Cheapest Cities in Europe — Cost of Living Index (2026)

152 cities in Europe across 43 countries, ranked from cheapest to most expensive. New York City is the baseline at 100 — a city at 40 is roughly 60% cheaper than New York for the same basket of rent, food, transport, and utilities.

Cities ranked

152

Countries

Cheapest

Dushanbe · 27.3

Most expensive

Zürich · 184.3

Cheapest cities (one per country)

1.Dushanbe, Tajikistan27.3
2.Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan28.8
3.Tashkent, Uzbekistan29.6
4.Perm, Russia30.7
5.Baku, Azerbaijan33.6
6.Minsk, Belarus34
7.Eskişehir, Turkey36
8.Tbilisi, Georgia36.7
9.Almaty, Kazakhstan37.3
10.Târgu Mureş, Romania37.6
11.Chisinau, Moldova37.7
12.Burgas, Bulgaria40.2

Most expensive cities

1.Zürich, Switzerland184.3
2.Geneva, Switzerland184.3
3.Århus, Denmark142.8
4.Cork, Ireland141.2
5.Trondheim, Norway134.1
6.Bergen, Norway134.1
7.Tampere, Finland127.2
8.Malmö, Sweden123
9.The Hague, Netherlands121
10.Rotterdam, Netherlands121
11.Linz, Austria119.7
12.Graz, Austria119.7

