Moscow vs New Taipei - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Moscow	New Taipei
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1438	$1135
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3409	$2924
🏠 One person rent	$864	$510
🏘️ Family rent	$1523	$885
🍽️ Food expenses	$357	$385
🚐 Transport expenses	$109	$127
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$881	$1378
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Moderate
✈️ Airport proximity	27 km	13 km
🎓 Higher education	96	94
😀 Quality of life	73	87
🏙️ Population	13.3M	4.04M

The cost of living in Moscow is 27% more expensive than in New Taipei. Cities ranked 4141st and 4867th ($1438 vs $1135) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 2nd in Russia and Taiwan, respectively. Check Russia vs Taiwan comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.6 months in Moscow compared to 1.2 months in New Taipei. Moscow ranked 1st best city to live in Russia vs New Taipei ranked 2nd in Taiwan, while ranked 2664th and 387th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Moscow vs New Taipei 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/moscow/new-taipei.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Moscow vs New Taipei infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/moscow/new-taipei" target="_blank">Moscow vs New Taipei - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Moscow vs New Taipei

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

	Moscow	New Taipei
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$12.3	$4.87
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$55.4	$32.3
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$6.18	$5.4
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.27	$1.8
☕ Cappuccino	$3.35	$2.4
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.47	$0.87
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1183	$520
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$660	$386
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2170	$947
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1176	$698
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$91.2	$72.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$140	$112
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$8.08	$25.1
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	24.47%	2.76%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$9466	$14096
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4008	$6224
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.87	$0.65
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$37.7	$39.4
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$5.62	$9.87
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.78	$1.01
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.25	$3.16
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.87	$1.63
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.55	$2.95
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.7	$2.68
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12.8	$12.9
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.71	$7.84
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.8	$22.6
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.8	$4.21
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2	$2.54
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.02	$2.29
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.57	$2.82
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.99	$3.57
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.8	$1.67
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.53	$0.54
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.5	$1.88
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$9.17	$9.46
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.12	$1.55
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.09	$4.87
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.18	$10.7
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.05	$7.86
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.92	$1.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.81	$2.82
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$43.4	$39.4
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$7.34	$11.4
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$34.3	$38.7
💇 Haircut, simple	$6.45	$17
👖 Brand Jeans	$78.3	$59.9
👟 Brand Sneakers	$127	$91.7
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$688	$571
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$15272	$17207

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Moscow

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Khimki	$914
19 km or 12 mi	Krasnogorsk	$915
19 km or 12 mi	Lyubertsy	$917
19 km or 12 mi	Mytishchi	$800
21 km or 13 mi	Balashikha	$898
22 km or 14 mi	Korolyov	$831
37 km or 23 mi	Podolsk	$876
52 km or 32 mi	Elektrostal	$863
96 km or 60 mi	Obninsk	$671
161 km or 100 mi	Kaluga	$582
161 km or 100 mi	Tver	$727
173 km or 107 mi	Tula	$837
179 km or 111 mi	Vladimir	$650
184 km or 114 mi	Ryazan	$692
248 km or 154 mi	Yaroslavl	$672
250 km or 155 mi	Ivanovo	$615
266 km or 165 mi	Rybinsk	$678
301 km or 187 mi	Kostroma	$765
326 km or 202 mi	Oryol	$660
349 km or 217 mi	Bryansk	$629
366 km or 228 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$697
369 km or 229 mi	Smolensk	$547
372 km or 231 mi	Lipetsk	$570
376 km or 234 mi	Cherepovets	$543
402 km or 250 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$882
408 km or 254 mi	Vologda	$544
419 km or 260 mi	Tambov	$672
457 km or 284 mi	Kursk	$649
466 km or 290 mi	Voronezh	$707
474 km or 294 mi	Vitebsk	$293
491 km or 305 mi	Veliky Novgorod	$734
495 km or 308 mi	Starooskolsky	$537
496 km or 308 mi	Stary Oskol	$485
509 km or 316 mi	Mogilev	$545
513 km or 319 mi	Saransk	$719
555 km or 345 mi	Penza	$537
568 km or 353 mi	Gomel	$475
571 km or 355 mi	Sumy	$496
577 km or 359 mi	Belgorod	$718
601 km or 373 mi	Cheboksary	$772

Cities near New Taipei

Distance	City	Cost of living
9.6 km or 6 mi	Taipei	$1313
29 km or 18 mi	Taoyuan	$942
33 km or 20 mi	Keelung	$1030
42 km or 26 mi	Yilan	$802
48 km or 30 mi	Zhubei	$868
53 km or 33 mi	Hsinchu	$993
80 km or 50 mi	Miaoli	$695
124 km or 77 mi	Taichung	$1006
140 km or 87 mi	Changhua	$914
144 km or 90 mi	Nantou	$894
171 km or 106 mi	Douliu	$894
198 km or 123 mi	Chiayi	$914
246 km or 153 mi	Fuzhou	$628
250 km or 155 mi	Putian	$634
252 km or 157 mi	Taitung	$854
259 km or 161 mi	Tainan	$894
267 km or 166 mi	Ningde	$628
283 km or 176 mi	Ishigaki	$1078
289 km or 179 mi	Quanzhou	$621
290 km or 180 mi	Jinjiang	$615
291 km or 181 mi	Kaohsiung	$1002
318 km or 197 mi	Rui'an	$700
321 km or 199 mi	Kinmen	$901
341 km or 212 mi	Wenzhou	$753
345 km or 214 mi	Xiamen	$707
375 km or 233 mi	Nanping	$671
375 km or 233 mi	Wenling	$677
386 km or 240 mi	Zhangzhou	$681
387 km or 241 mi	Miyakojima	$1079
408 km or 253 mi	Sanming	$616
411 km or 256 mi	Lishui	$696
428 km or 266 mi	Linhai	$666
445 km or 277 mi	Longyan	$697
457 km or 284 mi	Wuyishan	$600
489 km or 304 mi	Jinhua	$586
497 km or 309 mi	Yiwu	$672
507 km or 315 mi	Quzhou	$604
510 km or 317 mi	Chaozhou	$454
515 km or 320 mi	Shangrao	$650
515 km or 320 mi	Shantou	$589