Shanghai vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Shanghai	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1097	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3454	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$577	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1404	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$287	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$110	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1644	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	13 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	100	46
😀 Quality of life	78	60
🏙️ Population	24.9M	1.47M

The cost of living in Shanghai is 43% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4858th and 6596th ($1097 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 6th and 14th in China and Russia, respectively. Check China vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.5 months in Shanghai compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Shanghai ranked 4th best city to live in China vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 675th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Shanghai vs Yekaterinburg

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	Shanghai	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$4.55	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$39.8	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.4	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.45	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.93	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.52	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$823	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$455	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2226	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1115	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$33.5	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$51.6	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$14.8	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	3.83%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$14361	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$8086	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.55	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$34.1	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$5.85	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.13	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$2.2	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.95	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.35	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.84	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.5	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.29	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.9	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.25	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.64	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.81	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.54	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.86	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.12	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.37	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.26	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$12.2	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$0.84	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.39	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$6.38	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$6.95	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.68	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.27	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$55.8	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$8.1	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$87.9	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$11.1	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$60.7	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$75.8	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$1181	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$30174	$4946

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Cities near Shanghai

Distance	City	Cost of living
9.4 km or 5.8 mi	Pudong	$984
47 km or 29 mi	Taicang	$665
53 km or 33 mi	Kunshan	$700
74 km or 46 mi	Qidong	$701
82 km or 51 mi	Suzhou	$868
82 km or 51 mi	Jiaxing	$573
85 km or 53 mi	Haimen	$631
88 km or 55 mi	Changshu	$645
106 km or 66 mi	Nantong	$602
117 km or 73 mi	Zhangjiagang	$640
121 km or 75 mi	Wuxi	$670
135 km or 84 mi	Huzhou	$670
141 km or 87 mi	Jiangyin	$657
142 km or 88 mi	Zhoushan	$590
144 km or 89 mi	Ningbo	$708
148 km or 92 mi	Jingjiang	$643
155 km or 96 mi	Shaoxing	$716
158 km or 98 mi	Yixing	$695
159 km or 99 mi	Changzhou	$702
160 km or 100 mi	Rugao	$644
161 km or 100 mi	Hangzhou	$805
177 km or 110 mi	Taixing	$636
179 km or 111 mi	Hai'an	$643
191 km or 119 mi	Liyang	$654
197 km or 122 mi	Yangzhong	$603
198 km or 123 mi	Guangde	$650
201 km or 125 mi	Danyang	$607
208 km or 129 mi	Taizhou	$644
217 km or 135 mi	Dongtai	$665
223 km or 139 mi	Zhenjiang	$522
235 km or 146 mi	Yangzhou	$620
236 km or 146 mi	Jurong	$621
244 km or 152 mi	Ningguo	$642
246 km or 153 mi	Yiwu	$677
250 km or 155 mi	Xinghua	$665
250 km or 156 mi	Yizheng	$592
259 km or 161 mi	Linhai	$661
260 km or 161 mi	Xuancheng	$672
262 km or 163 mi	Gaoyou	$621
274 km or 170 mi	Nanjing	$746

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