Djibouti City vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Djibouti City	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$586	$510
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1414	$1309
🏠 One person rent	$249	$203
🏘️ Family rent	$413	$340
🍽️ Food expenses	$227	$202
🚐 Transport expenses	$49.7	$43.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$233	$434
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	5 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	8	61
😀 Quality of life	41	63
🏙️ Population	604K	1.42M

The cost of living in Djibouti City is 15% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 7941st and 8604th ($586 vs $510) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 22nd in Djibouti and Ukraine, respectively. Check Djibouti vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.4 months in Djibouti City compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Djibouti City ranked 1st best city to live in Djibouti vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 7664th and 5547th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Djibouti City vs Kharkiv

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	Djibouti City	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$4.12	$5.68
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$23.1	$19.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.23	$4.93
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.88	$1.03
☕ Cappuccino	$1.92	$1.24
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.68	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$245	$206
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$167	$125
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$447	$358
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$294	$223
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$41	$55.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$63.2	$85.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$25.1	$5.43
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	11.94%	18.62%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1488	$1364
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$959	$698
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.48	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$19.1	$10.1
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$7.46	$3.56
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.06	$1.27
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.19	$1
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.83	$0.54
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.21	$0.96
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.75	$1.5
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.5	$7.62
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.46	$3.82
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.42	$6.98
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.21	$0.84
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.26	$1.66
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.62	$1.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.17	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.05	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.05	$0.51
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.38	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.32	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.9	$4.76
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.44	$0.78
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.94	$2.05
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.05	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.1	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.54	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.28	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$24.9	$21.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.75	$4.2
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$21.5	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$4.29	$3.01
👖 Brand Jeans	$34.5	$54.4
👟 Brand Sneakers	$68.4	$83.2
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$136	$351
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$4170	$3156

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Cities near Djibouti City

Distance	City	Cost of living
44 km or 27 mi	Obock	$560
68 km or 42 mi	Ali Sabieh	$557
101 km or 63 mi	Dikhil	$559
185 km or 115 mi	Borama	$502
240 km or 149 mi	Taiz	$522
245 km or 152 mi	Aden	$517
247 km or 153 mi	Hargeisa	$694
253 km or 157 mi	Jijiga	$1169
264 km or 164 mi	Dire Dawa	$1175
277 km or 172 mi	Harar	$1175
286 km or 178 mi	Ibb	$512
290 km or 180 mi	Zabid	$499
356 km or 221 mi	Dhamar	$500
357 km or 222 mi	Al Hudaydah	$522
387 km or 240 mi	Dessie	$1039
418 km or 259 mi	Sayyan	$498
433 km or 269 mi	Sanaa	$560
451 km or 280 mi	Mekelle	$826
561 km or 348 mi	Addis Ababa	$1289
594 km or 369 mi	Mendefera	$498
598 km or 371 mi	Sa'dah	$498
600 km or 373 mi	Massawa	$499
618 km or 384 mi	Asmara	$533
627 km or 390 mi	Bahir Dar	$864
628 km or 390 mi	Gondar	$1016
664 km or 413 mi	Najran	$860
689 km or 428 mi	Keren	$500
720 km or 448 mi	Awasa	$1031
726 km or 451 mi	Mukalla	$500
740 km or 460 mi	Abha	$911
818 km or 509 mi	Jimma	$802
826 km or 513 mi	Bareq	$903
846 km or 526 mi	Kassala	$971
884 km or 550 mi	El-Gadarif	$925
936 km or 582 mi	Bisha	$918
944 km or 587 mi	Baidoa	$724
958 km or 595 mi	Ad-Damazin	$829
1019 km or 633 mi	As Sulayyil	$1008
1090 km or 677 mi	Mogadishu	$715
1095 km or 680 mi	Port Sudan	$964

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$718
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$479
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$496
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$639
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$649
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$790
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$633
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$656
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$440
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$650
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$516
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$501
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$732
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$707
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$498
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$503
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$660
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$616
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$539
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$545
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$665
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$570
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$629
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$516
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$652
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$851
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$718
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$879
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$497
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$475
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$516
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$420
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$672
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$837
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$582
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$709
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$586