Cheapest Cities to Live Abroad in 2026
Monthly costs include rent (1BR center), groceries, utilities, transport, and healthcare. All prices in USD.
Under $2,000/month232 cities
Rajkot, India
$660
per month
Vadodara, India
$680
per month
Bhopal, India
$700
per month
Patna, India
$700
per month
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
$710
per month
Guwahati, India
$720
per month
Mangalore, India
$720
per month
Indore, India
$735
per month
Malacca, Malaysia
$742
per month
Bhubaneswar, India
$755
per month
Lucknow, India
$755
per month
Surat, India
$755
per month
Da Nang, Vietnam
$779
per month
Coimbatore, India
$785
per month
Marrakech, Morocco
$785
per month
Kochi, India
$795
per month
Sousse, Tunisia
$795
per month
Jaipur, India
$830
per month
Thiruvananthapuram, India
$830
per month
Córdoba, Argentina
$845
per month
Tomsk, Russia
$845
per month
Chiang Mai, Thailand
$849
per month
Chandigarh, India
$870
per month
Damascus, Syria
$870
per month
Eskişehir, Turkey
$870
per month
Navi Mumbai, India
$870
per month
Thane, India
$870
per month
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
$880
per month
Chelyabinsk, Russia
$885
per month
Perm, Russia
$885
per month
Davao, Philippines
$895
per month
Galați, Romania
$895
per month
Voronezh, Russia
$900
per month
Krabi, Thailand
$904
per month
Ahmedabad, India
$910
per month
Chittagong, Bangladesh
$920
per month
Niš, Serbia
$920
per month
Samara, Russia
$920
per month
Pune, India
$930
per month
Hanoi, Vietnam
$943
per month
Agadir, Morocco
$945
per month
Cuenca, Ecuador
$945
per month
Kuching, Malaysia
$945
per month
Mersin, Turkey
$945
per month
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
$957
per month
Târgu Mureș, Romania
$970
per month
Bursa, Turkey
$975
per month
Chennai, India
$980
per month
Bandung, Indonesia
$995
per month
Craiova, Romania
$995
per month
Fortaleza, Brazil
$995
per month
Lviv, Ukraine
$995
per month
Tangier, Morocco
$995
per month
João Pessoa, Brazil
$1,000
per month
Ufa, Russia
$1,000
per month
Lahore, Pakistan
$1,005
per month
Ko Samui, Thailand
$1,015
per month
Aguascalientes, Mexico
$1,020
per month
Barranquilla, Colombia
$1,020
per month
Bogotá, Colombia
$1,020
per month
Burgas, Bulgaria
$1,020
per month
Oradea, Romania
$1,020
per month
Penang, Malaysia
$1,020
per month
Pristina, Kosovo (Disputed Territory)
$1,020
per month
Sibiu, Romania
$1,020
per month
Tyumen, Russia
$1,020
per month
Vlorë, Albania
$1,020
per month
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
$1,029
per month
Cali, Colombia
$1,035
per month
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
$1,037
per month
Giza, Egypt
$1,045
per month
Pécs, Hungary
$1,045
per month
Surabaya, Indonesia
$1,045
per month
Patras, Greece
$1,051
per month
Changsha, China
$1,070
per month
Kaliningrad, Russia
$1,070
per month
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
$1,070
per month
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
$1,070
per month
Salvador, Brazil
$1,070
per month
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
$1,070
per month
Timișoara, Romania
$1,070
per month
Varna, Bulgaria
$1,070
per month
Wroclaw, Poland
$1,070
per month
Florianópolis, Brazil
$1,071
per month
Pattaya, Thailand
$1,086
per month
Ajman, UAE
$1,095
per month
Batumi, Georgia
$1,095
per month
Brașov, Romania
$1,095
per month
Constanța, Romania
$1,095
per month
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
$1,095
per month
Szeged, Hungary
$1,095
per month
Thessaloniki, Greece
$1,100
per month
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
$1,120
per month
Curitiba, Brazil
