Warsaw vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Warsaw	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1607	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$3809	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$995	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1825	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$369	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$107	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$1906	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	7 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	94	46
😀 Quality of life	83	60
🏙️ Population	1.86M	1.47M

The cost of living in Warsaw is 110% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 3022nd and 6596th ($1607 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 2nd and 14th in Poland and Russia, respectively. Check Poland vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.2 months in Warsaw compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Warsaw ranked 1st best city to live in Poland vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 410th and 5209th 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	$10.1	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$50.6	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$8.81	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$4.05	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.95	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.93	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$949	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$749	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1958	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1406	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$189	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$292	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$16.2	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	7.47%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$6081	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$4065	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$1.12	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$27.6	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$10.6	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.64	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.06	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.29	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.55	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$3.23	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.38	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$6	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.5	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.17	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.68	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.81	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.33	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.95	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.08	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.45	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.54	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$7.55	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.25	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$5.02	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$8.06	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$3.99	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.18	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$3.23	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$39.5	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$8.87	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$59.4	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$28.2	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$86.8	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$88.8	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$522	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$13608	$4946

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Cities near Warsaw

Distance	City	Cost of living
17 km or 10 mi	Pruszkow	$1324
19 km or 12 mi	Otwock	$1302
68 km or 42 mi	Skierniewice	$1090
79 km or 49 mi	Ciechanow	$1095
85 km or 53 mi	Siedlce	$882
91 km or 56 mi	Radom	$884
98 km or 61 mi	Plock	$1082
103 km or 64 mi	Ostroleka	$1025
110 km or 68 mi	Pulawy	$1125
114 km or 71 mi	Kutno	$1083
119 km or 74 mi	Lodz	$1170
127 km or 79 mi	Lomza	$964
130 km or 81 mi	Piotrkow Trybunalski	$947
143 km or 89 mi	Wloclawek	$989
144 km or 89 mi	Biala Podlaska	$965
145 km or 90 mi	Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski	$1051
149 km or 92 mi	Belchatow	$1016
152 km or 94 mi	Lublin	$1234
152 km or 94 mi	Kielce	$983
159 km or 99 mi	Swidnik	$1173
175 km or 109 mi	Bialystok	$935
178 km or 110 mi	Olsztyn	$1093
180 km or 112 mi	Brest	$469
186 km or 115 mi	Torun	$866
187 km or 116 mi	Tarnobrzeg	$1098
198 km or 123 mi	Inowroclaw	$1057
199 km or 123 mi	Elk	$1025
206 km or 128 mi	Czestochowa	$950
207 km or 129 mi	Chelm	$1107
208 km or 129 mi	Grudziadz	$1042
208 km or 129 mi	Kalisz	$902
217 km or 135 mi	Mielec	$1131
228 km or 141 mi	Bydgoszcz	$974
236 km or 146 mi	Gniezno	$1105
241 km or 150 mi	Malbork	$1108
243 km or 151 mi	Elblag	$977
243 km or 151 mi	Suwalki	$1016
245 km or 152 mi	Tarnow	$893
246 km or 153 mi	Dabrowa Gornicza	$1020
247 km or 153 mi	Grodno	$385

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