Dresden vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 11, 2026

	Dresden	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1531	$499
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3749	$1275
🏠 One person rent	$706	$200
🏘️ Family rent	$1209	$342
🍽️ Food expenses	$528	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$159	$43
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3314	$459
😷 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 207% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 3968th and 8722nd ($1531 vs $499) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 536th and 24th 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 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Dresden ranked 19th best city to live in Germany vs Kharkiv ranked 4th in Ukraine, while ranked 117th and 5605th 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	$13.3	$5.46
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$75.9	$21
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.3	$4.39
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.29	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$4.08	$1.23
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$3.91	$0.72
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$716	$218
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$462	$122
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1275	$392
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$840	$222
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$154	$52.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$243	$80.7
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$38.8	$5.94
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.93%	17.61%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5211	$1150
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3268	$595
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$3.75	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$72.9	$8.47
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$24	$3.84
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$2.01	$1.25
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.25	$0.97
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.89	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.5	$0.97
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.74	$1.46
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.6	$7.2
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12	$3.72
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$23	$7.05
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.41	$0.87
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.01	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.21	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.31	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.69	$0.57
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.57	$0.5
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.78	$0.36
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.8	$0.74
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.68	$4.6
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.05	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$9.19	$2.2
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$10.4	$4.09
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.57	$1.33
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.47	$0.65
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.68	$1.27
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$36	$20.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$13.4	$4.06
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$55	$7.93
💇 Haircut, simple	$15.9	$2.88
👖 Brand Jeans	$90.6	$55.1
👟 Brand Sneakers	$111	$77.1
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$390	$299
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$16803	$2953

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Cities near Dresden

Distance	City	Cost of living
7.2 km or 4.5 mi	Freital	$1478
7.7 km or 4.8 mi	Radebeul	$1476
14 km or 8.9 mi	Coswig	$1473
17 km or 11 mi	Pirna	$1476
22 km or 14 mi	Meissen	$1460
32 km or 20 mi	Freiberg	$1305
42 km or 26 mi	Riesa	$1462
44 km or 28 mi	Decin	$1227
44 km or 28 mi	Dobeln	$1454
47 km or 29 mi	Teplice	$1006
48 km or 30 mi	Usti nad Labem	$1093
50 km or 31 mi	Bautzen	$1494
51 km or 31 mi	Litvinov	$1525
55 km or 34 mi	Senftenberg	$1502
56 km or 35 mi	Hoyerswerda	$1474
61 km or 38 mi	Most	$1103
62 km or 39 mi	Chemnitz	$1497
64 km or 40 mi	Litomerice	$1280
69 km or 43 mi	Ceska Lipa	$1273
69 km or 43 mi	Chomutov	$1200
72 km or 45 mi	Limbach-Oberfrohna	$1478
73 km or 45 mi	Spremberg	$1464
73 km or 46 mi	Annaberg-Buchholz	$1479
74 km or 46 mi	Grimma	$1510
76 km or 47 mi	Torgau	$1488
77 km or 48 mi	Zittau	$1472
87 km or 54 mi	Glauchau	$1334
88 km or 55 mi	Gorlitz	$1468
89 km or 55 mi	Cottbus	$1382
92 km or 57 mi	Altenburg	$1401
95 km or 59 mi	Zwickau	$1146
98 km or 61 mi	Liberec	$1188
98 km or 61 mi	Markkleeberg	$1576
100 km or 62 mi	Leipzig	$1652
101 km or 63 mi	Werdau	$1276
104 km or 65 mi	Kladno	$1375
107 km or 66 mi	Jablonec nad Nisou	$1188
108 km or 67 mi	Mlada Boleslav	$1244
110 km or 68 mi	Karlovy Vary	$1196
111 km or 69 mi	Delitzsch	$1553

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$757
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$490
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$516
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$630
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$505
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$567
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$682
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$748
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$644
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$637
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$465
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$639
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$528
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$549
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$485
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$761
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$724
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$476
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$492
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$696
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$599
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$529
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$557
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$705
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$597
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$686
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$500
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$697
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$893
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$759
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$882
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$487
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$545
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$534
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$414
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$680
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$905
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$637
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$759
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$562