Moscow vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Moscow	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1244	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3114	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$730	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1434	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$312	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$100	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1546	$696
😷 Air quality	Good	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	27 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	96	46
😀 Quality of life	74	60
🏙️ Population	13.1M	1.47M

The cost of living in Moscow is 63% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4359th and 6596th ($1244 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 14th 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 8th best cities to live in Russia, and 1187th vs 5209th 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	$9.55	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$46.7	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.26	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$3.79	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$2.85	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.24	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$971	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$566	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2192	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1092	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$73.7	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$113	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$9.08	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	22.71%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$7641	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$3605	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.72	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$31.2	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$6.31	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.65	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.07	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.67	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.16	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.75	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.11	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.7	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.71	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.05	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.35	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.71	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.66	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.45	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.94	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$9.06	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.99	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.72	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.36	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.92	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.01	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.82	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$38.9	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$5.52	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$28.7	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$6.41	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$82.5	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$124	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$591	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$12252	$4946

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Cities near Moscow

Distance	City	Cost of living
18 km or 11 mi	Khimki	$786
19 km or 12 mi	Krasnogorsk	$791
19 km or 12 mi	Lyubertsy	$867
19 km or 12 mi	Mytishchi	$622
21 km or 13 mi	Balashikha	$676
22 km or 14 mi	Korolyov	$743
37 km or 23 mi	Podolsk	$633
52 km or 32 mi	Elektrostal	$719
96 km or 60 mi	Obninsk	$609
161 km or 100 mi	Kaluga	$538
161 km or 100 mi	Tver	$639
173 km or 107 mi	Tula	$552
179 km or 111 mi	Vladimir	$681
184 km or 114 mi	Ryazan	$564
248 km or 154 mi	Yaroslavl	$523
250 km or 155 mi	Ivanovo	$554
266 km or 165 mi	Rybinsk	$675
301 km or 187 mi	Kostroma	$540
326 km or 202 mi	Oryol	$505
349 km or 217 mi	Bryansk	$513
366 km or 228 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$636
369 km or 229 mi	Smolensk	$479
372 km or 231 mi	Lipetsk	$430
376 km or 234 mi	Cherepovets	$584
402 km or 250 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$717
408 km or 254 mi	Vologda	$528
419 km or 260 mi	Tambov	$561
457 km or 284 mi	Kursk	$490
466 km or 290 mi	Voronezh	$448
474 km or 294 mi	Vitebsk	$300
491 km or 305 mi	Veliky Novgorod	$737
495 km or 308 mi	Starooskolsky	$473
496 km or 308 mi	Stary Oskol	$434
509 km or 316 mi	Mogilev	$474
513 km or 319 mi	Saransk	$438
555 km or 345 mi	Penza	$524
568 km or 353 mi	Gomel	$440
571 km or 355 mi	Sumy	$486
577 km or 359 mi	Belgorod	$552
601 km or 373 mi	Cheboksary	$592

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