Warsaw vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: June 21, 2026

	Warsaw	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1979	$1163
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$4492	$2729
🏠 One person rent	$1227	$633
🏘️ Family rent	$2071	$1107
🍽️ Food expenses	$449	$368
🚐 Transport expenses	$145	$53.1
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$2218	$1033
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	7 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	94	48
😀 Quality of life	87	64
🏙️ Population	1.86M	1.47M

The cost of living in Warsaw is 70% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 2081st and 4849th ($1979 vs $1163) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 4th in Poland and Russia, respectively. Check Poland vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.1 months in Warsaw compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Warsaw ranked 1st best city to live in Poland vs Yekaterinburg ranked 5th in Russia, while ranked 335th and 5361st among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Warsaw vs Yekaterinburg

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	Warsaw	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$12.5	$14.4
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$53.1	$56.9
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$10.6	$6.85
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$5.19	$2.26
☕ Cappuccino	$4.64	$3.27
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$2.49	$1.64
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$1266	$737
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$928	$486
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$2296	$1319
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1584	$877
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$212	$84.4
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$325	$128
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$20	$12.7
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	6.81%	21.97%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6270	$2871
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4047	$1871
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.21	$0.53
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$35.1	$20.7
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$17.1	$4.2
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.7	$0.91
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.37	$1.24
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.47	$0.73
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.84	$1.43
🥚 Eggs, x12	$4.27	$1.77
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$12.5	$14.2
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$8.11	$5.64
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$15.4	$13.4
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.5	$2.17
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.81	$1.97
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.01	$1.81
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.78	$3.18
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.06	$0.76
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.05	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.51	$0.65
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$3.3	$2.22
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$10.4	$8.24
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.33	$1.32
🚬 Cigarette pack	$6.67	$3.5
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$11.9	$4.32
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.22	$3.99
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.27	$0.86
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.4	$1.65
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$48.2	$56.8
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$10.1	$6.22
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$75.7	$20.2
💇 Haircut, simple	$24.4	$5.59
👖 Brand Jeans	$110	$91.2
👟 Brand Sneakers	$107	$141
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$591	$381
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$15882	$7933

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Cities near Warsaw

Distance	City	Cost of living
17 km or 10 mi	Pruszkow	$1570
19 km or 12 mi	Otwock	$1540
68 km or 42 mi	Skierniewice	$1227
79 km or 49 mi	Ciechanow	$1253
85 km or 53 mi	Siedlce	$1023
91 km or 56 mi	Radom	$1030
98 km or 61 mi	Plock	$1162
103 km or 64 mi	Ostroleka	$1165
110 km or 68 mi	Pulawy	$1262
114 km or 71 mi	Kutno	$1222
119 km or 74 mi	Lodz	$1322
127 km or 79 mi	Lomza	$1060
130 km or 81 mi	Piotrkow Trybunalski	$1024
143 km or 89 mi	Wloclawek	$976
144 km or 89 mi	Biala Podlaska	$1078
145 km or 90 mi	Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski	$1173
149 km or 92 mi	Belchatow	$1137
152 km or 94 mi	Lublin	$1305
152 km or 94 mi	Kielce	$1170
159 km or 99 mi	Swidnik	$1260
175 km or 109 mi	Bialystok	$1229
178 km or 110 mi	Olsztyn	$1454
180 km or 112 mi	Brest	$669
186 km or 115 mi	Torun	$925
187 km or 116 mi	Tarnobrzeg	$1241
198 km or 123 mi	Inowroclaw	$1235
199 km or 123 mi	Elk	$1170
206 km or 128 mi	Czestochowa	$1043
207 km or 129 mi	Chelm	$1205
208 km or 129 mi	Grudziadz	$1215
208 km or 129 mi	Kalisz	$954
217 km or 135 mi	Mielec	$868
228 km or 141 mi	Bydgoszcz	$1102
236 km or 146 mi	Gniezno	$1216
241 km or 150 mi	Malbork	$1226
243 km or 151 mi	Elblag	$1010
243 km or 151 mi	Suwalki	$1114
245 km or 152 mi	Tarnow	$980
246 km or 153 mi	Dabrowa Gornicza	$1105
247 km or 153 mi	Grodno	$445

Cities near Yekaterinburg

Distance	City	Cost of living
95 km or 59 mi	Municipal Formation of the Kamensk-Uralsky	$954
96 km or 59 mi	Kamensk-Uralsky	$952
126 km or 78 mi	Nizhny Tagil	$952
194 km or 120 mi	Zlatoust	$757
194 km or 121 mi	Chelyabinsk	$786
201 km or 125 mi	Miass	$780
291 km or 181 mi	Perm	$791
302 km or 188 mi	Tyumen	$1024
333 km or 207 mi	Kurgan	$713
371 km or 231 mi	Ufa	$913
396 km or 246 mi	Magnitogorsk	$656
447 km or 277 mi	Kostanay	$702
448 km or 278 mi	Izhevsk	$708
461 km or 287 mi	Sterlitamak	$788
486 km or 302 mi	Salavat	$840
524 km or 326 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$868
558 km or 346 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$771
559 km or 348 mi	Almetyevsk	$830
577 km or 358 mi	Petropavl	$575
639 km or 397 mi	Orsk	$615
666 km or 414 mi	Orenburg	$812
678 km or 421 mi	Kirov	$648
685 km or 426 mi	Kokshetau	$763
716 km or 445 mi	Kazan	$981
760 km or 473 mi	Aktobe	$606
771 km or 479 mi	Syktyvkar	$727
773 km or 480 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$754
780 km or 485 mi	Samara	$845
798 km or 496 mi	Tolyatti	$789
816 km or 507 mi	Ulyanovsk	$705
821 km or 510 mi	Cheboksary	$749
823 km or 511 mi	Omsk	$819
865 km or 537 mi	Oral	$620
872 km or 542 mi	Syzran	$792
882 km or 548 mi	Surgut	$784
949 km or 590 mi	Nur-Sultan	$823
982 km or 610 mi	Balakovo	$748
1011 km or 628 mi	Saransk	$834
1014 km or 630 mi	Nizhny Novgorod	$1051
1023 km or 636 mi	Nizhnevartovsk	$754