Kharkiv vs Peshawar - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Kharkiv	Peshawar
🚶 Cost of living one person	$510	$334
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1309	$809
🏠 One person rent	$203	$119
🏘️ Family rent	$340	$193
🍽️ Food expenses	$202	$136
🚐 Transport expenses	$43.7	$40.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$434	$113
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Unhealthy
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	2 km
🎓 Higher education	61	47
😀 Quality of life	63	43
🏙️ Population	1.42M	1.97M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 53% more expensive than in Peshawar. Cities ranked 8604th and 9121st ($510 vs $334) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 22nd and 21st in Ukraine and Pakistan, respectively. Check Ukraine vs Pakistan comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Kharkiv compared to 0.3 months in Peshawar. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs Peshawar ranked 7th in Pakistan, while ranked 5547th and 7430th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kharkiv vs Peshawar

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	Kharkiv	Peshawar
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.68	$2.81
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$19.5	$12.4
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.93	$4.22
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.03	$1.75
☕ Cappuccino	$1.24	$1.11
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$0.32
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$206	$84.3
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$125	$46.3
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$358	$155
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$223	$85.3
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.7	$54.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85.4	$82.3
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.43	$11.1
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	18.62%	18.9%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1364	$267
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$698	$213
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.34	$0.18
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$10.1	$7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.56	$3.94
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.27	$0.94
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1	$0.83
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.54	$0.63
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.96	$1.16
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.5	$1.21
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.62	$3.4
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.82	$2.9
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.98	$3.94
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.84	$1.03
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$0.66
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$0.91
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.85	$0.45
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.58	$0.38
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.51	$0.44
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.37	$0.26
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.78	$0.82
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.76	$1.74
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.78	$1.71
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.05	$1.77
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.18	$0.71
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.4	$1.2
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$0.59
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.31	$0.57
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.4	$9.69
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.2	$3.56
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$10.8
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.01	$1.86
👖 Brand Jeans	$54.4	$13.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$83.2	$61.7
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$351	$28.4
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3156	$2261

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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 Peshawar

Distance	City	Cost of living
46 km or 29 mi	Kohat	$364
55 km or 34 mi	Mardan	$354
108 km or 67 mi	Jalalabad	$354
114 km or 71 mi	Wah	$344
117 km or 72 mi	Mingora	$351
146 km or 91 mi	Islamabad	$443
152 km or 94 mi	Rawalpindi	$416
164 km or 102 mi	Khost	$393
215 km or 133 mi	Gardez	$401
223 km or 138 mi	Kabul	$458
230 km or 143 mi	Mirpur	$277
239 km or 149 mi	Sargodha	$376
244 km or 151 mi	Mandi Bahauddin	$326
262 km or 163 mi	Baramulla	$265
287 km or 179 mi	Gujrat	$320
289 km or 179 mi	Ghazni	$396
289 km or 180 mi	Chiniot	$372
296 km or 184 mi	Hafizabad	$363
305 km or 189 mi	Srinagar	$340
313 km or 195 mi	Jhang	$294
323 km or 201 mi	Faisalabad	$333
324 km or 201 mi	Gujranwala	$302
328 km or 204 mi	Sialkot	$311
335 km or 208 mi	Puli Khumri	$404
336 km or 209 mi	Gojra	$351
340 km or 211 mi	Kamoke	$316
341 km or 212 mi	Jammu	$284
346 km or 215 mi	Sheikhupura	$368
357 km or 222 mi	Sahiwal	$303
381 km or 237 mi	Lahore	$427
387 km or 240 mi	Kunduz	$428
400 km or 248 mi	Okara	$291
410 km or 255 mi	Amritsar	$380
413 km or 257 mi	Khanewal	$362
423 km or 263 mi	Multan	$403
432 km or 268 mi	Pathankot	$350
442 km or 275 mi	Burewala	$347
447 km or 278 mi	Dera Ghazi Khan	$254
484 km or 301 mi	Jalandhar	$337
492 km or 306 mi	Qurghonteppa	$684