Kharkiv vs New Taipei - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Kharkiv	New Taipei
🚶 Cost of living one person	$510	$1135
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1309	$2924
🏠 One person rent	$203	$510
🏘️ Family rent	$340	$885
🍽️ Food expenses	$202	$385
🚐 Transport expenses	$43.7	$127
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$434	$1378
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Moderate
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	13 km
🎓 Higher education	61	94
😀 Quality of life	63	87
🏙️ Population	1.42M	4.04M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 55% less expensive than in New Taipei. Cities ranked 8604th and 4867th ($510 vs $1135) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 22nd and 2nd in Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively. Check Ukraine vs Taiwan comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Kharkiv compared to 1.2 months in New Taipei. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs New Taipei ranked 2nd in Taiwan, while ranked 5547th and 387th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Kharkiv vs New Taipei 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/kharkiv/new-taipei.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Kharkiv vs New Taipei infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/kharkiv/new-taipei" target="_blank">Kharkiv vs New Taipei - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Kharkiv vs New Taipei

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

	Kharkiv	New Taipei
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.68	$4.87
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$19.5	$32.3
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.93	$5.4
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.03	$1.8
☕ Cappuccino	$1.24	$2.4
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$0.87
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$206	$520
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$125	$386
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$358	$947
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$223	$698
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.7	$72.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85.4	$112
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.43	$25.1
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	18.62%	2.76%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1364	$14096
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$698	$6224
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.34	$0.65
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$10.1	$39.4
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.56	$9.87
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.27	$1.01
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1	$3.16
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.54	$1.63
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.96	$2.95
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.5	$2.68
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.62	$12.9
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.82	$7.84
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.98	$22.6
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.84	$4.21
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$2.54
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$2.29
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.85	$2.82
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.58	$3.57
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.51	$1.67
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.37	$0.54
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.78	$1.88
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.76	$9.46
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.78	$1.55
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.05	$4.87
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.18	$10.7
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.4	$7.86
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$1.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.31	$2.82
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.4	$39.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.2	$11.4
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$38.7
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.01	$17
👖 Brand Jeans	$54.4	$59.9
👟 Brand Sneakers	$83.2	$91.7
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$351	$571
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3156	$17207

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

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 New Taipei

Distance	City	Cost of living
9.6 km or 6 mi	Taipei	$1313
29 km or 18 mi	Taoyuan	$942
33 km or 20 mi	Keelung	$1030
42 km or 26 mi	Yilan	$802
48 km or 30 mi	Zhubei	$868
53 km or 33 mi	Hsinchu	$993
80 km or 50 mi	Miaoli	$695
124 km or 77 mi	Taichung	$1006
140 km or 87 mi	Changhua	$914
144 km or 90 mi	Nantou	$894
171 km or 106 mi	Douliu	$894
198 km or 123 mi	Chiayi	$914
246 km or 153 mi	Fuzhou	$628
250 km or 155 mi	Putian	$634
252 km or 157 mi	Taitung	$854
259 km or 161 mi	Tainan	$894
267 km or 166 mi	Ningde	$628
283 km or 176 mi	Ishigaki	$1078
289 km or 179 mi	Quanzhou	$621
290 km or 180 mi	Jinjiang	$615
291 km or 181 mi	Kaohsiung	$1002
318 km or 197 mi	Rui'an	$700
321 km or 199 mi	Kinmen	$901
341 km or 212 mi	Wenzhou	$753
345 km or 214 mi	Xiamen	$707
375 km or 233 mi	Nanping	$671
375 km or 233 mi	Wenling	$677
386 km or 240 mi	Zhangzhou	$681
387 km or 241 mi	Miyakojima	$1079
408 km or 253 mi	Sanming	$616
411 km or 256 mi	Lishui	$696
428 km or 266 mi	Linhai	$666
445 km or 277 mi	Longyan	$697
457 km or 284 mi	Wuyishan	$600
489 km or 304 mi	Jinhua	$586
497 km or 309 mi	Yiwu	$672
507 km or 315 mi	Quzhou	$604
510 km or 317 mi	Chaozhou	$454
515 km or 320 mi	Shangrao	$650
515 km or 320 mi	Shantou	$589