Malaga vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 10, 2024

	Malaga	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1519	$701
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3537	$1767
🏠 One person rent	$941	$347
🏘️ Family rent	$1683	$703
🍽️ Food expenses	$384	$227
🚐 Transport expenses	$85.1	$54.4
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1781	$601
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	9 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	24	46
😀 Quality of life	78	60
🏙️ Population	586K	1.47M

The cost of living in Malaga is 117% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 3616th and 6924th ($1519 vs $701) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 27th and 16th in Spain and Russia, respectively. Check Spain vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.2 months in Malaga compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Malaga ranked 18th best city to live in Spain vs Yekaterinburg ranked 7th in Russia, while ranked 654th and 5229th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Malaga vs Yekaterinburg

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	Malaga	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$13.2	$7.57
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$55.4	$32
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$8.85	$4.28
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.1	$1.62
☕ Cappuccino	$2.03	$1.93
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.06	$0.75
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1055	$377
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$761	$252
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1968	$836
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1402	$538
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$91.1	$62.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$138	$97.8
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$30.1	$7.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.57%	12.81%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6321	$1941
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2750	$1299
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.56	$0.35
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$28.2	$26.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$13.4	$4.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.76	$0.57
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.15	$0.77
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.17	$0.44
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.48	$1.1
🥚 Eggs, x12	$2.57	$1.3
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12.7	$8.74
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.94	$3.76
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.6	$6.95
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.12	$1.39
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.85	$1.36
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.6	$1.46
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.19	$2.14
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.63	$0.48
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.7	$0.53
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.54	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.08	$1.69
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.25	$5.42
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.24	$0.73
🚬 Cigarette pack	$6.13	$2.38
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.91	$3.48
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.2	$3.18
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.55	$0.69
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.43	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$41.6	$27.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$8.89	$4.31
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$49.5	$17
💇 Haircut, simple	$12.8	$7.16
👖 Brand Jeans	$61.4	$61.6
👟 Brand Sneakers	$92.5	$83.6
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$401	$180
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$14939	$4718

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Cities near Malaga

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Benalmadena	$1482
24 km or 15 mi	Mijas	$1432
27 km or 17 mi	Fuengirola	$1407
36 km or 22 mi	Antequera	$1272
48 km or 30 mi	Marbella	$2180
55 km or 34 mi	Loja	$1415
65 km or 40 mi	Almunecar	$993
67 km or 41 mi	Ronda	$1388
71 km or 44 mi	Estepona	$1430
80 km or 50 mi	Motril	$1146
89 km or 55 mi	Granada	$1288
94 km or 58 mi	Alcala la Real	$2079
104 km or 64 mi	La Linea de la Concepcion	$1214
105 km or 65 mi	Gibraltar City	$2431
109 km or 68 mi	Ecija	$1297
113 km or 70 mi	Los Barrios	$1097
114 km or 71 mi	Algeciras	$938
119 km or 74 mi	Martos	$1284
122 km or 76 mi	Ceuta	$1221
124 km or 77 mi	Arcos de la Frontera	$1229
125 km or 78 mi	Adra	$1108
130 km or 81 mi	Jaen	$1013
132 km or 82 mi	Tarifa	$1256
133 km or 83 mi	Cordoba	$1165
137 km or 85 mi	Carmona	$1290
143 km or 89 mi	El Ejido	$1025
148 km or 92 mi	Dos Hermanas	$1260
152 km or 94 mi	Jerez de la Frontera	$936
154 km or 96 mi	Tetouan	$535
158 km or 98 mi	Seville	$1358
158 km or 98 mi	Chiclana de la Frontera	$1341
162 km or 101 mi	Tangier	$710
169 km or 105 mi	Linares	$1316
169 km or 105 mi	Cadiz	$1454
171 km or 106 mi	Ubeda	$1461
174 km or 108 mi	Rota	$1446
176 km or 109 mi	Almeria	$1110
196 km or 122 mi	Almonte	$1196
207 km or 129 mi	Melilla	$855
218 km or 135 mi	Nador	$429

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$586
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$585
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$537
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$539
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$523
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$531
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$559
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$698
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$490
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$567
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$473
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$782
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$620
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$422
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$484
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$556
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$536
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$540
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$575
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$451
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$503
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$463
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$630
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$654
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$533
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$480
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$509
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$589
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$513
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$484
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$541
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$406
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$530
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$522
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$612
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$780
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$562
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$376
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$639
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$628