Dushanbe vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Dushanbe	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$605	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1616	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$265	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$503	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$227	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$25.9	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$150	$388
😷 Air quality	Bad	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	5 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	35	60
😀 Quality of life	36	56
🏙️ Population	863K	1.42M

The cost of living in Dushanbe is 19% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 7600th and 8600th ($605 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 7th and 20th in Tajikistan and Ukraine, respectively. Check Tajikistan vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.2 months in Dushanbe compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Dushanbe ranked 1st best city to live in Tajikistan vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 7359th and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Dushanbe vs Kharkiv

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	Dushanbe	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.46	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$14.5	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$8.95	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.09	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$1.9	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$366	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$184	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$605	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$407	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$22.5	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$34.6	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$21.7	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	20.09%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$859	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$522	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.23	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$4.56	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.18	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.85	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.79	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.56	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.65	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.71	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.12	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.09	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.89	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.18	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.32	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.37	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.83	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.73	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.52	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.43	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.56	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.8	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.36	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.29	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$1.64	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.79	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.79	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.43	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$36	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.57	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$71.6	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.64	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$30.1	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$75.3	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$106	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$13506	$3129

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Cities near Dushanbe

Distance	City	Cost of living
49 km or 30 mi	Tursunzoda	$593
82 km or 51 mi	Qurghonteppa	$596
145 km or 90 mi	Panjakent	$602
150 km or 93 mi	Istaravshan	$613
190 km or 118 mi	Jizzakh	$507
198 km or 123 mi	Samarkand	$472
200 km or 124 mi	Ghafurov	$614
201 km or 125 mi	Buston	$615
203 km or 126 mi	Khujand	$623
205 km or 127 mi	Kunduz	$394
234 km or 145 mi	Istiklol	$613
236 km or 147 mi	Konibodom	$613
255 km or 158 mi	Mazar-i-Sharif	$408
261 km or 162 mi	Qarshi	$484
292 km or 181 mi	Puli Khumri	$381
306 km or 190 mi	Tashkent	$853
327 km or 203 mi	Fergana	$626
328 km or 204 mi	Margilan	$591
329 km or 204 mi	Chirchiq	$444
341 km or 212 mi	Sheberghan	$414
365 km or 227 mi	Namangan	$538
386 km or 240 mi	Andijan	$430
399 km or 248 mi	Bukhara	$431
406 km or 252 mi	Osh	$477
420 km or 261 mi	Shymkent	$569
445 km or 276 mi	Jalal-Abad	$538
451 km or 280 mi	Kabul	$474
456 km or 283 mi	Turkmenabat	$1523
484 km or 301 mi	Jalalabad	$303
511 km or 318 mi	Toktogul	$607
526 km or 327 mi	Taraz	$441
526 km or 327 mi	Talas	$623
528 km or 328 mi	Turkistan	$512
529 km or 329 mi	Mingora	$364
550 km or 342 mi	Kentau	$501
555 km or 345 mi	Gardez	$386
560 km or 348 mi	Ghazni	$389
564 km or 350 mi	Peshawar	$346
566 km or 352 mi	Mardan	$366
591 km or 367 mi	Khost	$366

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