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Full ranking

#	City	Country	Index	vs. New York	1BR rent
1	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	27.3	73% cheaper	$572
2	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	28.8	71% cheaper	$541
3	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	29.6	70% cheaper	$610
4	Perm	Russia	30.7	69% cheaper	$551
5	Rostov-na-Donu	Russia	32.4	68% cheaper	$432
6	Rostov-on-Don	Russia	32.4	68% cheaper	$432
7	Chelyabinsk	Russia	32.6	67% cheaper	$397
8	Omsk	Russia	32.6	67% cheaper	$453
9	Voronezh	Russia	33.2	67% cheaper	$375
10	Novosibirsk	Russia	33.4	67% cheaper	$480
11	Nizhny Novgorod	Russia	33.5	67% cheaper	$520
12	Baku	Azerbaijan	33.6	66% cheaper	$528
13	Krasnodar	Russia	33.8	66% cheaper	$496
14	Kazan	Russia	34	66% cheaper	$577
15	Minsk	Belarus	34	66% cheaper	$582
16	Ufa	Russia	34	66% cheaper	$401
17	Krasnoyarsk	Russia	34.1	66% cheaper	$377
18	Eskişehir	Turkey	36	64% cheaper	$380
19	Kaliningrad	Russia	36.4	64% cheaper	$458
20	Yekaterinburg	Russia	36.4	64% cheaper	$696
21	Tyumen	Russia	36.5	64% cheaper	$600
22	Tbilisi	Georgia	36.7	63% cheaper	$450
23	Saint Petersburg	Russia	37.2	63% cheaper	$807
24	Almaty	Kazakhstan	37.3	63% cheaper	$760
25	Mersin	Turkey	37.5	63% cheaper	$448
26	Târgu Mureş	Romania	37.6	62% cheaper	$446
27	Chisinau	Moldova	37.7	62% cheaper	$678
28	Galaţi	Romania	38.5	62% cheaper	$472
29	Craiova	Romania	38.6	61% cheaper	$496
30	Burgas	Bulgaria	40.2	60% cheaper	$556
31	Iaşi	Romania	40.6	59% cheaper	$518
32	Timişoara	Romania	40.8	59% cheaper	$552
33	Yerevan	Armenia	41.8	58% cheaper	$768
34	Constanţa	Romania	43	57% cheaper	$629
35	Katowice	Poland	43.4	57% cheaper	$691
36	Braşov	Romania	43.6	56% cheaper	$723
37	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.6	56% cheaper	$490
38	Szczecin	Poland	44.2	56% cheaper	$667
39	Bucharest	Romania	45.6	54% cheaper	$662
40	Istanbul	Turkey	46.8	53% cheaper	$1,070
41	İzmir	Turkey	46.8	53% cheaper	$648
42	Gdynia	Poland	48.6	51% cheaper	$835
43	Granada	Spain	48.8	51% cheaper	$869
44	Belgrade	Serbia	49.2	51% cheaper	$904
45	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Spain	49.5	51% cheaper	$1,006
46	Skopje	North Macedonia	49.6	50% cheaper	$430
47	Sofia	Bulgaria	51.8	48% cheaper	$775
48	Moscow	Russia	51.9	48% cheaper	$1,359
49	Warsaw	Poland	53.3	47% cheaper	$1,190
50	Vilnius	Lithuania	53.5	47% cheaper	$861
51	Oviedo	Spain	54	46% cheaper	$827
52	Budapest	Hungary	54.7	45% cheaper	$918
53	Palermo	Italy	55.2	45% cheaper	$762
54	Bari	Italy	55.8	44% cheaper	$944
55	Zagreb	Croatia	55.8	44% cheaper	$888
56	Plovdiv	Bulgaria	56.9	43% cheaper	$514
57	Varna	Bulgaria	56.9	43% cheaper	$566
58	Riga	Latvia	57.1	43% cheaper	$605
59	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	57.4	43% cheaper	$715
60	Podgorica	Montenegro	57.9	42% cheaper	$672
61	Palma	Spain	58.3	42% cheaper	$1,399
62	Athens	Greece	59.1	41% cheaper	$711
63	Madrid	Spain	59.3	41% cheaper	$1,490
64	Banja Luka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	59.7	40% cheaper	$485
65	Rome	Italy	60.4	40% cheaper	$1,355
66	Trieste	Italy	60.8	39% cheaper	$881
67	Niš	Serbia	61.4	39% cheaper	$408
68	Novi Sad	Serbia	61.4	39% cheaper	$548
69	Tirana	Albania	62.9	37% cheaper	$840
70	Sheffield	United Kingdom	63.5	37% cheaper	$1,099
71	Coventry	United Kingdom	63.8	36% cheaper	$1,497
72	Padova	Italy	63.8	36% cheaper	$1,049
73	Montpellier	France	64.8	35% cheaper	$917
74	Cardiff	United Kingdom	65	35% cheaper	$1,291
75	Chemnitz	Germany	65	35% cheaper	$461
76	Nottingham	United Kingdom	65.3	35% cheaper	$1,161
77	Verona	Italy	66.3	34% cheaper	$1,010
78	Leeds	United Kingdom	66.5	34% cheaper	$1,310
79	Oulu	Finland	66.5	34% cheaper	$843
80	Leipzig	Germany	66.7	33% cheaper	$807
81	Newcastle upon Tyne	United Kingdom	66.8	33% cheaper	$1,255
