Muscat vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Muscat	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1090	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2569	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$541	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$966	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$334	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$114	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1772	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	31 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	43	46
😀 Quality of life	70	60
🏙️ Population	1.42M	1.47M

The cost of living in Muscat is 42% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4892nd and 6596th ($1090 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 14th in Oman and Russia, respectively. Check Oman vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.6 months in Muscat compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Muscat ranked 1st best city to live in Oman vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 2404th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Muscat vs Yekaterinburg

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	Muscat	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$5.18	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$25.9	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$7.86	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$13	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$4.83	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.03	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$581	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$362	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1144	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$713	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$63.4	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$95.9	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$71.4	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	5.06%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1690	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1296	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.3	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$61.9	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$9.37	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.62	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.77	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.16	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.78	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$2.44	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.1	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.37	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.25	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.58	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.76	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.83	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.18	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.95	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.97	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.36	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.2	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$18.1	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.37	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$6.24	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.32	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$5.33	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$2.14	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$5	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$48.2	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$10.5	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$37.8	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$8.76	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$55.9	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$85.6	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$198	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$10296	$4946

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Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Muscat

Distance	City	Cost of living
44 km or 27 mi	Seeb	$967
132 km or 82 mi	Nizwa	$780
277 km or 172 mi	Chabahar	$585
284 km or 177 mi	Fujairah	$1239
297 km or 184 mi	Al Ain	$1844
356 km or 221 mi	Ras al-Khaimah	$1540
372 km or 231 mi	Ajman	$2240
375 km or 233 mi	Umm al-Quwain	$1196
377 km or 235 mi	Sharjah	$1494
380 km or 236 mi	Dubai	$2379
439 km or 273 mi	Abu Dhabi	$1828
451 km or 280 mi	Iranshahr	$605
463 km or 288 mi	Bandar Abbas	$634
503 km or 313 mi	Madinat Zayed	$1721
569 km or 354 mi	Jiroft	$518
611 km or 380 mi	Bam	$515
691 km or 429 mi	Zahedan	$829
711 km or 442 mi	Sirjan	$514
739 km or 459 mi	Doha	$1779
740 km or 460 mi	Jahrom	$547
752 km or 467 mi	Al Khor	$1709
757 km or 470 mi	Kerman	$464
770 km or 479 mi	Fasa	$548
797 km or 495 mi	Rafsanjan	$507
858 km or 533 mi	Riffa	$1223
858 km or 533 mi	Manama	$1280
860 km or 534 mi	Isa Town	$1243
865 km or 537 mi	Karachi	$442
870 km or 541 mi	Salalah	$809
873 km or 543 mi	Zabol	$552
898 km or 558 mi	Shiraz	$589
901 km or 560 mi	Dhahran	$1068
902 km or 561 mi	Marvdasht	$563
911 km or 566 mi	Dammam	$1056
926 km or 575 mi	Al-Mubarraz	$804
938 km or 583 mi	Qatif	$897
960 km or 596 mi	Kazerun	$557
966 km or 600 mi	Borazjan	$546
973 km or 604 mi	Jubail	$901
976 km or 606 mi	Bushehr	$551

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