Male vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Male	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1304	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3010	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$814	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1624	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$358	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$42	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1263	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	3 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	7	46
😀 Quality of life	62	60
🏙️ Population	133K	1.47M

The cost of living in Male is 70% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4205th and 6596th ($1304 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 2nd and 14th in Maldives and Russia, respectively. Check Maldives vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1 months in Male compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Male ranked 1st best city to live in Maldives vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 4917th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Male vs Yekaterinburg

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	Male	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.5	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$27.5	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$9.82	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.57	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.15	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.21	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$824	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$636	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1648	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1401	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$63.2	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$96.6	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$77.4	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	11.65%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2651	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2231	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.55	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$25.8	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$17.7	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.93	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.93	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.59	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.67	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.81	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.95	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.82	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.7	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.91	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.8	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.73	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.43	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.54	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.28	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.36	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.97	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$9.79	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.71	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$7.83	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.32	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.74	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.13	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.8	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$73.9	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$8.87	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$22	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$4.33	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$51.8	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$90.1	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$163	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$3201	$4946

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Male

Distance	City	Cost of living
5.4 km or 3.4 mi	Hulhumale	$1651
610 km or 379 mi	Thiruvananthapuram	$333
618 km or 384 mi	Varkala	$287
621 km or 386 mi	Nagercoil	$275
624 km or 388 mi	Kollam	$244
687 km or 427 mi	Tirunelveli	$273
688 km or 428 mi	Kottayam	$306
713 km or 443 mi	Kochi	$383
714 km or 444 mi	Ernakulam	$346
724 km or 450 mi	Thoothukudi	$296
761 km or 473 mi	Beruwala	$580
763 km or 474 mi	Colombo	$631
766 km or 476 mi	Thrissur	$294
771 km or 479 mi	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	$627
772 km or 479 mi	Galle	$498
777 km or 483 mi	Negombo	$467
788 km or 490 mi	Gampaha	$429
803 km or 499 mi	Matara	$502
814 km or 506 mi	Malappuram	$306
817 km or 507 mi	Madurai	$310
825 km or 513 mi	Kozhikode	$325
843 km or 524 mi	Dindigul	$316
849 km or 528 mi	Coimbatore	$339
862 km or 535 mi	Kandy	$425
879 km or 546 mi	Kannur	$344
892 km or 554 mi	Anuradhapura	$582
899 km or 559 mi	Tiruppur	$300
922 km or 573 mi	Erode	$295
935 km or 581 mi	Tiruchirappalli	$314
964 km or 599 mi	Thanjavur	$302
968 km or 602 mi	Mysore	$311
977 km or 607 mi	Salem	$304
979 km or 608 mi	Mangalore	$412
983 km or 611 mi	Trincomalee	$546
1027 km or 638 mi	Udupi	$280
1076 km or 669 mi	Bangalore	$533
1087 km or 675 mi	Cuddalore	$306
1093 km or 679 mi	Tumkur	$351
1106 km or 688 mi	Shimoga	$342
1108 km or 688 mi	Pondicherry	$360

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