Europe Expat Cost of Living Comparison
Overall the most expensive cities in Europe are mostly the Non-Euro countries.
What is most expensive city in Europe in 2020?
Zurich is Europe's most expensive city.
Where does this expat cost of living information for Europe come from?
Xpatulator.com has been created to calculate expatriate pay using online calculators and an extensive database of cost of living and hardship indexes, for 780 international locations. The database is updated quarterly. Subscribers use this information to ensure expatriate salary spending power is maintained when on an international assignment. Salary spending power is affected by cost of living, hardship and exchange rate differences between the home and host location.
What is the cost of living comparison for Europe?
A cost of living comparison involves using a Cost of Living Index (COLI) as a numerical way of comparing cost of living, either over time, or by comparing the cost of living in different geographical locations. When comparing the cost of living between different locations the difference in the cost of living is expressed as an index by dividing the cost of living in Location A by the cost of living in Location B. The cost of living index indicates the difference in the cost of living between the two locations. In the below graphic, the COLI for the most expensive cities in Europe is the result of dividing each locations cost of living by the cost of living in New York NY (USA) using all 13 basket groups. New York therefore has a COLI of 100 for global comparison purposes.
What are the top 10 most expensive cities to live in Europe?
The top 10 most expensive cities in Europe for an Expat as at July 2020 are as follows:
Cost of Living Review for Europe as at July 2020
For more, read a free cost of living review for the following locations in Europe as at July 2020:
- Aberdeen
- Adana
- Amsterdam
- Andorra la Vella
- Ankara
- Athens
- Baku
- Barcelona
- Belfast
- Belgrade
- Berlin
- Birmingham
- Bonn
- Bordeaux
- Bradford
- Bratislava
- Bristol
- Brussels
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Bursa
- Cardiff
- Chisinau
- Cologne
- Copenhagen
- Coventary
- Derby
- Douglas
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Frankfurt
- Geneva
- Genoa
- Gibraltar
- Glasgow
- Guildford
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Isle of Wight
- Istanbul
- Izmir
- Kaliningrad
- Kazan
- Kiev
- Kingston upon Hull
- Konya
- Krakow
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lille
- Lisbon
- Liverpool
- Ljubljana
- Lodz
- London
- Luton
- Luxembourg
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Manchester
- Marseille
- Mersin
- Milan
- Milton Keynes
- Minsk
- Monaco
- Moscow
- Munich
- Nantes
- Naples
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Nice
- Nicosia
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Novosibirsk
- Nuuk
- Omsk
- Oslo
- Palermo
- Paris
- Plymouth
- Podgorica
- Portsmouth
- Prague
- Preston
- Pristina
- Reading
- Reykjavik
- Riga
- Rome
- Rotterdam
- Saint Helier
- Samara
- San Marino
- Sarajevo
- Sheffield
- Skopje
- Sofia
- Southampton
- St Peter Port
- St. Petersburg
- Stockholm
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stuttgart
- Tallinn
- Tbilisi
- The Vatican City
- Thessaloniki
- Tirana
- Toulouse
- Turin
- Vaduz
- Valencia
- Velletta
- Vienna
- Vilnius
- Vladivostok
- Warsaw
- Wolverhampton
- Yekaterinburg
- Yerevan
- Zagreb
- Zurich
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