Manchester vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Manchester	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$2071	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$5081	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$1241	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$2185	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$510	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$179	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$2923	$696
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	91	46
😀 Quality of life	92	60
🏙️ Population	548K	1.47M

The cost of living in Manchester is 171% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 1662nd and 6596th ($2071 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 46th and 14th in the United Kingdom and Russia, respectively. Check the United Kingdom vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.4 months in Manchester compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Manchester ranked 13th best city to live in the United Kingdom vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 85th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Manchester vs Yekaterinburg

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	Manchester	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$16.7	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$73.9	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$9.7	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$6.16	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$4.46	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.46	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1351	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$936	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2179	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1788	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$186	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$283	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$35.9	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.9%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$5330	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3723	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.54	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$110	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$24.9	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.94	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.49	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.46	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.8	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.85	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.3	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.71	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.9	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.04	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.77	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.5	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.4	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.72	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.7	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.92	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.58	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$10.3	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.45	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$16.6	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$7.03	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.47	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.35	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.79	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$43.2	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$11.5	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$84.8	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$13.6	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$86.9	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$88	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1818	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$19551	$4946

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Manchester

Distance	City	Cost of living
4.3 km or 2.7 mi	Salford	$1948
5.3 km or 3.3 mi	Droylsden	$1800
5.5 km or 3.4 mi	Stretford	$1874
7.5 km or 4.7 mi	Sale	$1845
9.1 km or 5.7 mi	Ashton-under-Lyne	$1720
12 km or 7.2 mi	Oldham	$1602
12 km or 7.6 mi	Altrincham	$1788
15 km or 9.1 mi	Bury	$1806
17 km or 11 mi	Rochdale	$1672
19 km or 12 mi	Bolton	$1806
24 km or 15 mi	Macclesfield	$1720
26 km or 16 mi	Warrington	$1962
28 km or 17 mi	Wigan	$1574
34 km or 21 mi	Chorley	$1675
34 km or 21 mi	St Helens	$1497
35 km or 22 mi	Widnes	$1753
35 km or 22 mi	Blackburn	$1686
35 km or 22 mi	Runcorn	$1762
36 km or 22 mi	Burnley	$1376
36 km or 22 mi	Huddersfield	$1680
38 km or 23 mi	Halifax	$1793
39 km or 25 mi	Brighouse	$1737
42 km or 26 mi	Leek	$1686
43 km or 27 mi	Crewe	$1486
45 km or 28 mi	Preston	$1456
46 km or 29 mi	Dewsbury	$1693
48 km or 30 mi	Bradford	$1598
49 km or 30 mi	Batley	$1707
49 km or 30 mi	Ellesmere Port	$1774
49 km or 31 mi	Keighley	$1680
50 km or 31 mi	Bootle	$1706
51 km or 31 mi	Newcastle-under-Lyme	$1465
51 km or 32 mi	Barnsley	$1401
51 km or 32 mi	Liverpool	$1774
51 km or 32 mi	Sheffield	$1764
52 km or 32 mi	Stoke-on-Trent	$1552
52 km or 33 mi	Chester	$1897
53 km or 33 mi	Bebington	$1710
53 km or 33 mi	Birkenhead	$1697
53 km or 33 mi	Crosby	$1681

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