Cost of Living in Large Cities

Cities are ranked by agglomeration population size. Data is compiled from a mix of open sources and AI-assisted estimates as of July 2026.

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Rank	City	Country	Avg. 1-Bed Apartment Monthly Rent (USD)	Avg. Monthly Net Salary After Taxes (USD)	Rent as a % of Salary	Avg. Net Disposable Income After Rent (USD)
1	Tokyo	Japan	$950	$2,600	36.5%	$1,650
2	Delhi	India	$220	$580	37.9%	$360
3	Shanghai	China	$980	$1,450	67.6%	$470
4	Guangzhou	China	$650	$1,150	56.5%	$500
5	Mumbai	India	$520	$680	76.5%	$160
6	Beijing	China	$1,050	$1,550	67.7%	$500
7	Cairo	Egypt	$210	$240	87.5%	$30
8	Dhaka	Bangladesh	$140	$290	48.3%	$150
9	Mexico City	Mexico	$750	$850	88.2%	$100
10	São Paulo	Brazil	$520	$680	76.5%	$160
11	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	$850	$350	242.9%	$-500
12	Karachi	Pakistan	$130	$220	59.1%	$90
13	Jakarta	Indonesia	$410	$510	80.4%	$100
14	Manila	Philippines	$480	$520	92.3%	$40
15	Istanbul	Turkey	$550	$620	88.7%	$70
16	Kolkata	India	$160	$480	33.3%	$320
17	Lagos	Nigeria	$600	$320	187.5%	$-280
18	Seoul	South Korea	$850	$2,750	30.9%	$1,900
19	Shenzhen	China	$880	$1,500	58.7%	$620
20	New York City	United States	$3,850	$5,900	65.3%	$2,050
21	Bangalore (Bengaluru)	India	$310	$850	36.5%	$540
22	Tehran	Iran	$450	$400	112.5%	$-50
23	Chongqing	China	$420	$920	45.7%	$500
24	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	$410	$530	77.4%	$120
25	Chengdu	China	$460	$980	46.9%	$520
26	Tianjin	China	$480	$950	50.5%	$470
27	Moscow	Russia	$820	$1,100	74.5%	$280
28	Lahore	Pakistan	$140	$210	66.7%	$70
29	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	$480	$580	82.8%	$100
30	Bangkok	Thailand	$620	$750	82.7%	$130
31	Hyderabad	India	$240	$780	30.8%	$540
32	Los Angeles	United States	$2,550	$4,800	53.1%	$2,250
33	Wuhan	China	$450	$1,020	44.1%	$570
34	Ahmedabad	India	$180	$550	32.7%	$370
35	Xi'an	China	$380	$880	43.2%	$500
36	Chennai	India	$210	$620	33.9%	$410
37	Dongguan	China	$410	$950	43.2%	$540
38	Hangzhou	China	$620	$1,350	45.9%	$730
39	Foshan	China	$390	$920	42.4%	$530
40	London	United Kingdom	$2,400	$3,900	61.5%	$1,500
41	Surat	India	$150	$520	28.8%	$370
42	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	$750	$2,600	28.8%	$1,850
43	Luanda	Angola	$1,400	$750	186.7%	$-650
44	Baghdad	Iraq	$400	$650	61.5%	$250
45	Hanoi	Vietnam	$420	$520	80.8%	$100
46	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	$320	$380	84.2%	$60
47	Bogotá	Colombia	$360	$450	80.0%	$90
48	Shenyang	China	$330	$820	40.2%	$490
49	Nanjing	China	$520	$1,150	45.2%	$630
50	Zhengzhou	China	$340	$850	40.0%	$510
51	Santiago	Chile	$480	$720	66.7%	$240
52	Suzhou	China	$580	$1,250	46.4%	$670
53	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	$450	$420	107.1%	$-30
54	Johannesburg	South Africa	$420	$1,400	30.0%	$980
55	Qingdao	China	$420	$980	42.9%	$560
56	Yangon	Myanmar	$350	$280	125.0%	$-70
57	Alexandria	Egypt	$160	$210	76.2%	$50
58	Kabul	Afghanistan	$150	$200	75.0%	$50
59	Casablanca	Morocco	$420	$580	72.4%	$160
60	Ankara	Turkey	$410	$580	70.7%	$170
