Dusseldorf vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Dusseldorf	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1772	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$4419	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$985	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1862	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$495	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$158	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3209	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	7 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	92	46
😀 Quality of life	95	60
🏙️ Population	631K	1.47M

The cost of living in Dusseldorf is 132% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 2469th and 6596th ($1772 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 16th and 14th in Germany and Russia, respectively. Check Germany vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.8 months in Dusseldorf compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Dusseldorf ranked 4th best city to live in Germany vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 27th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Dusseldorf vs Yekaterinburg

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	Dusseldorf	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$14.4	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$65	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$11.1	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.58	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.95	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$3.2	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$930	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$738	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1883	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1479	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$170	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$263	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$39.6	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.99%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6638	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5584	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$3.47	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$52	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$27.4	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.85	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.2	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.95	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.74	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.89	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.7	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12.9	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$18.6	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.91	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.6	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.05	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.75	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.68	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.46	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.64	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.62	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.87	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.06	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$8.02	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.87	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.91	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.43	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.5	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$41.3	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$13.2	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$55.5	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$15.2	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$92.1	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$95.4	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$721	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$21276	$4946

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Cities near Dusseldorf

Distance	City	Cost of living
6.5 km or 4 mi	Neuss	$1495
9.4 km or 5.8 mi	Ratingen	$1497
9.9 km or 6.2 mi	Erkrath	$1516
10 km or 6.3 mi	Kaarst	$1500
13 km or 8.3 mi	Hilden	$1522
14 km or 8.5 mi	Mettmann	$1479
16 km or 9.8 mi	Dormagen	$1561
16 km or 9.9 mi	Willich	$1476
17 km or 11 mi	Monheim am Rhein	$1576
17 km or 11 mi	Haan	$1517
17 km or 11 mi	Heiligenhaus	$1444
18 km or 11 mi	Langenfeld	$1577
18 km or 11 mi	Krefeld	$1494
19 km or 12 mi	Korschenbroich	$1490
19 km or 12 mi	Wulfrath	$1433
20 km or 13 mi	Grevenbroich	$1499
21 km or 13 mi	Leichlingen	$1559
22 km or 14 mi	Tonisvorst	$1471
22 km or 14 mi	Velbert	$1428
22 km or 14 mi	Duisburg	$1314
23 km or 14 mi	Solingen	$1580
23 km or 14 mi	Mulheim	$1434
24 km or 15 mi	Monchengladbach	$1511
26 km or 16 mi	Pulheim	$1572
26 km or 16 mi	Leverkusen	$1822
27 km or 17 mi	Viersen	$1469
27 km or 17 mi	Oberhausen	$1485
27 km or 17 mi	Moers	$1439
28 km or 17 mi	Neukirchen-Vluyn	$1445
28 km or 17 mi	Wuppertal	$1233
29 km or 18 mi	Kempen	$1460
29 km or 18 mi	Remscheid	$1494
30 km or 18 mi	Bedburg	$1504
30 km or 18 mi	Essen	$1443
31 km or 19 mi	Bergheim	$1518
32 km or 20 mi	Wermelskirchen	$1497
34 km or 21 mi	Bottrop	$1367
34 km or 21 mi	Kamp-Lintfort	$1435
34 km or 21 mi	Hattingen	$1444
35 km or 22 mi	Cologne	$1744

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