82	Milton Keynes	United Kingdom	67.1	33% cheaper	$1,647
83	Mannheim	Germany	67.5	33% cheaper	$1,011
84	Hannover	Germany	67.6	32% cheaper	$940
85	Bremen	Germany	68.3	32% cheaper	$901
86	Debrecen	Hungary	68.3	32% cheaper	$583
87	Turku	Finland	68.4	32% cheaper	$830
88	Dresden	Germany	68.5	32% cheaper	$846
89	Freiburg	Germany	68.8	31% cheaper	$1,138
90	Groningen	Netherlands	69.1	31% cheaper	$1,285
91	Kiel	Germany	69.5	31% cheaper	$737
92	Gdańsk	Poland	70.2	30% cheaper	$956
93	Kraków	Poland	70.2	30% cheaper	$944
94	Poznań	Poland	70.2	30% cheaper	$891
95	Wrocław	Poland	70.2	30% cheaper	$905
96	Mainz	Germany	70.7	29% cheaper	$960
97	Reading	United Kingdom	70.8	29% cheaper	$1,696
98	Southampton	United Kingdom	70.8	29% cheaper	$1,526
99	Brescia	Italy	71.2	29% cheaper	$971
100	Gent	Belgium	71.3	29% cheaper	$1,139
101	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	71.9	28% cheaper	$1,620
102	Strasbourg	France	72.1	28% cheaper	$956
103	Karlsruhe	Germany	72.2	28% cheaper	$1,004
104	Wiesbaden	Germany	72.4	28% cheaper	$990
105	Brighton	United Kingdom	73.5	27% cheaper	$1,904
106	Brussels	Belgium	73.9	26% cheaper	$1,326
107	Vienna	Austria	75	25% cheaper	$1,303
108	Nice	France	75.3	25% cheaper	$1,170
109	Utrecht	Netherlands	76.2	24% cheaper	$1,986
110	Dublin	Ireland	76.7	23% cheaper	$2,452
111	Helsinki	Finland	76.7	23% cheaper	$1,271
112	Kaunas	Lithuania	78.2	22% cheaper	$648
113	Paris	France	78.4	22% cheaper	$1,596
114	Stockholm	Sweden	80.1	20% cheaper	$1,816
115	Bratislava	Slovakia	81.1	19% cheaper	$1,026
116	Košice	Slovakia	81.1	19% cheaper	$954
117	Thessaloníki	Greece	83	17% cheaper	$623
118	Lisbon	Portugal	85	15% cheaper	$1,546
119	Porto	Portugal	85	15% cheaper	$1,272
120	Copenhagen	Denmark	88	12% cheaper	$2,065
121	London	United Kingdom	89.2	11% cheaper	$2,992
122	Sevilla	Spain	90.7	9% cheaper	$954
123	Valencia	Spain	90.7	9% cheaper	$1,344
124	Ljubljana	Slovenia	91	9% cheaper	$1,103
125	Nicosia	Cyprus	95.1	5% cheaper	$792
126	Tallinn	Estonia	96.5	4% cheaper	$808
127	Oslo	Norway	97.1	3% cheaper	$1,927
128	Milan	Italy	98.1	2% cheaper	$1,737
129	Naples	Italy	98.1	2% cheaper	$1,180
130	Turin	Italy	98.1	2% cheaper	$857
131	Lille	France	107.9	8% pricier	$928
132	Lyon	France	107.9	8% pricier	$960
133	Marseille	France	107.9	8% pricier	$876
134	Toulouse	France	107.9	8% pricier	$901
135	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	109.1	9% pricier	$1,366
136	Hamburg	Germany	109.1	9% pricier	$1,356
137	Köln	Germany	109.1	9% pricier	$1,216
138	Munich	Germany	109.1	9% pricier	$1,641
139	Stuttgart	Germany	109.1	9% pricier	$1,319
140	Antwerpen	Belgium	118.7	19% pricier	$1,014
141	Graz	Austria	119.7	20% pricier	$765
142	Linz	Austria	119.7	20% pricier	$843
143	Rotterdam	Netherlands	121	21% pricier	$1,801
144	The Hague	Netherlands	121	21% pricier	$1,767
145	Malmö	Sweden	123	23% pricier	$1,053
146	Tampere	Finland	127.2	27% pricier	$989
147	Bergen	Norway	134.1	34% pricier	$1,428
148	Trondheim	Norway	134.1	34% pricier	$1,489
149	Cork	Ireland	141.2	41% pricier	$1,874
150	Århus	Denmark	142.8	43% pricier	$1,314
151	Geneva	Switzerland	184.3	84% pricier	$2,894
152	Zürich	Switzerland	184.3	84% pricier	$2,926

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How this works

Every city is scored on a single index where New York City = 100. The score blends rent, groceries, restaurants, transport, and utilities into one comparable number, so a city at 50 costs about half what New York does for the same lifestyle.

We rank city-level data only — never a country average painted across its cities. A city is included only when it has genuine local price coverage (real rent and meal prices), which keeps the ranking credible at both ends. Countries under active-conflict travel advisories are excluded.

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