61	Jinan	China	$360	$890	40.4%	$530
62	Changsha	China	$380	$950	40.0%	$570
63	Harbin	China	$320	$780	41.0%	$460
64	Busan	South Korea	$520	$2,100	24.8%	$1,580
65	Kunming	China	$350	$840	41.7%	$490
66	Dalian	China	$410	$920	44.6%	$510
67	Hefei	China	$380	$910	41.8%	$530
68	Nairobi	Kenya	$320	$450	71.1%	$130
69	Saint Petersburg	Russia	$580	$850	68.2%	$270
70	Melbourne	Australia	$1,650	$3,800	43.4%	$2,150
71	Shijiazhuang	China	$310	$800	38.8%	$490
72	Monterrey	Mexico	$650	$1,050	61.9%	$400
73	Sydney	Australia	$1,950	$4,200	46.4%	$2,250
74	Changchun	China	$310	$790	39.2%	$480
75	Xiamen	China	$580	$1,100	52.7%	$520
76	Cape Town	South Africa	$580	$1,300	44.6%	$720
77	Nanning	China	$330	$810	40.7%	$480
78	Accra	Ghana	$450	$350	128.6%	$-100
79	Ürümqi	China	$320	$820	39.0%	$500
80	Chittagong	Bangladesh	$110	$250	44.0%	$140
81	Taiyuan	China	$300	$780	38.5%	$480
82	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	$550	$2,100	26.2%	$1,550
83	Kano	Nigeria	$220	$200	110.0%	$-20
84	Fuzhou	China	$450	$1,020	44.1%	$570
85	Toronto	Canada	$1,850	$3,400	54.4%	$1,550
86	Medellín	Colombia	$410	$480	85.4%	$70
87	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	$350	$520	67.3%	$170
88	Montreal	Canada	$1,250	$3,100	40.3%	$1,850
89	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	$2,100	$3,800	55.3%	$1,700
90	Kuwait City	Kuwait	$950	$2,400	39.6%	$1,450
91	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	$450	$510	88.2%	$60
92	Ibadan	Nigeria	$180	$190	94.7%	$10
93	Osaka	Japan	$680	$2,200	30.9%	$1,520
94	Guadalajara	Mexico	$550	$820	67.1%	$270
95	Pune	India	$250	$750	33.3%	$500
96	Berlin	Germany	$1,250	$3,100	40.3%	$1,850
97	Madrid	Spain	$1,100	$2,200	50.0%	$1,100
98	Algiers	Algeria	$220	$310	71.0%	$90
99	Rome	Italy	$1,050	$1,850	56.8%	$800
100	Buenos Aires	Argentina	$380	$450	84.4%	$70
101	Nanchang	China	$310	$780	39.7%	$470
102	Pyongyang	North Korea	$50	$100	50.0%	$50
103	Yokohama	Japan	$750	$2,200	34.1%	$1,450
104	Faisalabad	Pakistan	$120	$200	60.0%	$80
105	Thrissur	India	$150	$350	42.9%	$200
106	Sapporo	Japan	$500	$1,800	27.8%	$1,300
107	Zaozhuang	China	$280	$700	40.0%	$420
108	Baku	Azerbaijan	$400	$450	88.9%	$50
109	Hamburg	Germany	$1,000	$2,800	35.7%	$1,800
110	Minsk	Belarus	$350	$550	63.6%	$200
111	Guiyang	China	$300	$750	40.0%	$450
112	Kediri	Indonesia	$200	$300	66.7%	$100
113	Tegal	Indonesia	$180	$280	64.3%	$100
114	Nagpur	India	$180	$450	40.0%	$270
115	Lucknow	India	$170	$420	40.5%	$250
116	Curitiba	Brazil	$320	$480	66.7%	$160
117	Lanzhou	China	$290	$720	40.3%	$430
118	Quito	Ecuador	$350	$500	70.0%	$150
119	Warsaw	Poland	$850	$1,400	60.7%	$550
120	Kampong Cham	Cambodia	$150	$250	60.0%	$100
121	Brisbane	Australia	$1,600	$3,500	45.7%	$1,900
122	Belgrade	Serbia	$550	$850	64.7%	$300
123	Linyi	China	$280	$710	39.4%	$430
124	Barranquilla	Colombia	$300	$380	78.9%	$80
125	Vienna	Austria	$1,100	$2,600	42.3%	$1,500
126	Tangshan	China	$300	$750	40.0%	$450
127	Philadelphia	United States	$1,600	$4,100	39.0%	$2,500
128	Tianmen	China	$260	$680	38.2%	$420
129	Tripoli	Libya	$250	$300	83.3%	$50
