Kharkiv vs Lucknow - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Kharkiv	Lucknow
🚶 Cost of living one person	$510	$339
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1309	$828
🏠 One person rent	$203	$113
🏘️ Family rent	$340	$190
🍽️ Food expenses	$202	$141
🚐 Transport expenses	$43.7	$47.6
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$434	$352
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Unhealthy
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	11 km
🎓 Higher education	61	63
😀 Quality of life	63	57
🏙️ Population	1.42M	3.38M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 50% more expensive than in Lucknow. Cities ranked 8604th and 9112th ($510 vs $339) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 22nd and 85th in Ukraine and India, respectively. Check Ukraine vs India comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Kharkiv compared to 1 months in Lucknow. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs Lucknow ranked 29th in India, while ranked 5547th and 6127th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kharkiv vs Lucknow

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	Kharkiv	Lucknow
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.68	$1.97
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$19.5	$11.2
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.93	$3.39
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.03	$1.69
☕ Cappuccino	$1.24	$1.6
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$0.33
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$206	$123
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$125	$70.6
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$358	$219
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$223	$126
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.7	$25.1
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85.4	$38.5
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.43	$7.4
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	18.62%	8.57%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1364	$1253
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$698	$627
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.34	$0.39
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$10.1	$5.66
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.56	$3.46
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.27	$1.15
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1	$0.73
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.54	$0.48
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.96	$0.63
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.5	$1
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.62	$3.78
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.82	$2.53
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.98	$5.99
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.84	$1.62
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$0.59
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$0.84
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.85	$0.5
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.58	$0.34
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.51	$0.46
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.37	$0.23
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.78	$0.94
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.76	$7.92
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.78	$1.62
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.05	$3.79
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.18	$1.9
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.4	$3.06
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$1.56
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.31	$0.99
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.4	$17.8
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.2	$3.4
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$11.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.01	$2.57
👖 Brand Jeans	$54.4	$22.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$83.2	$39.1
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$351	$43.6
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3156	$1151

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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

Cities near Lucknow

Distance	City	Cost of living
74 km or 46 mi	Kanpur	$320
180 km or 112 mi	Allahabad	$300
207 km or 129 mi	Dhangadhi	$383
213 km or 132 mi	Jaunpur	$279
226 km or 141 mi	Bareilly	$290
238 km or 148 mi	Bheemdatta	$367
243 km or 151 mi	Gorakhpur	$298
249 km or 155 mi	Mirzapur	$276
267 km or 166 mi	Varanasi	$273
283 km or 176 mi	Gwalior	$329
284 km or 176 mi	Jhansi	$345
292 km or 182 mi	Agra	$388
299 km or 186 mi	Satna	$306
305 km or 189 mi	Sambhal	$301
306 km or 190 mi	Aligarh	$304
311 km or 193 mi	Moradabad	$290
331 km or 205 mi	Mathura	$293
336 km or 209 mi	Pokhara	$386
389 km or 242 mi	Birgunj	$328
398 km or 247 mi	Meerut	$350
399 km or 248 mi	Faridabad	$383
402 km or 250 mi	Ghaziabad	$372
405 km or 252 mi	Noida	$437
409 km or 254 mi	Hetauda	$293
419 km or 260 mi	Delhi	$489
422 km or 262 mi	Jabalpur	$296
425 km or 264 mi	Gurgaon	$514
436 km or 271 mi	Alwar	$260
440 km or 274 mi	Patna	$320
443 km or 276 mi	Lalitpur	$350
445 km or 276 mi	Rishikesh	$371
447 km or 278 mi	Kathmandu	$427
454 km or 282 mi	Sonipat	$270
456 km or 284 mi	Muzaffarpur	$284
469 km or 292 mi	Gaya	$297
480 km or 298 mi	Dehradun	$388
480 km or 298 mi	Saharanpur	$285
486 km or 302 mi	Vidisha	$334
487 km or 303 mi	Rohtak	$248
494 km or 307 mi	Janakpur	$293