New York City vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	New York City	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$4203	$962
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$9136	$2318
🏠 One person rent	$2713	$492
🏘️ Family rent	$4396	$852
🍽️ Food expenses	$874	$322
🚐 Transport expenses	$379	$58.2
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$5599	$848
😷 Air quality	Excellent	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	100	46
😀 Quality of life	98	64
🏙️ Population	8.8M	1.47M

The cost of living in New York City is 337% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4th and 5881st ($4203 vs $962) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 2nd and 6th in the United States and Russia, respectively. Check the United States vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.3 months in New York City compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. New York City ranked 1st best city to live in the United States vs Yekaterinburg ranked 6th in Russia, while ranked 11th and 5334th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in New York City vs Yekaterinburg

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	New York City	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$23.2	$12.8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$92.4	$48.9
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$14	$6.17
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$8.67	$1.85
☕ Cappuccino	$6.18	$2.86
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$3.07	$1.44
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$3669	$557
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$2221	$363
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$5076	$990
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$3880	$651
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$137	$80.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$211	$123
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$66.2	$9.66
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.42%	17.52%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$15299	$2565
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$11127	$1410
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$2.93	$0.4
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$134	$24.5
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$25	$5.34
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.9	$0.72
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.58	$1.05
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$4.49	$0.64
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.71	$1.37
🥚 Eggs, x12	$7.75	$1.56
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$19.9	$12.8
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.9	$4.5
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$19.5	$10.7
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.19	$1.91
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.5	$1.83
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.91	$2.18
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6.35	$2.77
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.38	$0.69
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.71	$0.74
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.66	$0.48
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$3.76	$2.01
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$18.1	$7.09
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.3	$1.09
🚬 Cigarette pack	$18.8	$3.08
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$23.2	$3.97
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$13.9	$3.62
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$8.03	$0.78
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.87	$1.5
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$128	$44.1
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$20.7	$4.9
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$157	$18
💇 Haircut, simple	$37.3	$5.56
👖 Brand Jeans	$63.2	$81.5
👟 Brand Sneakers	$119	$106
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1884	$451
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$22663	$7319

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Cities near New York City

Distance	City	Cost of living
11 km or 6.6 mi	Astoria	$2569
11 km or 6.8 mi	Hoboken	$3364
11 km or 7.1 mi	Jersey	$3066
13 km or 8.3 mi	Union	$2913
14 km or 8.8 mi	West New York	$2733
14 km or 8.9 mi	Bayonne	$3253
15 km or 9.6 mi	North Bergen	$2717
17 km or 10 mi	Secaucus	$2783
17 km or 11 mi	Cliffside Park	$2727
18 km or 11 mi	Kearny	$2725
20 km or 12 mi	Valley Stream	$2735
20 km or 13 mi	Fort Lee	$2811
20 km or 13 mi	Lyndhurst	$2671
22 km or 14 mi	Newark	$2712
23 km or 14 mi	Elizabeth	$2765
23 km or 14 mi	Belleville	$2538
25 km or 15 mi	Hillside	$2688
25 km or 15 mi	Long Beach	$2756
25 km or 15 mi	Nutley	$2545
25 km or 16 mi	East Orange	$2475
25 km or 16 mi	Irvington	$2614
26 km or 16 mi	Rockville Centre	$2647
26 km or 16 mi	Linden	$2770
26 km or 16 mi	Hackensack	$2705
26 km or 16 mi	Bloomfield	$2513
26 km or 16 mi	Teaneck	$2749
26 km or 16 mi	Carteret	$2774
26 km or 16 mi	Passaic	$2695
27 km or 17 mi	Roselle	$2769
27 km or 17 mi	Hempstead	$2655
28 km or 17 mi	Union Township	$2730
28 km or 18 mi	Clifton	$2718
28 km or 18 mi	Maplewood	$2609
29 km or 18 mi	Montclair	$2506
29 km or 18 mi	Bergenfield	$2723
29 km or 18 mi	Mount Vernon	$2911
30 km or 18 mi	Rahway	$2779
30 km or 18 mi	Uniondale	$2680
30 km or 18 mi	West Orange	$2470
30 km or 18 mi	New Rochelle	$3174

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$828
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$821
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$843
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$754
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$829
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$763
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$714
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$909
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$675
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$802
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$656
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$681
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$635
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$698
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$725
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$755
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$681
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$709
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$520
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$563
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$695
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$536
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$685
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$868
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$519
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$620
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$693
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$796
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$686
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$641
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$772
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$786
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$548
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$692
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$767
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$729
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$658
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$719
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$882
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$617