Doha vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Doha	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1779	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$4033	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$1140	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$2017	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$408	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$104	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3416	$388
😷 Air quality	Bad	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	5 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	45	60
😀 Quality of life	80	56
🏙️ Population	1.19M	1.42M

The cost of living in Doha is 252% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 2449th and 8600th ($1779 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 20th in Qatar and Ukraine, respectively. Check Qatar vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.9 months in Doha compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Doha ranked 1st best city to live in Qatar vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 562nd and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Doha vs Kharkiv

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	Doha	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$9.28	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$52.4	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$7.25	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$12	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$5.25	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.86	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1393	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$888	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2490	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1664	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$65.8	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$103	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$85.3	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.84%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4779	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3550	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.55	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$34.3	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$16.1	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.57	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$2.09	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.52	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$2.87	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.9	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.69	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.93	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.58	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.51	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.54	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.1	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.27	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.31	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.98	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$17	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.28	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$6.25	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.11	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.92	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.85	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.07	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$108	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$11.8	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$48.7	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$9.65	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$63	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$97.1	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$770	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$11200	$3129

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Doha

Distance	City	Cost of living
43 km or 27 mi	Al Khor	$1709
135 km or 84 mi	Riffa	$1223
138 km or 86 mi	Isa Town	$1243
139 km or 87 mi	Manama	$1280
175 km or 109 mi	Dhahran	$1068
188 km or 117 mi	Al-Mubarraz	$804
191 km or 119 mi	Dammam	$1056
236 km or 147 mi	Qatif	$897
265 km or 165 mi	Jubail	$901
282 km or 175 mi	Madinat Zayed	$1721
300 km or 187 mi	Abu Dhabi	$1828
380 km or 236 mi	Dubai	$2379
388 km or 241 mi	Sharjah	$1494
397 km or 247 mi	Ajman	$2240
405 km or 252 mi	Umm al-Quwain	$1196
409 km or 254 mi	Jahrom	$547
414 km or 257 mi	Bushehr	$551
442 km or 275 mi	Borazjan	$546
442 km or 275 mi	Al Ain	$1844
455 km or 283 mi	Fasa	$548
466 km or 289 mi	Ras al-Khaimah	$1540
480 km or 298 mi	Kazerun	$557
483 km or 300 mi	Fujairah	$1239
489 km or 304 mi	Shiraz	$589
491 km or 305 mi	Riyadh	$1637
515 km or 320 mi	Al Wafrah	$1210
516 km or 320 mi	Bandar Abbas	$634
524 km or 325 mi	Marvdasht	$563
573 km or 356 mi	Kuwait City	$1393
597 km or 371 mi	Yasuj	$529
601 km or 374 mi	Al-Faw	$736
602 km or 374 mi	Behbahan	$536
617 km or 383 mi	Sirjan	$514
628 km or 390 mi	Bandar-e Mahshahr	$548
635 km or 394 mi	Umm Qasr	$740
644 km or 400 mi	Abadan	$547
659 km or 409 mi	Khorramshahr	$544
663 km or 412 mi	Nizwa	$780
679 km or 422 mi	Az Zubayr	$723
683 km or 424 mi	Basra	$904

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