Dresden vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Dresden	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1402	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3491	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$684	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1301	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$460	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$138	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$2953	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	10 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	65	46
😀 Quality of life	88	60
🏙️ Population	566K	1.47M

The cost of living in Dresden is 83% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 3862nd and 6596th ($1402 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 512th and 14th in Germany and Russia, respectively. Check Germany vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 2.1 months in Dresden compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Dresden ranked 33rd best city to live in Germany vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 217th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Dresden vs Yekaterinburg

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	Dresden	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$12.9	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$56.5	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$9.93	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.54	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.48	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$3.58	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$656	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$439	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1357	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$929	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$162	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$248	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$39	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.94%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4831	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3685	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$3.14	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$61.4	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$21.2	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.79	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.09	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.68	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.18	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.22	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.4	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$18.8	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.82	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.57	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.6	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.52	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.57	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.55	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.57	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.07	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.91	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$7.76	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.35	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.29	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.3	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.5	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$29.7	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$11.7	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$48.2	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$14.5	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$75.5	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$98.6	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$323	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$13167	$4946

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Cities near Dresden

Distance	City	Cost of living
7.2 km or 4.5 mi	Freital	$1347
7.7 km or 4.8 mi	Radebeul	$1351
14 km or 8.9 mi	Coswig	$1341
17 km or 11 mi	Pirna	$1352
22 km or 14 mi	Meissen	$1325
32 km or 20 mi	Freiberg	$1202
42 km or 26 mi	Riesa	$1309
44 km or 28 mi	Decin	$1048
44 km or 28 mi	Dobeln	$1278
47 km or 29 mi	Teplice	$880
48 km or 30 mi	Usti nad Labem	$971
50 km or 31 mi	Bautzen	$1420
51 km or 31 mi	Litvinov	$1314
55 km or 34 mi	Senftenberg	$1351
56 km or 35 mi	Hoyerswerda	$1373
61 km or 38 mi	Most	$942
62 km or 39 mi	Chemnitz	$1187
64 km or 40 mi	Litomerice	$1092
69 km or 43 mi	Ceska Lipa	$1081
69 km or 43 mi	Chomutov	$1033
72 km or 45 mi	Limbach-Oberfrohna	$1222
73 km or 45 mi	Spremberg	$1310
73 km or 46 mi	Annaberg-Buchholz	$1307
74 km or 46 mi	Grimma	$1353
76 km or 47 mi	Torgau	$1350
77 km or 48 mi	Zittau	$1352
87 km or 54 mi	Glauchau	$1147
88 km or 55 mi	Gorlitz	$1362
89 km or 55 mi	Cottbus	$1241
92 km or 57 mi	Altenburg	$1281
95 km or 59 mi	Zwickau	$1011
98 km or 61 mi	Liberec	$1030
98 km or 61 mi	Markkleeberg	$1452
100 km or 62 mi	Leipzig	$1516
101 km or 63 mi	Werdau	$1118
104 km or 65 mi	Kladno	$1216
107 km or 66 mi	Jablonec nad Nisou	$950
108 km or 67 mi	Mlada Boleslav	$1092
110 km or 68 mi	Karlovy Vary	$979
111 km or 69 mi	Delitzsch	$1419

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658