Kazan vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kazan	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$734	$506
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1795	$1360
🏠 One person rent	$375	$207
🏘️ Family rent	$716	$413
🍽️ Food expenses	$242	$198
🚐 Transport expenses	$47.5	$42.9
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$692	$388
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	54	60
😀 Quality of life	60	56
🏙️ Population	1.26M	1.42M

The cost of living in Kazan is 45% more expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 6742nd and 8600th ($734 vs $506) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 21st and 20th in Russia and Ukraine, respectively. Check Russia vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Kazan compared to 0.8 months in Kharkiv. Kazan ranked 7th best city to live in Russia vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 5162nd and 5713th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kazan vs Kharkiv

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	Kazan	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$6.84	$5.71
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$31.3	$20.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.12	$4.87
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.39	$1.02
☕ Cappuccino	$2.26	$1.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.9	$0.63
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$421	$207
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$282	$132
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$861	$444
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$561	$293
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$59	$55.2
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$89.4	$85
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.82	$5.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	15.99%	17.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2754	$1187
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1894	$662
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.44	$0.32
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$25.7	$9.94
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.29	$3.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.63	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.85	$0.98
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.58	$0.51
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.28	$0.98
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.51	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.72	$7.21
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.06	$3.65
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.93	$5.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.32	$0.66
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.49	$1.62
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.94	$1.73
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.15	$1.84
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.56	$0.49
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.5	$0.61
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.35	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.49	$0.77
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.78	$4.63
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.76	$0.74
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.29	$1.94
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.16	$4.19
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.44	$1.38
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.97	$0.66
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.22	$1.3
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.5	$21.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.57	$4.16
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.97	$8.94
💇 Haircut, simple	$5.57	$2.96
👖 Brand Jeans	$61.2	$50.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$95.3	$76.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$216	$360
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$4497	$3129

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Cities near Kazan

Distance	City	Cost of living
120 km or 75 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
122 km or 76 mi	Cheboksary	$592
170 km or 106 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
171 km or 106 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
202 km or 125 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
224 km or 139 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
254 km or 158 mi	Tolyatti	$612
279 km or 173 mi	Izhevsk	$637
295 km or 183 mi	Syzran	$590
297 km or 185 mi	Samara	$656
308 km or 191 mi	Saransk	$438
314 km or 195 mi	Kirov	$508
323 km or 200 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
355 km or 221 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$636
392 km or 243 mi	Penza	$524
426 km or 265 mi	Balakovo	$605
450 km or 279 mi	Ufa	$672
498 km or 310 mi	Perm	$595
500 km or 311 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
515 km or 320 mi	Salavat	$538
516 km or 321 mi	Saratov	$555
517 km or 321 mi	Ivanovo	$554
520 km or 323 mi	Engels	$557
528 km or 328 mi	Oral	$549
542 km or 337 mi	Vladimir	$681
544 km or 338 mi	Kostroma	$540
595 km or 370 mi	Orenburg	$534
600 km or 373 mi	Yaroslavl	$523
604 km or 375 mi	Tambov	$561
610 km or 379 mi	Ryazan	$564
661 km or 411 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
666 km or 414 mi	Elektrostal	$719
668 km or 415 mi	Zlatoust	$600
669 km or 415 mi	Vologda	$528
672 km or 417 mi	Rybinsk	$675
692 km or 430 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
697 km or 433 mi	Balashikha	$676
697 km or 433 mi	Miass	$596
700 km or 435 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
702 km or 436 mi	Lyubertsy	$867

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