Dodoma vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Dodoma	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$502	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1420	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$169	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$368	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$247	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$35.6	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$241	$388
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	19	60
😀 Quality of life	24	56
🏙️ Population	214K	1.42M

The cost of living in Dodoma is 0.8% less expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 8632nd and 8600th ($502 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 8th and 20th in Tanzania and Ukraine, respectively. Check Tanzania vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.5 months in Dodoma compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Dodoma ranked 7th best city to live in Tanzania vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 8698th and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Dodoma vs Kharkiv

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	Dodoma	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.79	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$15.3	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$7.79	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.92	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$1.56	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.78	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$185	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$86.8	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$378	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$258	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$43.1	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$66.4	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$19.4	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	15.88%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3085	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$8420	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.36	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$12.9	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.6	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.23	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.86	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.77	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.03	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.99	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.8	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.96	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.83	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.54	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.93	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.78	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.55	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.05	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.73	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.26	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.01	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.47	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.87	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.55	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.3	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.58	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.53	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.44	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$58.4	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.89	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$18.3	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.18	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$16.2	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$45.6	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$273	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$8092	$3129

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Cities near Dodoma

Distance	City	Cost of living
221 km or 137 mi	Morogoro	$486
337 km or 209 mi	Arusha	$638
369 km or 229 mi	Moshi	$561
381 km or 237 mi	Stone Town	$523
381 km or 237 mi	Zanzibar	$552
389 km or 242 mi	Mbeya	$461
393 km or 244 mi	Tanga	$545
395 km or 246 mi	Dar es Salaam	$811
498 km or 309 mi	Mombasa	$580
522 km or 324 mi	Mwanza	$625
553 km or 343 mi	Machakos	$408
564 km or 351 mi	Nairobi	$760
590 km or 366 mi	Malindi	$498
597 km or 371 mi	Thika	$589
608 km or 378 mi	Mzuzu	$525
664 km or 413 mi	Nakuru	$500
669 km or 415 mi	Kasama	$748
671 km or 417 mi	Mzimba	$566
683 km or 425 mi	Ruyigi	$648
687 km or 427 mi	Rutana	$648
693 km or 430 mi	Kisumu	$522
700 km or 435 mi	Makamba	$647
709 km or 441 mi	Muyinga	$650
717 km or 446 mi	Gitega	$651
726 km or 451 mi	Kalemie	$747
732 km or 455 mi	Meru	$541
745 km or 463 mi	Mumias	$490
754 km or 469 mi	Eldoret	$483
756 km or 470 mi	Ngozi	$648
776 km or 482 mi	Bujumbura	$719
779 km or 484 mi	Butare	$413
787 km or 489 mi	Bubanza	$648
790 km or 491 mi	Entebbe	$558
791 km or 492 mi	Kigali	$771
791 km or 492 mi	Tororo	$602
794 km or 493 mi	Nyanza	$518
794 km or 493 mi	Jinja	$562
798 km or 496 mi	Uvira	$803
810 km or 503 mi	Kampala	$698
816 km or 507 mi	Kira Town	$646

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