Cairo vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 10, 2024

	Cairo	Kharkiv
🚶 Cost of living one person	$424	$503
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1086	$1307
🏠 One person rent	$162	$210
🏘️ Family rent	$325	$392
🍽️ Food expenses	$168	$191
🚐 Transport expenses	$34.4	$39.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$152	$361
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	12 km	9 km
🎓 Higher education	83	60
😀 Quality of life	57	56
🏙️ Population	9.61M	1.42M

The cost of living in Cairo is 16% less expensive than in Kharkiv. Cities ranked 8926th and 8657th ($424 vs $503) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 2nd and 17th in Egypt and Ukraine, respectively. Check Egypt vs Ukraine comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.4 months in Cairo compared to 0.7 months in Kharkiv. Cairo ranked 1st best city to live in Egypt vs Kharkiv ranked 3rd in Ukraine, while ranked 5583rd and 5755th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Cairo vs Kharkiv infographic

Share this infographic!

Use the link below to embed the infographic from our site and automatically keep the data layer up to date.

If you prefer to download the image, please credit us as a source.

<img src="https://livingcost.org/assets/photo/cost/cairo/kharkiv.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Cairo vs Kharkiv infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/cairo/kharkiv" target="_blank">Cairo vs Kharkiv - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Cairo vs Kharkiv

Prices for goods and services in Cairo and Kharkiv are partly crowdsourced by our visitors, just like yourself. Please consider telling us about your city.

	Cairo	Kharkiv
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$3.97	$5.27
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$19.3	$22.1
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$4.24	$4.16
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.41	$1.11
☕ Cappuccino	$1.56	$1.2
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$0.34	$0.62
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$197	$223
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$121	$135
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$389	$464
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$266	$265
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$16.3	$52.7
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$24.9	$82.5
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$9.49	$4.8
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.85%	17.47%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$626	$1198
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$388	$685
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.21	$0.19
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$7.83	$7.29
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$2.73	$3.44
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.27	$1.26
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.92	$0.95
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.63	$0.49
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.7	$1.06
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.5	$1.53
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.41	$7.34
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.58	$3.62
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.04	$5.2
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.5	$0.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.48	$1.57
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.33	$1.61
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.34	$1.68
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.44	$0.43
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.47	$0.63
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.13	$0.34
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$0.71	$0.78
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$6.78	$4.52
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.2	$0.69
🚬 Cigarette pack	$1.84	$1.74
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$1.51	$4.28
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$2.23	$1.4
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.09	$0.67
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.61	$1.32
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$17.8	$18.5
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$3.21	$4.1
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$12	$9.07
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.75	$3.03
👖 Brand Jeans	$37.9	$59.1
👟 Brand Sneakers	$98.3	$84.3
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$92.9	$284
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1916	$2513

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Cairo

Distance	City	Cost of living
5.9 km or 3.6 mi	Giza	$323
8.1 km or 5 mi	Shubra El Kheima	$374
26 km or 16 mi	Helwan	$345
46 km or 28 mi	Benha	$335
60 km or 37 mi	Shibin El Kom	$323
62 km or 39 mi	Zagazig	$327
84 km or 52 mi	Tanta	$315
93 km or 58 mi	Faiyum	$339
101 km or 63 mi	El Mahalla El Kubra	$331
111 km or 69 mi	Beni Suef	$334
111 km or 69 mi	Mansoura	$306
115 km or 71 mi	Ismailia	$310
125 km or 78 mi	Suez	$303
133 km or 83 mi	Damanhur	$308
161 km or 100 mi	Kafr El Dawwar	$299
161 km or 100 mi	Damietta	$291
166 km or 103 mi	Port Said	$282
179 km or 111 mi	Alexandria	$310
224 km or 139 mi	Minya	$357
319 km or 198 mi	Asyut	$306
347 km or 216 mi	Gaza	$609
351 km or 218 mi	Ofakim	$1607
354 km or 220 mi	Netivot	$1713
360 km or 223 mi	Sderot	$1727
361 km or 224 mi	Dahab	$393
362 km or 225 mi	Eilat	$1536
365 km or 226 mi	Ashkelon	$1671
366 km or 227 mi	Beersheba	$1372
367 km or 228 mi	Rahat	$1632
368 km or 229 mi	Aqaba	$694
379 km or 235 mi	Ashdod	$1775
379 km or 235 mi	Kiryat Gat	$1754
380 km or 236 mi	Dimona	$1657
381 km or 236 mi	El Gouna	$294
383 km or 238 mi	Kiryat Malakhi	$1771
384 km or 239 mi	Sharm El Sheikh	$499
390 km or 242 mi	Yavne	$1815
391 km or 243 mi	Sohag	$350
396 km or 246 mi	Dura	$847
397 km or 246 mi	Rehovot	$1741

Cities near Kharkiv

Distance	City	Cost of living
72 km or 45 mi	Belgorod	$451
128 km or 80 mi	Poltava	$473
143 km or 89 mi	Sumy	$449
172 km or 107 mi	Kramatorsk	$533
183 km or 114 mi	Stary Oskol	$415
184 km or 115 mi	Starooskolsky	$447
193 km or 120 mi	Kursk	$457
195 km or 121 mi	Dnipro	$679
200 km or 125 mi	Sievierodonetsk	$506
203 km or 126 mi	Kamianske	$576
227 km or 141 mi	Kremenchuk	$421
230 km or 143 mi	Horlivka	$546
249 km or 155 mi	Donetsk	$456
250 km or 156 mi	Makiivka	$469
253 km or 157 mi	Zaporizhia	$405
275 km or 171 mi	Luhansk	$508
280 km or 174 mi	Voronezh	$419
306 km or 190 mi	Cherkasy	$432
314 km or 195 mi	Kryvyi Rih	$516
330 km or 205 mi	Oryol	$471
332 km or 206 mi	Kropyvnytskyi	$514
334 km or 207 mi	Mariupol	$491
358 km or 222 mi	Melitopol	$513
365 km or 227 mi	Taganrog	$465
373 km or 232 mi	Lipetsk	$401
384 km or 238 mi	Bryansk	$450
385 km or 239 mi	Chernihiv	$422
389 km or 242 mi	Shakhty	$534
400 km or 249 mi	Rostov-on-Don	$627
403 km or 250 mi	Novocherkassk	$572
409 km or 254 mi	Kyiv	$795
438 km or 272 mi	Bila Tserkva	$420
455 km or 283 mi	Gomel	$469
459 km or 285 mi	Mykolaiv	$375
460 km or 286 mi	Kherson	$416
471 km or 293 mi	Tambov	$508
477 km or 296 mi	Tula	$507
504 km or 313 mi	Kaluga	$490
514 km or 319 mi	Volgodonsk	$537
540 km or 336 mi	Zhytomyr	$529