Damascus vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Damascus	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$638	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1494	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$291	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$523	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$232	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$80.7	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$55.7	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	25	46
😀 Quality of life	34	60
🏙️ Population	2.69M	1.47M

The cost of living in Damascus is 17% less expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 7300th and 6596th ($638 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 14th 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 Yekaterinburg. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 7688th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Yekaterinburg

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	Damascus	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.01	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$34.8	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.96	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.5	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$1.26	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.25	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$262	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$154	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$590	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$330	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$48.5	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$74.5	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$67.2	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.68%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1862	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$879	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.1	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$16.9	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.9	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.43	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.63	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.76	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.76	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.37	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.69	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.1	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.86	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.59	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.62	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.4	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.13	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.52	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.03	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.24	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.87	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$13.2	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.03	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.81	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.82	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$21.8	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$47.5	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$48.6	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1666	$4946

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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 Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658