Damascus vs Xuzhou - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Damascus	Xuzhou
🚶 Cost of living one person	$638	$484
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1494	$1445
🏠 One person rent	$291	$191
🏘️ Family rent	$523	$337
🍽️ Food expenses	$232	$167
🚐 Transport expenses	$80.7	$63.1
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$55.7	$1106
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Bad
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	7 km
🎓 Higher education	25	62
😀 Quality of life	34	49
🏙️ Population	2.69M	9.08M

The cost of living in Damascus is 32% more expensive than in Xuzhou. Cities ranked 7300th and 8735th ($638 vs $484) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 524th in Syria and China, respectively. Check Syria vs China comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.1 months in Damascus compared to 2.3 months in Xuzhou. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Xuzhou ranked 66th in China, while ranked 7688th and 6314th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Xuzhou

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	Damascus	Xuzhou
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.01	$2.13
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$34.8	$13.8
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.96	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.5	$1.62
☕ Cappuccino	$1.26	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.25	$0.43
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$262	$180
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$154	$153
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$590	$391
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$330	$266
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$48.5	$24.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$74.5	$38.1
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$67.2	$7.8
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.68%	3.93%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1862	$1988
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$879	$1555
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.1	$0.28
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$16.9	$10.9
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.9	$4.06
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.43	$1.06
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$1.75
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.63	$0.94
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.76	$0.79
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.76	$1.14
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.37	$11.7
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.69	$1.75
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.1	$7.55
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$1.51
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$0.96
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$0.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.86	$0.9
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.59	$0.57
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.62	$0.62
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.4	$0.27
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.13	$1.23
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.52	$5.61
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$0.46
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.03	$2.76
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.24	$2.87
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.87	$4.19
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$1.02
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$0.83
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$13.2	$30.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.03	$6.77
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.81	$35
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.82	$3.34
👖 Brand Jeans	$21.8	$28.6
👟 Brand Sneakers	$47.5	$48.1
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$48.6	$273
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1666	$22170

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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 Xuzhou

Distance	City	Cost of living
50 km or 31 mi	Huaibei	$584
73 km or 45 mi	Suzhou	$602
75 km or 47 mi	Zaozhuang	$548
76 km or 47 mi	Pizhou	$575
77 km or 48 mi	Yongcheng	$600
91 km or 57 mi	Tengzhou	$591
106 km or 66 mi	Xinyi	$572
107 km or 67 mi	Suqian	$620
138 km or 86 mi	Linyi	$541
139 km or 86 mi	Jining	$643
140 km or 87 mi	Zoucheng	$660
142 km or 89 mi	Shangqiu	$736
148 km or 92 mi	Bengbu	$505
150 km or 93 mi	Qufu	$593
181 km or 112 mi	Mingguang	$587
187 km or 116 mi	Lianyungang	$536
191 km or 119 mi	Xintai	$578
193 km or 120 mi	Heze	$1385
198 km or 123 mi	Fuyang	$633
198 km or 123 mi	Huainan	$608
199 km or 123 mi	Huai'an	$668
202 km or 126 mi	Jieshou	$591
216 km or 134 mi	Tai'an	$561
217 km or 135 mi	Feicheng	$571
218 km or 136 mi	Laiwu	$575
230 km or 143 mi	Xiangcheng	$577
242 km or 150 mi	Rizhao	$566
243 km or 151 mi	Tianchang	$613
245 km or 152 mi	Zhoukou	$580
248 km or 154 mi	Changyuan	$787
258 km or 160 mi	Puyang	$800
266 km or 165 mi	Gaoyou	$621
267 km or 166 mi	Hefei	$625
267 km or 166 mi	Liaocheng	$522
267 km or 166 mi	Kaifeng	$545
268 km or 167 mi	Jinan	$616
280 km or 174 mi	Zhucheng	$561
286 km or 178 mi	Lu'an	$664
286 km or 178 mi	Xinghua	$665
287 km or 178 mi	Nanjing	$746