Kharkiv vs Mexico City - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kharkiv	Mexico City
🚶 Cost of living one person	$506	$1160
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1360	$2923
🏠 One person rent	$207	$603
🏘️ Family rent	$413	$1214
🍽️ Food expenses	$198	$374
🚐 Transport expenses	$42.9	$78.2
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$388	$709
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Moderate
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	8 km
🎓 Higher education	60	92
😀 Quality of life	56	67
🏙️ Population	1.42M	9.21M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 56% less expensive than in Mexico City. Cities ranked 8600th and 4604th ($506 vs $1160) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 20th and 7th in Ukraine and Mexico, respectively. Check Ukraine vs Mexico comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.8 months in Kharkiv compared to 0.6 months in Mexico City. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs Mexico City ranked 1st in Mexico, while ranked 5713th and 3470th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kharkiv vs Mexico City

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	Kharkiv	Mexico City
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.71	$11.1
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$20.5	$46.5
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.87	$8.02
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$2.84
☕ Cappuccino	$1.15	$3.69
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$1.23
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$207	$846
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$132	$475
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$444	$1732
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$293	$998
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.2	$27.8
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85	$42.3
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.01	$26.7
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	17.9%	11.34%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1187	$2952
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$662	$2197
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.32	$0.29
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$9.94	$19.9
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.47	$3.96
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.26	$1.21
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.98	$1.45
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.51	$2.11
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.98	$1.59
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.53	$2.43
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.21	$9.12
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.65	$7.41
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.94	$10.8
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.66	$2.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.62	$1.54
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.73	$1.85
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.84	$1.87
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.49	$1.78
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.61	$1.97
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.35	$0.61
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.77	$1.8
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.63	$12.4
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.74	$1.51
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.94	$3.89
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.19	$5.17
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.38	$4.39
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$1.79
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.3	$1.96
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.1	$56.6
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.16	$4.97
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$45
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.96	$16.7
👖 Brand Jeans	$50.5	$53.2
👟 Brand Sneakers	$76.4	$94.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$360	$401
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3129	$9034

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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

Cities near Mexico City

Distance	City	Cost of living
11 km or 7.1 mi	Naucalpan	$800
14 km or 8.7 mi	Tlalnepantla	$741
17 km or 10 mi	Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl	$814
19 km or 12 mi	Ciudad Lopez Mateos	$849
22 km or 14 mi	Ecatepec de Morelos	$704
25 km or 16 mi	Tultitlan de Mariano Escobedo	$770
25 km or 16 mi	Chicoloapan de Juarez	$828
26 km or 16 mi	Cuautitlan Izcalli	$742
29 km or 18 mi	Texcoco de Mora	$787
30 km or 19 mi	Tultepec	$747
31 km or 19 mi	Chalco de Diaz Covarrubias	$820
42 km or 26 mi	Zumpango	$761
55 km or 34 mi	Toluca	$696
56 km or 35 mi	Cuernavaca	$745
60 km or 37 mi	Jiutepec	$752
70 km or 44 mi	Cuautla	$858
89 km or 55 mi	Pachuca	$632
93 km or 58 mi	Atlixco	$825
105 km or 65 mi	San Jose Villa de Allende	$760
106 km or 66 mi	Puebla	$981
107 km or 67 mi	Taxco	$788
126 km or 79 mi	Iguala	$821
140 km or 87 mi	San Juan del Rio	$826
184 km or 114 mi	Queretaro	$983
192 km or 119 mi	Teziutlan	$770
211 km or 131 mi	Chilpancingo	$608
213 km or 132 mi	Tehuacan	$485
214 km or 133 mi	Celaya	$638
216 km or 134 mi	Poza Rica	$635
217 km or 135 mi	Morelia	$717
224 km or 139 mi	Cortazar	$693
224 km or 139 mi	Orizaba	$724
225 km or 140 mi	Yuriria	$725
229 km or 143 mi	Coatepec	$700
234 km or 145 mi	Xalapa	$574
236 km or 146 mi	San Miguel de Allende	$1139
239 km or 149 mi	Cordoba	$759
250 km or 155 mi	Salamanca	$634
269 km or 167 mi	Irapuato	$667
281 km or 174 mi	Zacapu	$804