Dresden vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: June 21, 2026

	Dresden	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1448	$501
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3599	$1256
🏠 One person rent	$637	$204
🏘️ Family rent	$1099	$336
🍽️ Food expenses	$517	$194
🚐 Transport expenses	$159	$45.4
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3219	$493
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	10 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	65	61
😀 Quality of life	92	63
🏙️ Population	566K	1.42M

The cost of living in Dresden is 189% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 4158th and 8662nd ($1448 vs $501) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 592nd and 23rd in Germany and Ukraine, respectively. Check Germany vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 2.2 months in Dresden compared to 1 months in Kharkiv. Dresden ranked 17th best city to live in Germany vs Kharkiv ranked 4th in Ukraine, while ranked 96th and 5430th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Dresden vs Kharkiv

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	Dresden	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$14.5	$5.32
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$75.7	$19.8
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.1	$4.26
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.44	$0.99
☕ Cappuccino	$4.13	$1.23
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$3.84	$0.83
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$652	$218
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$423	$127
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1203	$392
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$764	$213
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$131	$52.8
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$210	$81.1
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$37.8	$6.26
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.99%	17.68%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5147	$1073
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2772	$594
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$3.96	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$73.2	$9.81
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$23.7	$3.9
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$2.06	$1.31
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.33	$0.95
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.77	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.42	$0.95
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.69	$1.56
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.2	$7.23
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.8	$3.74
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$23.9	$7.17
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.27	$0.97
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.2	$1.59
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.07	$1.69
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.69	$1.77
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.7	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.59	$0.48
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.73	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.74	$0.73
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.91	$4.45
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.07	$0.71
🚬 Cigarette pack	$8.96	$2.17
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.37	$3.95
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.47	$1.3
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.43	$0.62
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.66	$1.22
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$34.2	$18.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$13	$4.02
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$52.6	$7.98
💇 Haircut, simple	$16	$2.77
👖 Brand Jeans	$87.6	$52.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$107	$76
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$446	$285
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$15933	$2841

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Cities near Dresden

Distance	City	Cost of living
7.2 km or 4.5 mi	Freital	$1412
7.7 km or 4.8 mi	Radebeul	$1410
14 km or 8.9 mi	Coswig	$1417
17 km or 11 mi	Pirna	$1424
22 km or 14 mi	Meissen	$1430
32 km or 20 mi	Freiberg	$1316
42 km or 26 mi	Riesa	$1445
44 km or 28 mi	Decin	$1216
44 km or 28 mi	Dobeln	$1440
47 km or 29 mi	Teplice	$1006
48 km or 30 mi	Usti nad Labem	$1141
50 km or 31 mi	Bautzen	$1503
51 km or 31 mi	Litvinov	$1517
55 km or 34 mi	Senftenberg	$1461
56 km or 35 mi	Hoyerswerda	$1470
61 km or 38 mi	Most	$1094
62 km or 39 mi	Chemnitz	$1530
64 km or 40 mi	Litomerice	$1276
69 km or 43 mi	Ceska Lipa	$1332
69 km or 43 mi	Chomutov	$1174
72 km or 45 mi	Limbach-Oberfrohna	$1464
73 km or 45 mi	Spremberg	$1419
73 km or 46 mi	Annaberg-Buchholz	$1438
74 km or 46 mi	Grimma	$1505
76 km or 47 mi	Torgau	$1482
77 km or 48 mi	Zittau	$1460
87 km or 54 mi	Glauchau	$1299
88 km or 55 mi	Gorlitz	$1467
89 km or 55 mi	Cottbus	$1332
92 km or 57 mi	Altenburg	$1363
95 km or 59 mi	Zwickau	$1131
98 km or 61 mi	Liberec	$1174
98 km or 61 mi	Markkleeberg	$1579
100 km or 62 mi	Leipzig	$1659
101 km or 63 mi	Werdau	$1244
104 km or 65 mi	Kladno	$1402
107 km or 66 mi	Jablonec nad Nisou	$1112
108 km or 67 mi	Mlada Boleslav	$1195
110 km or 68 mi	Karlovy Vary	$1218
111 km or 69 mi	Delitzsch	$1551

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$746
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$475
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$518
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$618
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$539
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$611
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$685
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$749
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$642
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$628
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$490
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$621
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$525
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$471
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$790
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$766
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$448
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$454
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$730
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$577
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$518
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$554
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$757
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$635
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$732
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$479
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$779
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$891
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$855
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$853
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$464
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$589
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$529
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$409
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$694
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$974
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$691
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$798
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$591