Karachi vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Karachi	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$430	$510
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1029	$1309
🏠 One person rent	$168	$203
🏘️ Family rent	$274	$340
🍽️ Food expenses	$146	$202
🚐 Transport expenses	$71.4	$43.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$132	$434
😷 Air quality	Bad	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	8 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	63	61
😀 Quality of life	54	63
🏙️ Population	14.9M	1.42M

The cost of living in Karachi is 16% less expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 8915th and 8604th ($430 vs $510) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 2nd and 22nd in Pakistan and Ukraine, respectively. Check Pakistan vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.3 months in Karachi compared to 0.9 months in Kharkiv. Karachi ranked 1st best city to live in Pakistan vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 6371st and 5547th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Karachi vs Kharkiv

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	Karachi	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$1.75	$5.68
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$12.3	$19.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.41	$4.93
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.85	$1.03
☕ Cappuccino	$2.05	$1.24
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.39	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$115	$206
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$71.8	$125
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$204	$358
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$133	$223
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$75.2	$55.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$115	$85.4
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$12.1	$5.43
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	16.46%	18.62%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$579	$1364
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$371	$698
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.32	$0.34
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$8.76	$10.1
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$6.37	$3.56
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.92	$1.27
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.81	$1
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.57	$0.54
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.13	$0.96
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.13	$1.5
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.72	$7.62
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.3	$3.82
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.37	$6.98
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.09	$0.84
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.61	$1.66
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.95	$1.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.52	$1.85
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.36	$0.58
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.38	$0.51
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.27	$0.37
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.82	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$1.24	$4.76
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.27	$0.78
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.1	$2.05
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$1.76	$4.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.17	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.35	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.8	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$15.4	$21.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.27	$4.2
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$11.9	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$1.95	$3.01
👖 Brand Jeans	$18.6	$54.4
👟 Brand Sneakers	$63.1	$83.2
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$67.6	$351
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1491	$3156

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Cities near Karachi

Distance	City	Cost of living
148 km or 92 mi	Hyderabad	$382
208 km or 129 mi	Nawabshah	$324
213 km or 132 mi	Mirpur Khas	$395
324 km or 201 mi	Larkana	$336
324 km or 201 mi	Bhuj	$290
366 km or 227 mi	Sukkur	$340
406 km or 252 mi	Jacobabad	$322
445 km or 277 mi	Porbandar	$330
480 km or 298 mi	Rajkot	$324
564 km or 351 mi	Mehsana	$382
593 km or 368 mi	Quetta	$291
601 km or 374 mi	Ahmedabad	$442
604 km or 375 mi	Gandhinagar	$407
626 km or 389 mi	Bhavnagar	$291
629 km or 391 mi	Jodhpur	$322
643 km or 399 mi	Pali	$305
643 km or 399 mi	Nadiad	$375
645 km or 401 mi	Chabahar	$573
675 km or 419 mi	Udaipur	$315
679 km or 422 mi	Dera Ghazi Khan	$254
683 km or 425 mi	Bahawalpur	$301
683 km or 425 mi	Iranshahr	$624
692 km or 430 mi	Vadodara	$374
711 km or 442 mi	Godhra	$366
719 km or 447 mi	Bikaner	$290
723 km or 449 mi	Surat	$705
736 km or 457 mi	Multan	$403
745 km or 463 mi	Navsari	$278
761 km or 473 mi	Kandahar	$436
769 km or 478 mi	Bhilwara	$328
775 km or 482 mi	Khanewal	$362
785 km or 488 mi	Ajmer	$274
792 km or 492 mi	Lashkargah	$439
796 km or 494 mi	Zahedan	$808
812 km or 504 mi	Burewala	$347
836 km or 519 mi	Ratlam	$303
845 km or 525 mi	Vasai	$267
865 km or 537 mi	Muscat	$1081
866 km or 538 mi	Sikar	$335
874 km or 543 mi	Zabol	$558

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