130	Xinghua	China	$270	$690	39.1%	$420
131	Kharkiv	Ukraine	$280	$450	62.2%	$170
132	Kobe	Japan	$650	$2,000	32.5%	$1,350
133	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	$450	$1,200	37.5%	$750
134	Kyoto	Japan	$600	$1,900	31.6%	$1,300
135	Jaipur	India	$160	$400	40.0%	$240
136	Barcelona	Spain	$1,200	$2,000	60.0%	$800
137	Anshan	China	$250	$650	38.5%	$400
138	Suizhou	China	$260	$670	38.8%	$410
139	Qiqihaer	China	$240	$630	38.1%	$390
140	Palembang	Indonesia	$210	$320	65.6%	$110
141	Taian	China	$270	$690	39.1%	$420
142	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	$130	$210	61.9%	$80
143	Novosibirsk	Russia	$400	$650	61.5%	$250
144	Tengzhou	China	$250	$660	37.9%	$410
145	Zhanjiang	China	$260	$680	38.2%	$420
146	Dengzhou	China	$250	$650	38.5%	$400
147	Fushun	China	$240	$640	37.5%	$400
148	Pingxiang	China	$250	$660	37.9%	$410
149	Recife	Brazil	$300	$450	66.7%	$150
150	Guikong	China	$250	$650	38.5%	$400
151	Xiantao	China	$260	$670	38.8%	$410
152	Yancheng	China	$280	$700	40.0%	$420
153	Perth	Australia	$1,500	$3,600	41.7%	$2,100
154	Nizhny Novgorod	Russia	$380	$620	61.3%	$240
155	Yulin	China	$270	$690	39.1%	$420
156	Phoenix	United States	$1,650	$4,200	39.3%	$2,550
157	Porto Alegre	Brazil	$320	$470	68.1%	$150
158	Jilin	China	$250	$640	39.1%	$390
159	Xintai	China	$260	$660	39.4%	$400
160	Milan	Italy	$1,300	$2,000	65.0%	$700
161	Montevideo	Uruguay	$550	$850	64.7%	$300
162	Xiaogan	China	$260	$670	38.8%	$410
163	Pingdu	China	$250	$660	37.9%	$410
164	Chaozhou	China	$270	$680	39.7%	$410
165	Neijiang	China	$250	$650	38.5%	$400
166	Manaus	Brazil	$280	$430	65.1%	$150
167	Datong	China	$260	$670	38.8%	$410
168	Daejeon	South Korea	$450	$2,200	20.5%	$1,750
169	Omdurman	Sudan	$150	$200	75.0%	$50
170	Lusaka	Zambia	$350	$400	87.5%	$50
171	Tbilisi	Georgia	$750	$600	125.0%	$-150
172	Yekaterinburg	Russia	$450	$700	64.3%	$250
173	Isfahan	Iran	$350	$380	92.1%	$30
174	Suining	China	$250	$660	37.9%	$410
175	Gwangju	South Korea	$420	$2,100	20.0%	$1,680
176	Nezahualcóyotl	Mexico	$400	$600	66.7%	$200
177	Yerevan	Armenia	$850	$650	130.8%	$-200
178	Kawasaki	Japan	$700	$2,100	33.3%	$1,400
179	Baotou	China	$280	$700	40.0%	$420
180	Huainan	China	$260	$670	38.8%	$410
181	Zhongshan	China	$320	$780	41.0%	$460
182	Havana	Cuba	$100	$40	250.0%	$-60
183	Haiphong	Vietnam	$300	$450	66.7%	$150
184	Multan	Pakistan	$110	$190	57.9%	$80
185	Medan	Indonesia	$220	$330	66.7%	$110
186	Maracaibo	Venezuela	$150	$200	75.0%	$50
187	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	$140	$190	73.7%	$50
188	Caracas	Venezuela	$250	$250	100.0%	$0
189	Maiduguri	Nigeria	$150	$170	88.2%	$20
190	Port Harcourt	Nigeria	$200	$250	80.0%	$50
191	Luoyang	China	$280	$700	40.0%	$420
192	Aleppo	Syria	$100	$150	66.7%	$50
193	Tabriz	Iran	$300	$350	85.7%	$50
194	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	$650	$1,200	54.2%	$550
195	Budapest	Hungary	$550	$1,100	50.0%	$550
196	Bhopal	India	$150	$420	35.7%	$270
197	Adana	Turkey	$350	$480	72.9%	$130
198	Pimpri-Chinchwad	India	$200	$550	36.4%	$350
199	Damascus	Syria	$150	$200	75.0%	$50
200	Sanaa	Yemen	$150	$200	75.0%	$50