Glasgow vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Glasgow	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2058	$510
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$4930	$1309
🏠 One person rent	$1155	$203
🏘️ Family rent	$2017	$340
🍽️ Food expenses	$551	$202
🚐 Transport expenses	$183	$43.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$3074	$434
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	11 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	94	61
😀 Quality of life	95	63
🏙️ Population	626K	1.42M

The cost of living in Glasgow is 303% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 1833rd and 8604th ($2058 vs $510) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 94th and 22nd 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 1.5 months in Glasgow compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Glasgow ranked 3rd best city to live in the United Kingdom vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 52nd and 5547th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Glasgow vs Kharkiv

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	Glasgow	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$19.9	$5.68
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$96.4	$19.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.1	$4.93
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$6.73	$1.03
☕ Cappuccino	$4.81	$1.24
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.96	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1172	$206
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$856	$125
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2085	$358
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1575	$223
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$197	$55.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$301	$85.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$39.1	$5.43
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	4.83%	18.62%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4064	$1364
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3045	$698
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$3.97	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$94.2	$10.1
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$24.9	$3.56
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.93	$1.27
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.62	$1
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.52	$0.54
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.17	$0.96
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.74	$1.5
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.2	$7.62
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.1	$3.82
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.4	$6.98
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.12	$0.84
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.52	$1.66
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.35	$1.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.45	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.65	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.65	$0.51
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.86	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.98	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$10.6	$4.76
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.1	$0.78
🚬 Cigarette pack	$21.1	$2.05
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.03	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.61	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.03	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.5	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$49	$21.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$16.1	$4.2
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$85.9	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$17.7	$3.01
👖 Brand Jeans	$118	$54.4
👟 Brand Sneakers	$102	$83.2
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1138	$351
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$18105	$3156

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Cities near Glasgow

Distance	City	Cost of living
11 km or 6.9 mi	East Kilbride	$1840
11 km or 7.1 mi	Paisley	$1837
16 km or 10 mi	Hamilton	$1797
19 km or 12 mi	Cumbernauld	$1619
32 km or 20 mi	Kilmarnock	$1527
34 km or 21 mi	Greenock	$1575
35 km or 21 mi	Stirling	$1711
37 km or 23 mi	Irvine	$1630
40 km or 25 mi	Alloa	$1762
46 km or 29 mi	Livingston	$1775
50 km or 31 mi	Ayr	$1522
54 km or 34 mi	Dunfermline	$1728
66 km or 41 mi	Edinburgh	$2310
73 km or 45 mi	Kirkcaldy	$1768
78 km or 49 mi	Perth	$1641
97 km or 60 mi	Dumfries	$1485
104 km or 65 mi	Dundee	$1480
136 km or 85 mi	Carlisle	$1759
152 km or 94 mi	Whitehaven	$1778
161 km or 100 mi	Bangor	$1484
170 km or 106 mi	Newtownabbey	$1808
176 km or 110 mi	Belfast	$1884
181 km or 112 mi	Inverness	$2021
187 km or 116 mi	Lisburn	$1879
191 km or 119 mi	Douglas	$2205
193 km or 120 mi	Newcastle upon Tyne	$1963
195 km or 121 mi	Aberdeen	$1769
196 km or 121 mi	Gateshead	$1906
200 km or 124 mi	Jarrow	$1825
201 km or 125 mi	Tynemouth	$1805
202 km or 126 mi	South Shields	$1780
203 km or 126 mi	Washington	$1797
207 km or 128 mi	Elgin	$1507
208 km or 129 mi	Durham	$2079
210 km or 131 mi	Sunderland	$1602
211 km or 131 mi	Bishop Auckland	$1761
218 km or 135 mi	Derry	$1551
219 km or 136 mi	Morecambe	$1840
222 km or 138 mi	Lancaster	$1839
227 km or 141 mi	Darlington	$1429

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$718
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$479
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$496
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$639
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$649
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$790
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$633
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$656
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$440
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$650
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$516
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$534
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$501
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$732
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$707
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$498
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$503
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$660
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$616
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$539
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$545
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$665
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$570
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$629
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$516
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$652
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$851
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$718
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$879
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$497
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$475
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$516
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$420
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$672
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$837
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$582
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$709
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$586