Kharkiv vs Warsaw - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Kharkiv	Warsaw
🚶 Cost of living one person	$510	$1978
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1309	$4463
🏠 One person rent	$203	$1217
🏘️ Family rent	$340	$2001
🍽️ Food expenses	$202	$444
🚐 Transport expenses	$43.7	$155
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$434	$2042
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Moderate
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	7 km
🎓 Higher education	61	94
😀 Quality of life	63	85
🏙️ Population	1.42M	1.86M

The cost of living in Kharkiv is 74% less expensive than in Warsaw. Cities ranked 8604th and 2069th ($510 vs $1978) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 22nd and 1st in Ukraine and Poland, respectively. Check Ukraine vs Poland comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.9 months in Kharkiv compared to 1 months in Warsaw. Kharkiv ranked 3rd best city to live in Ukraine vs Warsaw ranked 1st in Poland, while ranked 5547th and 444th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kharkiv vs Warsaw

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	Kharkiv	Warsaw
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.68	$10.8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$19.5	$52
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.93	$9.78
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.03	$5.27
☕ Cappuccino	$1.24	$4.5
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.63	$2.35
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$206	$1225
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$125	$917
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$358	$2165
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$223	$1517
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$55.7	$218
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$85.4	$333
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$5.43	$20.7
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	18.62%	7.29%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1364	$6642
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$698	$4244
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.34	$1.14
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$10.1	$34
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.56	$19.4
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.27	$1.76
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1	$1.27
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.54	$1.37
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.96	$1.69
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.5	$4.09
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.62	$13.1
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.82	$8.87
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.98	$15.4
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.84	$1.43
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$1.81
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$2.11
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.85	$3.79
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.58	$1.07
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.51	$1.16
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.37	$0.46
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.78	$2.96
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.76	$10.4
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.78	$1.41
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.05	$6.3
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.18	$13.9
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.4	$4.29
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.66	$3.77
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.31	$3.71
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$21.4	$48.7
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.2	$10.1
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$8.94	$86.4
💇 Haircut, simple	$3.01	$28.1
👖 Brand Jeans	$54.4	$107
👟 Brand Sneakers	$83.2	$97.1
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$351	$588
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3156	$15871

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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 Warsaw

Distance	City	Cost of living
17 km or 10 mi	Pruszkow	$1561
19 km or 12 mi	Otwock	$1522
68 km or 42 mi	Skierniewice	$1199
79 km or 49 mi	Ciechanow	$1241
85 km or 53 mi	Siedlce	$1009
91 km or 56 mi	Radom	$1008
98 km or 61 mi	Plock	$1166
103 km or 64 mi	Ostroleka	$1113
110 km or 68 mi	Pulawy	$1226
114 km or 71 mi	Kutno	$1177
119 km or 74 mi	Lodz	$1338
127 km or 79 mi	Lomza	$993
130 km or 81 mi	Piotrkow Trybunalski	$966
143 km or 89 mi	Wloclawek	$902
144 km or 89 mi	Biala Podlaska	$1079
145 km or 90 mi	Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski	$1136
149 km or 92 mi	Belchatow	$1089
152 km or 94 mi	Lublin	$1323
152 km or 94 mi	Kielce	$1097
159 km or 99 mi	Swidnik	$1257
175 km or 109 mi	Bialystok	$1148
178 km or 110 mi	Olsztyn	$1182
180 km or 112 mi	Brest	$528
186 km or 115 mi	Torun	$926
187 km or 116 mi	Tarnobrzeg	$1216
198 km or 123 mi	Inowroclaw	$1186
199 km or 123 mi	Elk	$1125
206 km or 128 mi	Czestochowa	$1033
207 km or 129 mi	Chelm	$1185
208 km or 129 mi	Grudziadz	$1127
208 km or 129 mi	Kalisz	$970
217 km or 135 mi	Mielec	$843
228 km or 141 mi	Bydgoszcz	$1103
236 km or 146 mi	Gniezno	$1209
241 km or 150 mi	Malbork	$1210
243 km or 151 mi	Elblag	$1074
243 km or 151 mi	Suwalki	$1113
245 km or 152 mi	Tarnow	$966
246 km or 153 mi	Dabrowa Gornicza	$1077
247 km or 153 mi	Grodno	$349