Mexico City vs Yekaterinburg - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 02, 2025

	Mexico City	Yekaterinburg
🚶 Cost of living one person	$1160	$765
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$2923	$1946
🏠 One person rent	$603	$377
🏘️ Family rent	$1214	$769
🍽️ Food expenses	$374	$256
🚐 Transport expenses	$78.2	$59.7
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$709	$696
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	8 km	17 km
🎓 Higher education	92	46
😀 Quality of life	67	60
🏙️ Population	9.21M	1.47M

The cost of living in Mexico City is 52% more expensive than in Yekaterinburg. Cities ranked 4604th and 6596th ($1160 vs $765) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 7th and 14th in Mexico and Russia, respectively. Check Mexico vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.6 months in Mexico City compared to 0.9 months in Yekaterinburg. Mexico City ranked 1st best city to live in Mexico vs Yekaterinburg ranked 8th in Russia, while ranked 3470th and 5209th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Mexico City vs Yekaterinburg

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	Mexico City	Yekaterinburg
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$11.1	$8
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$46.5	$42.7
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$8.02	$4.65
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$2.84	$1.72
☕ Cappuccino	$3.69	$2.21
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.23	$0.92
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$846	$427
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$475	$273
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$1732	$923
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$998	$595
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$27.8	$65.6
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$42.3	$100
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$26.7	$7.81
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	11.34%	14.85%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2952	$2157
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2197	$1318
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.29	$0.38
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$19.9	$28.6
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$3.96	$5.03
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$1.21	$0.64
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$1.45	$0.89
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$2.11	$0.53
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.59	$1.2
🥚 Eggs, x12	$2.43	$1.52
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$9.12	$9.51
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.41	$4.06
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$10.8	$8.36
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$2.59	$1.59
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.54	$1.49
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.85	$1.93
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.87	$2.43
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.78	$0.53
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.97	$0.6
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.61	$0.38
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.8	$1.83
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$12.4	$5.75
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.51	$0.83
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.89	$2.26
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$5.17	$3.6
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.39	$3.34
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$1.79	$0.71
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$1.96	$1.36
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$56.6	$30
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4.97	$4.59
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$45	$15.9
💇 Haircut, simple	$16.7	$4.83
👖 Brand Jeans	$53.2	$61.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$94.8	$84.8
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$401	$267
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$9034	$4946

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Cities near Mexico City

Distance	City	Cost of living
11 km or 7.1 mi	Naucalpan	$800
14 km or 8.7 mi	Tlalnepantla	$741
17 km or 10 mi	Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl	$814
19 km or 12 mi	Ciudad Lopez Mateos	$849
22 km or 14 mi	Ecatepec de Morelos	$704
25 km or 16 mi	Tultitlan de Mariano Escobedo	$770
25 km or 16 mi	Chicoloapan de Juarez	$828
26 km or 16 mi	Cuautitlan Izcalli	$742
29 km or 18 mi	Texcoco de Mora	$787
30 km or 19 mi	Tultepec	$747
31 km or 19 mi	Chalco de Diaz Covarrubias	$820
42 km or 26 mi	Zumpango	$761
55 km or 34 mi	Toluca	$696
56 km or 35 mi	Cuernavaca	$745
60 km or 37 mi	Jiutepec	$752
70 km or 44 mi	Cuautla	$858
89 km or 55 mi	Pachuca	$632
93 km or 58 mi	Atlixco	$825
105 km or 65 mi	San Jose Villa de Allende	$760
106 km or 66 mi	Puebla	$981
107 km or 67 mi	Taxco	$788
126 km or 79 mi	Iguala	$821
140 km or 87 mi	San Juan del Rio	$826
184 km or 114 mi	Queretaro	$983
192 km or 119 mi	Teziutlan	$770
211 km or 131 mi	Chilpancingo	$608
213 km or 132 mi	Tehuacan	$485
214 km or 133 mi	Celaya	$638
216 km or 134 mi	Poza Rica	$635
217 km or 135 mi	Morelia	$717
224 km or 139 mi	Cortazar	$693
224 km or 139 mi	Orizaba	$724
225 km or 140 mi	Yuriria	$725
229 km or 143 mi	Coatepec	$700
234 km or 145 mi	Xalapa	$574
236 km or 146 mi	San Miguel de Allende	$1139
239 km or 149 mi	Cordoba	$759
250 km or 155 mi	Salamanca	$634
269 km or 167 mi	Irapuato	$667
281 km or 174 mi	Zacapu	$804

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