Kharkiv vs Surat - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kharkiv	Surat
🚶 Cost of living one person	$506	$771
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1360	$1163
🏠 One person rent	$207	$519
🏘️ Family rent	$413	$463
🍽️ Food expenses	$198	$166
🚐 Transport expenses	$42.9	$44.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$388	$444
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Unhealthy
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	11 km
🎓 Higher education	60	40
😀 Quality of life	56	48
🏙️ Population	1.42M	5.94M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 34% less expensive than in Surat. Cities ranked 8600th and 6559th ($506 vs $771) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 20th and 1st in Ukraine and India, respectively. Check Ukraine vs India comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.8 months in Kharkiv compared to 0.6 months in Surat. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs Surat ranked 48th in India, while ranked 5713th and 6336th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kharkiv vs Surat

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	Kharkiv	Surat
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.71	$3.46
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$20.5	$11.6
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.87	$3.44
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.02	$2.87
☕ Cappuccino	$1.15	$1.74
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$0.45
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$207	$454
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$132	$498
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$444	$1021
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$293	$271
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.2	$22.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85	$34.6
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.01	$7.5
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	17.9%	8.88%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1187	$864
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$662	$637
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.32	$0.23
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$9.94	$5.71
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.47	$2.06
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.26	$1.14
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.98	$0.74
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.51	$0.55
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.98	$0.73
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.53	$0.99
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.21	$4.86
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.65	$3.38
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.94	$8.57
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.66	$1.51
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.62	$0.61
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.73	$0.94
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.84	$0.67
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.49	$0.35
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.61	$0.42
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.35	$0.23
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.77	$0.98
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.63	$8.53
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.74	$2.77
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.94	$3.85
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.19	$2.06
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.38	$3.1
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$0.88
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.3	$0.61
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.1	$18.9
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.16	$2.87
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$13.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.96	$2.39
👖 Brand Jeans	$50.5	$25.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$76.4	$46.7
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$360	$49.8
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3129	$1261

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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 Surat

Distance	City	Cost of living
26 km or 16 mi	Navsari	$286
98 km or 61 mi	Bhavnagar	$298
131 km or 82 mi	Vadodara	$376
164 km or 102 mi	Nashik	$333
170 km or 106 mi	Nadiad	$382
189 km or 117 mi	Vasai	$284
192 km or 119 mi	Malegaon	$378
196 km or 122 mi	Godhra	$371
208 km or 130 mi	Ahmedabad	$452
209 km or 130 mi	Bhiwandi	$362
216 km or 134 mi	Kalyan	$381
222 km or 138 mi	Thane	$501
228 km or 142 mi	Gandhinagar	$415
239 km or 148 mi	Navi Mumbai	$480
244 km or 152 mi	Rajkot	$311
245 km or 152 mi	Mumbai	$716
274 km or 170 mi	Mehsana	$389
284 km or 177 mi	Jalgaon	$348
296 km or 184 mi	Aurangabad	$350
314 km or 195 mi	Pune	$513
332 km or 206 mi	Ratlam	$311
338 km or 210 mi	Porbandar	$333
356 km or 221 mi	Indore	$367
377 km or 234 mi	Ujjain	$298
389 km or 242 mi	Udaipur	$310
399 km or 248 mi	Bhuj	$288
406 km or 252 mi	Satara	$304
436 km or 271 mi	Akola	$295
499 km or 310 mi	Latur	$397
500 km or 311 mi	Bhilwara	$340
505 km or 314 mi	Solapur	$293
511 km or 318 mi	Amravati	$296
512 km or 318 mi	Sangli	$292
514 km or 320 mi	Pali	$324
518 km or 322 mi	Kolhapur	$307
521 km or 324 mi	Nanded	$315
526 km or 327 mi	Bhopal	$363
526 km or 327 mi	Ichalkaranji	$304
541 km or 336 mi	Kota	$339
570 km or 354 mi	Bijapur	$340