Dar es Salaam vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Dar es Salaam	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$811	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2062	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$423	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$748	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$225	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$106	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$323	$388
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	12 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	44	60
😀 Quality of life	41	56
🏙️ Population	4.72M	1.42M

The cost of living in Dar es Salaam is 60% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 6399th and 8600th ($811 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 20th in Tanzania and Ukraine, respectively. Check Tanzania vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.4 months in Dar es Salaam compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Dar es Salaam ranked 1st best city to live in Tanzania vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 6871st and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Dar es Salaam vs Kharkiv

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	Dar es Salaam	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$2.93	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$20.1	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$7.15	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.13	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$2.04	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.4	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$427	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$325	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1029	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$551	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$44.9	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$68.6	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$33	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	19.47%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3163	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5427	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.29	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$18.1	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.2	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.18	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.1	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.71	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.76	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.55	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.06	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.28	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.67	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.05	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.04	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.04	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.87	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.42	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.28	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.26	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.83	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.46	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.88	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.14	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.76	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.24	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.96	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$77.9	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.94	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$17.2	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$4.84	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$21.5	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$39.3	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$312	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$19371	$3129

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Dar es Salaam

Distance	City	Cost of living
71 km or 44 mi	Zanzibar	$552
71 km or 44 mi	Stone Town	$523
179 km or 111 mi	Morogoro	$486
194 km or 120 mi	Tanga	$545
309 km or 192 mi	Mombasa	$580
395 km or 246 mi	Dodoma	$502
409 km or 254 mi	Malindi	$498
441 km or 274 mi	Moshi	$561
478 km or 297 mi	Arusha	$638
629 km or 391 mi	Machakos	$408
671 km or 417 mi	Nairobi	$760
684 km or 425 mi	Mbeya	$461
684 km or 425 mi	Thika	$589
698 km or 434 mi	Moroni	$1105
700 km or 435 mi	Pemba	$1506
774 km or 481 mi	Mzuzu	$525
783 km or 486 mi	Meru	$541
808 km or 502 mi	Nakuru	$500
836 km or 520 mi	Domoni	$1100
843 km or 524 mi	Mzimba	$566
853 km or 530 mi	Mwanza	$625
864 km or 537 mi	Nacala	$1150
899 km or 559 mi	Kisumu	$522
925 km or 575 mi	Nampula	$872
927 km or 576 mi	Eldoret	$483
931 km or 578 mi	Mamoudzou	$1465
938 km or 583 mi	Monkey Bay	$518
955 km or 594 mi	Mumias	$490
959 km or 596 mi	Mangochi	$493
969 km or 602 mi	Kasama	$748
1000 km or 621 mi	Lilongwe	$587
1007 km or 626 mi	Tororo	$602
1026 km or 637 mi	Ntcheu	$492
1044 km or 648 mi	Mbale	$605
1047 km or 651 mi	Zomba	$457
1049 km or 652 mi	Jinja	$562
1067 km or 663 mi	Ruyigi	$648
1074 km or 667 mi	Entebbe	$558
1076 km or 668 mi	Rutana	$648
1084 km or 674 mi	Muyinga	$650

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$552
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$490
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$486
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$586
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$434
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$473
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$490
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$718
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$550
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$605
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$444
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$611
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$536
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$459
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$574
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$448
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$455
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$486
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$505
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$513
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$507
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$550
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$494
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$430
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$513
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$433
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$571
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$683
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$617
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$850
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$454
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$440
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$400
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$433
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$561
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$552
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$538
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$595
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$549