Edinburgh vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Edinburgh	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2140	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5387	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$1269	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$2336	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$530	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$161	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3522	$388
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	11 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	88	60
😀 Quality of life	94	56
🏙️ Population	488K	1.42M

The cost of living in Edinburgh is 323% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 1491st and 8600th ($2140 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 36th and 20th in the United Kingdom and Ukraine, respectively. Check the United Kingdom vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.6 months in Edinburgh compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Edinburgh ranked 3rd best city to live in the United Kingdom vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 34th and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Edinburgh vs Kharkiv

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	Edinburgh	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$17.4	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$75.9	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$9.21	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$7.09	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$4.64	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.55	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1331	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$970	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2573	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1865	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$188	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$291	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$38.4	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.75%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6219	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4199	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.54	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$83	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$27.8	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.82	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.6	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.69	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.87	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.14	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.1	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.87	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.2	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.87	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.41	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.62	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.38	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.56	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.37	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.87	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$3.07	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$10.5	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.31	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$18.9	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.9	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.45	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.07	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.53	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$50.2	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$15.1	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$106	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$21.5	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$111	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$106	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1772	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$21911	$3129

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Edinburgh

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Kirkcaldy	$1610
21 km or 13 mi	Livingston	$1608
21 km or 13 mi	Dunfermline	$1692
42 km or 26 mi	Alloa	$1649
49 km or 30 mi	Cumbernauld	$1475
49 km or 31 mi	Stirling	$1604
52 km or 32 mi	Perth	$1500
56 km or 35 mi	Hamilton	$1699
59 km or 37 mi	Dundee	$1482
65 km or 40 mi	East Kilbride	$1763
66 km or 41 mi	Glasgow	$2011
78 km or 48 mi	Paisley	$1765
89 km or 56 mi	Kilmarnock	$1480
98 km or 61 mi	Greenock	$1601
99 km or 61 mi	Irvine	$1551
102 km or 63 mi	Dumfries	$1246
105 km or 65 mi	Ayr	$1404
120 km or 74 mi	Carlisle	$1567
147 km or 91 mi	Newcastle upon Tyne	$1726
149 km or 93 mi	Aberdeen	$1614
150 km or 93 mi	Gateshead	$1705
153 km or 95 mi	Tynemouth	$1638
153 km or 95 mi	Jarrow	$1651
154 km or 96 mi	South Shields	$1628
158 km or 98 mi	Washington	$1637
158 km or 98 mi	Whitehaven	$1732
164 km or 102 mi	Sunderland	$1510
166 km or 103 mi	Durham	$1707
173 km or 107 mi	Bishop Auckland	$1592
182 km or 113 mi	Inverness	$1722
189 km or 117 mi	Hartlepool	$1328
189 km or 117 mi	Elgin	$1393
190 km or 118 mi	Darlington	$1288
194 km or 121 mi	Stockton-on-Tees	$1377
197 km or 123 mi	Middlesbrough	$1500
211 km or 131 mi	Morecambe	$1714
212 km or 132 mi	Bangor	$1382
213 km or 132 mi	Lancaster	$1629
216 km or 134 mi	Douglas	$1968
224 km or 139 mi	Newtownabbey	$1692

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