km or 234 mi	Cherepovets	$543
402 km or 250 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$882
408 km or 254 mi	Vologda	$544
419 km or 260 mi	Tambov	$672
457 km or 284 mi	Kursk	$649
466 km or 290 mi	Voronezh	$707
474 km or 294 mi	Vitebsk	$293
491 km or 305 mi	Veliky Novgorod	$734
495 km or 308 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
496 km or 308 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
509 km or 316 mi	Mogilev	$545
513 km or 319 mi	Saransk	$719
555 km or 345 mi	Penza	$537
568 km or 353 mi	Gomel	$475
571 km or 355 mi	Sumy	$496
577 km or 359 mi	Belgorod	$718
601 km or 373 mi	Cheboksary	$772