Kharkiv vs Shangqiu - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kharkiv	Shangqiu
🚶 Cost of living one person	$506	$736
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1360	$1915
🏠 One person rent	$207	$371
🏘️ Family rent	$413	$643
🍽️ Food expenses	$198	$224
🚐 Transport expenses	$42.9	$69.1
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$388	$707
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Bad
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	60	24
😀 Quality of life	56	38
🏙️ Population	1.42M	7.82M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 31% less expensive than in Shangqiu. Cities ranked 8600th and 6735th ($506 vs $736) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 20th and 43rd in Ukraine and China, respectively. Check Ukraine vs China comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.8 months in Kharkiv compared to 1 months in Shangqiu. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs Shangqiu ranked 300th in China, while ranked 5713th and 7140th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

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

Prices in Kharkiv vs Shangqiu

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

	Kharkiv	Shangqiu
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.71	$3.69
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$20.5	$19.6
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.87	$5.58
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$1.06
☕ Cappuccino	$1.15	$2.94
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$0.5
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$207	$296
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$132	$335
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$444	$464
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$293	$609
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.2	$34.1
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85	$52.6
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.01	$10.4
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	17.9%	3.97%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1187	$3083
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$662	$1982
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.32	$0.29
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$9.94	$16.3
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.47	$3.67
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.26	$1.1
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.98	$1.88
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.51	$1.5
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.98	$0.83
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.53	$1.45
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.21	$11.5
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.65	$2.83
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.94	$10.6
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.66	$1.58
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.62	$1.12
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.73	$1.37
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.84	$1.08
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.49	$0.65
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.61	$0.77
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.35	$0.39
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.77	$1.17
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.63	$14.6
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.74	$0.71
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.94	$3.17
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.19	$4.11
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.38	$3.81
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$2.19
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.3	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.1	$39.3
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.16	$5.84
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$27
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.96	$4.21
👖 Brand Jeans	$50.5	$45.4
👟 Brand Sneakers	$76.4	$69.4
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$360	$371
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3129	$17921

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

$349

$907

$6.64K

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

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 Shangqiu

Distance	City	Cost of living
92 km or 57 mi	Yongcheng	$600
92 km or 57 mi	Heze	$1385
117 km or 73 mi	Huaibei	$584
121 km or 75 mi	Changyuan	$787
126 km or 79 mi	Kaifeng	$545
128 km or 79 mi	Zoucheng	$660
128 km or 80 mi	Zhoukou	$580
129 km or 80 mi	Xiangcheng	$577
132 km or 82 mi	Jieshou	$591
137 km or 85 mi	Jining	$643
142 km or 89 mi	Xuzhou	$484
150 km or 93 mi	Suzhou	$602
156 km or 97 mi	Tengzhou	$591
159 km or 99 mi	Puyang	$800
170 km or 106 mi	Fuyang	$633
174 km or 108 mi	Xuchang	$586
174 km or 108 mi	Changge	$547
176 km or 110 mi	Xinzheng	$538
178 km or 110 mi	Luohe	$591
178 km or 111 mi	Qufu	$593
181 km or 112 mi	Zaozhuang	$548
181 km or 113 mi	Weihui	$571
185 km or 115 mi	Zhengzhou	$512
188 km or 117 mi	Xinxiang	$575
192 km or 119 mi	Hebi	$625
202 km or 126 mi	Yuzhou	$552
204 km or 127 mi	Huixian	$551
208 km or 129 mi	Xinmi	$528
210 km or 131 mi	Xingyang	$519
217 km or 135 mi	Pizhou	$575
220 km or 137 mi	Anyang	$578
220 km or 137 mi	Zhumadian	$637
221 km or 137 mi	Feicheng	$571
227 km or 141 mi	Liaocheng	$522
229 km or 142 mi	Bengbu	$505
229 km or 143 mi	Pingdingshan	$591
233 km or 145 mi	Wugang	$571
236 km or 147 mi	Tai'an	$561
238 km or 148 mi	Jiaozuo	$479
240 km or 149 mi	Dengfeng	$529