Kyiv vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Kyiv	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$850	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2107	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$445	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$817	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$252	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$66.5	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$571	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	7 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	71	46
😀 Quality of life	64	60
🏙️ Population	2.95M	1.47M

The cost of living in Kyiv is 11% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 6262nd and 6596th ($850 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 14th in Ukraine and Russia, respectively. Check Ukraine vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.7 months in Kyiv compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Kyiv ranked 1st best city to live in Ukraine vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 4484th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Kyiv vs Yekaterinburg

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	Kyiv	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$7.61	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$32.8	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$6.26	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.43	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$1.51	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.65	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$515	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$336	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1066	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$617	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$67.3	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$103	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$6.37	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	18.89%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2228	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1274	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.19	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$14.3	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$5.23	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.31	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.19	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.67	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.28	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.81	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.3	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.21	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.44	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.82	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.56	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.7	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.36	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.77	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.54	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.37	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.11	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.1	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.84	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.49	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.21	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.4	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.52	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.56	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$34.5	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$5.57	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$16.1	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$9.55	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$73.6	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$95.6	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$392	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$7184	$4946

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Cities near Kyiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
78 km or 49 mi	Bila Tserkva	$454
129 km or 80 mi	Chernihiv	$433
134 km or 83 mi	Zhytomyr	$549
157 km or 97 mi	Cherkasy	$455
200 km or 124 mi	Vinnytsia	$562
224 km or 139 mi	Gomel	$440
250 km or 155 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$513
258 km or 160 mi	Kremenchuk	$444
277 km or 172 mi	Khmelnytskyi	$483
302 km or 188 mi	Soroca	$863
302 km or 188 mi	Rivne	$394
305 km or 189 mi	Poltava	$490
305 km or 190 mi	Sumy	$486
313 km or 195 mi	Babruysk	$438
349 km or 217 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$486
354 km or 220 mi	Balti	$876
360 km or 224 mi	Pinsk	$435
363 km or 226 mi	Orhei	$829
365 km or 227 mi	Ternopil	$462
366 km or 227 mi	Kamianske	$605
368 km or 228 mi	Dubasari	$780
368 km or 229 mi	Lutsk	$510
385 km or 239 mi	Mogilev	$474
392 km or 243 mi	Dnipro	$718
402 km or 250 mi	Chisinau	$892
402 km or 250 mi	Mykolaiv	$400
406 km or 252 mi	Tiraspol	$517
408 km or 254 mi	Bryansk	$513
409 km or 254 mi	Kharkiv	$506
409 km or 254 mi	Bender	$502
410 km or 255 mi	Chernivtsi	$533
411 km or 255 mi	Botosani	$727
412 km or 256 mi	Ungheni	$1062
420 km or 261 mi	Kursk	$490
424 km or 263 mi	Iasi	$840
430 km or 267 mi	Belgorod	$552
431 km or 268 mi	Baranavichy	$517
434 km or 269 mi	Minsk	$727
440 km or 273 mi	Suceava	$709
441 km or 274 mi	Barysaw	$570

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$646
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$648
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$592
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$600
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$617
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$596
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$595
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$765
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$531
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$672
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$506
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$710
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$637
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$454
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$538
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$613
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$580
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$593
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$557
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$509
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$534
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$508
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$619
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$734
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$548
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$569
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$537
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$656
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$612
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$559
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$592
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$631
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$549
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$590
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$654
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$770
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$605
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$438
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$658