Moscow vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 10, 2024

	Moscow	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1075	$701
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2731	$1767
🏠 One person rent	$612	$347
🏘️ Family rent	$1215	$703
🍽️ Food expenses	$272	$227
🚐 Transport expenses	$92.9	$54.4
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1262	$601
😷 Air quality	Good	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	27 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	96	46
😀 Quality of life	74	60
🏙️ Population	13M	1.47M

The cost of living in Moscow is 53% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 5091st and 6924th ($1075 vs $701) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 16th in Russia.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.2 months in Moscow compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Ranked 1st vs 7th best cities to live in Russia, and 1280th vs 5229th among the best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Moscow vs Yekaterinburg

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	Moscow	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$8.34	$7.57
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$37.3	$32
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.89	$4.28
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.22	$1.62
☕ Cappuccino	$2.62	$1.93
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.17	$0.75
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$842	$377
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$456	$252
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1827	$836
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$918	$538
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$70	$62.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$107	$97.8
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$8.71	$7.01
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	17.17%	12.81%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6312	$1941
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3303	$1299
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.65	$0.35
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$28	$26.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$6.13	$4.47
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.59	$0.57
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.98	$0.77
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.59	$0.44
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.06	$1.1
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.62	$1.3
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.55	$8.74
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.57	$3.76
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.48	$6.95
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.51	$1.39
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.52	$1.36
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.63	$1.46
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.2	$2.14
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.52	$0.48
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.48	$0.53
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.4	$0.35
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.76	$1.69
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.75	$5.42
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.9	$0.73
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.41	$2.38
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$4.18	$3.48
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.93	$3.18
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.73	$0.69
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.74	$1.31
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$30.9	$27.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$5.07	$4.31
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$32.3	$17
💇 Haircut, simple	$5.63	$7.16
👖 Brand Jeans	$85.1	$61.6
👟 Brand Sneakers	$114	$83.6
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$495	$180
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$11652	$4718

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Cities near Moscow

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Khimki	$736
19 km or 12 mi	Krasnogorsk	$743
19 km or 12 mi	Lyubertsy	$797
19 km or 12 mi	Mytishchi	$583
21 km or 13 mi	Balashikha	$633
22 km or 14 mi	Korolyov	$672
37 km or 23 mi	Podolsk	$566
52 km or 32 mi	Elektrostal	$660
96 km or 60 mi	Obninsk	$606
161 km or 100 mi	Kaluga	$490
161 km or 100 mi	Tver	$590
173 km or 107 mi	Tula	$507
179 km or 111 mi	Vladimir	$616
184 km or 114 mi	Ryazan	$515
248 km or 154 mi	Yaroslavl	$533
250 km or 155 mi	Ivanovo	$498
266 km or 165 mi	Rybinsk	$623
301 km or 187 mi	Kostroma	$507
326 km or 202 mi	Oryol	$471
349 km or 217 mi	Bryansk	$450
366 km or 228 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$541
369 km or 229 mi	Smolensk	$461
372 km or 231 mi	Lipetsk	$401
376 km or 234 mi	Cherepovets	$551
402 km or 250 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$639
408 km or 254 mi	Vologda	$480
419 km or 260 mi	Tambov	$508
457 km or 284 mi	Kursk	$457
466 km or 290 mi	Voronezh	$419
474 km or 294 mi	Vitebsk	$298
491 km or 305 mi	Veliky Novgorod	$682
495 km or 308 mi	Starooskolsky	$447
496 km or 308 mi	Stary Oskol	$415
509 km or 316 mi	Mogilev	$467
513 km or 319 mi	Saransk	$376
555 km or 345 mi	Penza	$514
568 km or 353 mi	Gomel	$469
571 km or 355 mi	Sumy	$449
577 km or 359 mi	Belgorod	$451
601 km or 373 mi	Cheboksary	$541

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