Kabul vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kabul	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$474	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1052	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$203	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$302	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$158	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$81.8	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$218	$388
😷 Air quality	Unhealthy	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	6 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	30	60
😀 Quality of life	14	56
🏙️ Population	4.27M	1.42M

The cost of living in Kabul is 6% less expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 8769th and 8600th ($474 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 3rd and 20th in Afghanistan and Ukraine, respectively. Check Afghanistan vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.5 months in Kabul compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Kabul ranked 1st best city to live in Afghanistan vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 9071st and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Kabul vs Kharkiv infographic

Share this infographic!

Use the link below to embed the infographic from our site and automatically keep the data layer up to date.

If you prefer to download the image, please credit us as a source.

<img src="https://livingcost.org/assets/photo/cost/kabul/kharkiv.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Kabul vs Kharkiv infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/kabul/kharkiv" target="_blank">Kabul vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Kabul vs Kharkiv

Prices for goods and services in Kabul and Kharkiv are partly crowdsourced by our visitors, just like yourself. Please consider telling us about your city.

	Kabul	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$2.38	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$9.34	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.64	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.11	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$1.53	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.32	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$140	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$90	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$312	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$141	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$43.2	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$66.8	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$59.8	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	18.54%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$404	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$202	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.2	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$18.8	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$7.27	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.88	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.8	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.27	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.18	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.39	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.36	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.8	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.88	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.71	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.77	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.77	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.55	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.39	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.41	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.2	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.88	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$8.12	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.49	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.38	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$2.97	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.48	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.01	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.37	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$12.8	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$2.15	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$13.2	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.79	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$16.1	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$34.4	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$17.2	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1356	$3129

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

$349

$907

$6.64K

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Kabul

Distance	City	Cost of living
105 km or 65 mi	Gardez	$386
119 km or 74 mi	Jalalabad	$303
129 km or 80 mi	Ghazni	$389
150 km or 93 mi	Khost	$366
163 km or 101 mi	Puli Khumri	$381
223 km or 138 mi	Peshawar	$346
235 km or 146 mi	Kohat	$379
246 km or 153 mi	Kunduz	$394
266 km or 166 mi	Mardan	$366
293 km or 182 mi	Mingora	$364
304 km or 189 mi	Mazar-i-Sharif	$408
336 km or 209 mi	Wah	$382
368 km or 229 mi	Islamabad	$442
369 km or 229 mi	Qurghonteppa	$596
374 km or 232 mi	Rawalpindi	$401
389 km or 242 mi	Sheberghan	$414
425 km or 264 mi	Sargodha	$458
450 km or 280 mi	Tursunzoda	$593
451 km or 280 mi	Dushanbe	$605
451 km or 280 mi	Mirpur	$354
456 km or 284 mi	Mandi Bahauddin	$355
458 km or 285 mi	Kandahar	$468
467 km or 290 mi	Jhang	$292
474 km or 294 mi	Chiniot	$389
476 km or 296 mi	Baramulla	$273
499 km or 310 mi	Gojra	$342
501 km or 312 mi	Hafizabad	$380
503 km or 313 mi	Faisalabad	$306
505 km or 314 mi	Gujrat	$373
517 km or 321 mi	Dera Ghazi Khan	$297
520 km or 323 mi	Srinagar	$354
523 km or 325 mi	Quetta	$266
526 km or 327 mi	Multan	$392
534 km or 332 mi	Sahiwal	$305
536 km or 333 mi	Gujranwala	$308
538 km or 334 mi	Khanewal	$361
546 km or 340 mi	Sialkot	$281
549 km or 341 mi	Sheikhupura	$374
550 km or 342 mi	Kamoke	$321
553 km or 344 mi	Lashkargah	$476

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