Foshan vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 10, 2024

	Foshan	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$602	$701
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1932	$1767
🏠 One person rent	$185	$347
🏘️ Family rent	$415	$703
🍽️ Food expenses	$273	$227
🚐 Transport expenses	$70.5	$54.4
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$864	$601
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	7 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	95	46
😀 Quality of life	70	60
🏙️ Population	9.5M	1.47M

The cost of living in Foshan is 14% less expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 7753rd and 6924th ($602 vs $701) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 301st and 16th in China and Russia, respectively. Check China vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.4 months in Foshan compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Foshan ranked 11th best city to live in China vs Yekaterinburg ranked 7th in Russia, while ranked 2359th and 5229th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Foshan vs Yekaterinburg

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	Foshan	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$3.6	$7.57
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$25.8	$32
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.98	$4.28
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.14	$1.62
☕ Cappuccino	$3.26	$1.93
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.49	$0.75
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$200	$377
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$111	$252
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$569	$836
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$277	$538
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$41.5	$62.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$64.1	$97.8
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$14.9	$7.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.45%	12.81%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4523	$1941
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2043	$1299
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.29	$0.35
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$11.4	$26.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$4.69	$4.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.2	$0.57
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.99	$0.77
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.93	$0.44
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.16	$1.1
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.93	$1.3
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.3	$8.74
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.1	$3.76
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14	$6.95
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.07	$1.39
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.41	$1.36
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.89	$1.46
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.47	$2.14
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.01	$0.48
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.18	$0.53
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.41	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.95	$1.69
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$17.8	$5.42
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.93	$0.73
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.94	$2.38
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.61	$3.48
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$5.69	$3.18
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.44	$0.69
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.14	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$69.2	$27.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$7.08	$4.31
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$17	$17
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.45	$7.16
👖 Brand Jeans	$44.4	$61.6
👟 Brand Sneakers	$69.6	$83.6
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$549	$180
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$24357	$4718

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Cities near Foshan

Distance	City	Cost of living
19 km or 12 mi	Guangzhou	$763
50 km or 31 mi	Jiangmen	$830
61 km or 38 mi	Zhongshan	$491
66 km or 41 mi	Dongguan	$678
67 km or 42 mi	Zhaoqing	$806
73 km or 45 mi	Qingyuan	$808
84 km or 52 mi	Kaiping	$824
96 km or 60 mi	Zhuhai	$641
106 km or 66 mi	Macau	$1590
110 km or 68 mi	Yunfu	$839
112 km or 69 mi	Shenzhen	$958
134 km or 83 mi	Huizhou	$629
136 km or 85 mi	Kowloon	$2427
137 km or 85 mi	Hong Kong	$2753
176 km or 109 mi	Yangjiang	$895
181 km or 112 mi	Heyuan	$801
190 km or 118 mi	Wuzhou	$819
203 km or 126 mi	Shaoguan	$852
209 km or 130 mi	Lianzhou	$783
221 km or 137 mi	Hezhou	$780
230 km or 143 mi	Shanwei	$1014
262 km or 163 mi	Gaozhou	$774
272 km or 169 mi	Maoming	$774
306 km or 190 mi	Yulin	$794
308 km or 191 mi	Chenzhou	$746
315 km or 196 mi	Puning	$726
338 km or 210 mi	Meizhou	$795
338 km or 210 mi	Jieyang	$691
345 km or 214 mi	Zhanjiang	$781
358 km or 222 mi	Guigang	$725
362 km or 225 mi	Ganzhou	$813
367 km or 228 mi	Chaozhou	$592
369 km or 229 mi	Shantou	$605
379 km or 236 mi	Guilin	$538
403 km or 250 mi	Laibin	$623
403 km or 250 mi	Liuzhou	$607
410 km or 255 mi	Yongzhou	$618
433 km or 269 mi	Hengyang	$611
442 km or 274 mi	Haikou	$671
447 km or 278 mi	Beihai	$660

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$586
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$585
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$537
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$539
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$523
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$531
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$559
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$698
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$490
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$567
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$473
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$782
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$620
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$422
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$484
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$556
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$536
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$540
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$575
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$451
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$503
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$463
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$630
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$654
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$533
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$480
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$509
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$589
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$513
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$484
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$541
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$406
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$530
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$522
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$612
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$780
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$562
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$376
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$639
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$628