Leipzig vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Leipzig	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1516	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3783	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$764	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1542	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$505	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$128	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$2738	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	14 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	72	46
😀 Quality of life	92	60
🏙️ Population	620K	1.47M

The cost of living in Leipzig is 98% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 3353rd and 6596th ($1516 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 271st and 14th in Germany and Russia, respectively. Check Germany vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.8 months in Leipzig compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Leipzig ranked 14th best city to live in Germany vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 87th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Leipzig vs Yekaterinburg

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	Leipzig	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$12.5	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$63.3	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.5	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.42	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.66	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.73	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$687	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$504	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1640	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1119	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$176	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$271	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$47.6	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.99%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3984	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2535	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$3.65	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$52.2	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$17.9	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.83	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.14	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.01	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.39	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.45	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$13.7	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$14.5	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$17.8	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.95	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.71	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.21	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.91	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.58	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.57	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.59	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.78	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.29	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.92	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$8.51	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$9.3	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$1.97	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.22	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.29	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$33.7	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$12.6	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$33.7	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$18.5	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$90.1	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$82.9	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$372	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$9452	$4946

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Cities near Leipzig

Distance	City	Cost of living
6.2 km or 3.8 mi	Markkleeberg	$1452
22 km or 13 mi	Delitzsch	$1419
26 km or 16 mi	Grimma	$1353
27 km or 17 mi	Merseburg	$1269
32 km or 20 mi	Bitterfeld-Wolfen	$1308
33 km or 20 mi	Weienfels	$1284
33 km or 21 mi	Halle	$1229
36 km or 22 mi	Halle-Neustadt	$1261
36 km or 22 mi	Zeitz	$1295
39 km or 24 mi	Altenburg	$1281
45 km or 28 mi	Naumburg	$1287
50 km or 31 mi	Torgau	$1350
54 km or 34 mi	Kothen	$1346
55 km or 34 mi	Gera	$1109
56 km or 35 mi	Dobeln	$1278
57 km or 35 mi	Dessau-Rolau	$1340
58 km or 36 mi	Glauchau	$1147
58 km or 36 mi	Limbach-Oberfrohna	$1222
61 km or 38 mi	Eisleben	$1306
62 km or 39 mi	Wittenberg	$1354
63 km or 39 mi	Riesa	$1309
67 km or 41 mi	Werdau	$1118
67 km or 42 mi	Chemnitz	$1187
69 km or 43 mi	Bernburg	$1388
69 km or 43 mi	Zwickau	$1011
70 km or 43 mi	Apolda	$1221
72 km or 45 mi	Jena	$1123
74 km or 46 mi	Zerbst	$1332
77 km or 48 mi	Greiz	$1215
77 km or 48 mi	Sangerhausen	$1312
78 km or 49 mi	Meissen	$1325
79 km or 49 mi	Aschersleben	$1355
80 km or 50 mi	Reichenbach im Vogtland	$1147
82 km or 51 mi	Freiberg	$1202
82 km or 51 mi	Stafurt	$1356
84 km or 52 mi	Weimar	$1288
86 km or 54 mi	Coswig	$1341
88 km or 54 mi	Schonebeck	$1326
93 km or 58 mi	Radebeul	$1351
94 km or 59 mi	Annaberg-Buchholz	$1307

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