Long Beach vs Munich - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Long Beach	Munich
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2851	$2463
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$6397	$5699
🏠 One person rent	$1879	$1467
🏘️ Family rent	$3145	$2572
🍽️ Food expenses	$664	$593
🚐 Transport expenses	$161	$237
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$4411	$3954
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	7 km	23 km
🎓 Higher education	94	90
😀 Quality of life	78	94
🏙️ Population	467K	1.51M

The cost of living in Long Beach is 16% more expensive than in Munich. Cities ranked 327th and 920th ($2851 vs $2463) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 273rd and 1st in the United States and Germany, respectively. Check the United States vs Germany comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.5 months in Long Beach compared to 1.6 months in Munich. Long Beach ranked 271st best city to live in the United States vs Munich ranked 8th in Germany, while ranked 982nd and 61st among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Long Beach vs Munich 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/long-beach/munich.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Long Beach vs Munich infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/long-beach/munich" target="_blank">Long Beach vs Munich - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Long Beach vs Munich

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

	Long Beach	Munich
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$19	$19.1
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$72.5	$80.9
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$14.4	$14.3
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$7.12	$5.48
☕ Cappuccino	$5.7	$4.83
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$3.53	$4.05
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1954	$1546
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1662	$1155
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$3174	$2816
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2872	$2089
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$102	$191
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$156	$294
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$56.6	$43.6
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.49%	4.03%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$7032	$13232
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6937	$9526
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.75	$4.77
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$72.7	$67.9
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$34.2	$27.7
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.3	$1.98
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$1.43
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$3.03	$2.55
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.6	$3.05
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.98	$4.32
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12.5	$17.4
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$16.6	$11.5
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.9	$16.7
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.83	$3.82
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.68	$2.23
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.86	$2.89
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5	$4.59
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.72	$2.25
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.62	$1.63
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.31	$0.71
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.81	$2.04
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$13.8	$8.4
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.36	$1.31
🚬 Cigarette pack	$10.4	$9.75
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$8.14	$9.33
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$8.07	$3.71
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.93	$2.11
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.64	$1.56
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$36.8	$53.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$15.2	$15.6
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$95.3	$80.8
💇 Haircut, simple	$16.1	$21.4
👖 Brand Jeans	$50.2	$102
👟 Brand Sneakers	$99.8	$106
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1674	$954
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$19997	$14492

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Long Beach

Distance	City	Cost of living
9.9 km or 6.2 mi	Carson	$2927
11 km or 6.5 mi	Seal Beach	$2903
11 km or 7 mi	Lakewood	$2717
11 km or 7.1 mi	Lomita	$3058
15 km or 9 mi	Compton	$2856
15 km or 9.2 mi	Bellflower	$2725
15 km or 9.2 mi	Paramount	$2731
15 km or 9.5 mi	Torrance	$3121
15 km or 9.6 mi	Cypress	$2793
16 km or 9.7 mi	Rancho Palos Verdes	$3688
16 km or 10 mi	Cerritos	$2651
17 km or 11 mi	Gardena	$3004
17 km or 11 mi	Lynwood	$2807
19 km or 12 mi	Norwalk	$2682
19 km or 12 mi	Westminster	$2917
19 km or 12 mi	Stanton	$2854
19 km or 12 mi	Redondo Beach	$3658
20 km or 12 mi	South Gate	$2762
20 km or 12 mi	Lawndale	$3122
20 km or 12 mi	Downey	$2650
20 km or 12 mi	Huntington Beach	$3221
20 km or 13 mi	Buena Park	$2803
22 km or 14 mi	Hawthorne	$2970
22 km or 14 mi	Garden Grove	$2899
22 km or 14 mi	Cudahy	$2764
23 km or 14 mi	Bell Gardens	$2728
23 km or 14 mi	La Mirada	$2774
23 km or 14 mi	Florence-Graham	$2844
23 km or 14 mi	Fountain Valley	$3157
23 km or 15 mi	Bell	$2780
24 km or 15 mi	Manhattan Beach	$3191
24 km or 15 mi	Huntington Park	$2803
24 km or 15 mi	Maywood	$2786
25 km or 16 mi	Inglewood	$2947
26 km or 16 mi	West Whittier-Los Nietos	$2769
26 km or 16 mi	Pico Rivera	$2758
27 km or 17 mi	Whittier	$2788
28 km or 17 mi	Fullerton	$3008
28 km or 18 mi	Montebello	$2739
29 km or 18 mi	Santa Ana	$2821

Cities near Munich

Distance	City	Cost of living
16 km or 9.6 mi	Germering	$1966
16 km or 10 mi	Unterschleiheim	$1924
17 km or 10 mi	Puchheim	$1956
17 km or 11 mi	Dachau	$1934
20 km or 13 mi	Olching	$1905
23 km or 15 mi	Starnberg	$1901
24 km or 15 mi	Furstenfeldbruck	$1876
31 km or 19 mi	Erding	$1731
31 km or 19 mi	Geretsried	$1842
32 km or 20 mi	Freising	$1757
44 km or 28 mi	Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm	$1725
47 km or 29 mi	Weilheim in Oberbayern	$1854
48 km or 30 mi	Aichach	$1784
50 km or 31 mi	Friedberg	$1841
52 km or 32 mi	Rosenheim	$1298
53 km or 33 mi	Konigsbrunn	$1826
53 km or 33 mi	Landsberg am Lech	$1790
57 km or 35 mi	Augsburg	$1954
61 km or 38 mi	Gersthofen	$1848
62 km or 38 mi	Landshut	$1745
62 km or 38 mi	Waldkraiburg	$1664
62 km or 39 mi	Neusa	$1851
71 km or 44 mi	Ingolstadt	$1659
71 km or 44 mi	Muhldorf	$1655
72 km or 45 mi	Neuburg an der Donau	$1671
76 km or 48 mi	Kaufbeuren	$1807
77 km or 48 mi	Traunreut	$1597
80 km or 50 mi	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	$2083
85 km or 53 mi	Traunstein	$1585
87 km or 54 mi	Donauworth	$1697
98 km or 61 mi	Innsbruck	$1917
103 km or 64 mi	Gunzburg	$1675
104 km or 65 mi	Kempten	$1706
105 km or 65 mi	Regensburg	$1720
105 km or 65 mi	Memmingen	$1725
110 km or 69 mi	Straubing	$1654
112 km or 70 mi	Nordlingen	$1657
114 km or 71 mi	Senden	$1654
116 km or 72 mi	Salzburg	$1904
119 km or 74 mi	Sonthofen	$1730