$1,120
per month
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
$1,120
per month
Hua Hin, Thailand
$1,120
per month
Podgorica, Montenegro
$1,120
per month
Poznan, Poland
$1,120
per month
Xi'an, China
$1,120
per month
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
$1,130
per month
Guayaquil, Ecuador
$1,145
per month
Hyderabad, India
$1,145
per month
Islamabad, Pakistan
$1,145
per month
Ostrava, Czech Republic
$1,145
per month
Asunción, Paraguay
$1,170
per month
Debrecen, Hungary
$1,170
per month
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
$1,170
per month
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
$1,170
per month
Kraków, Poland
$1,185
per month
Tbilisi, Georgia
$1,190
per month
Bangalore, India
$1,195
per month
Erbil, Iraq
$1,195
per month
Antalya, Turkey
$1,220
per month
Chongqing, China
$1,220
per month
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
$1,220
per month
Rabat, Morocco
$1,220
per month
Vladivostok, Russia
$1,220
per month
Bali (Canggu), Indonesia
$1,222
per month
Sapporo, Japan
$1,226
per month
Bucharest, Romania
$1,240
per month
Ankara, Turkey
$1,245
per month
Chengdu, China
$1,245
per month
Izmir, Turkey
$1,245
per month
Kaunas, Lithuania
$1,245
per month
Kigali, Rwanda
$1,245
per month
Mérida, Mexico
$1,245
per month
Muscat, Oman
$1,245
per month
Querétaro, Mexico
$1,245
per month
Quezon City, Philippines
$1,245
per month
Wuhan, China
$1,245
per month
Medellin, Colombia
$1,267
per month
Phuket, Thailand
$1,270
per month
Qingdao, China
$1,270
per month
Szczecin, Poland
$1,270
per month
Fukuoka, Japan
$1,275
per month
Guadalajara, Mexico
$1,278
per month
Palermo, Italy
$1,281
per month
Katowice, Poland
$1,295
per month
Taichung, Taiwan
$1,295
per month
Cancún, Mexico
$1,320
per month
Zaragoza, Spain
$1,322
per month
Buenos Aires, Argentina
$1,337
per month
Athens, Greece
$1,343
per month
Rijeka, Croatia
$1,345
per month
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
$1,346
per month
São Paulo, Brazil
$1,360
per month
Tartu, Estonia
$1,363
per month
Taipei, Taiwan
$1,368
per month
Gdynia, Poland
$1,370
per month
Cartagena, Colombia
$1,387
per month
Lima, Peru
$1,395
per month
Olomouc, Czech Republic
$1,395
per month
Plzeň, Czech Republic
$1,395
per month
Bratislava, Slovakia
$1,397
per month
Bangkok, Thailand
$1,410
per month
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
$1,420
per month
Algiers, Algeria
$1,420
per month
Braga, Portugal
$1,420
per month
Granada, Spain
$1,420
per month
Nanjing, China
$1,420
per month
Torrevieja, Spain
$1,420
per month
Zagreb, Croatia
$1,420
per month
Alicante, Spain
$1,421
per month
Cadiz, Spain
$1,442
per month
Aveiro, Portugal
$1,444
per month
Coimbra, Portugal
$1,445
per month
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
$1,445
per month
Montevideo, Uruguay
$1,452
per month
Kyoto, Japan
$1,462
per month
Budapest, Hungary
$1,489
per month
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
$1,495
per month
Kampala, Uganda
$1,495
per month
San Salvador, El Salvador
$1,495
per month
Suzhou, China
$1,495
per month
Trieste, Italy
$1,495
per month
Turin, Italy
$1,495
per month
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
$1,495
per month
Villach, Austria
$1,495
per month
Vilnius, Lithuania
$1,495
per month
Cape Town, South Africa
$1,513
per month
Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
$1,520
per month
Brno, Czech Republic
$1,520
per month
Tallinn, Estonia
$1,520
per month
Pamplona, Spain
$1,533
per month
Faro, Portugal
$1,534
per month
Guangzhou, China
$1,545
per month
Hangzhou, China
$1,545
per month
Harare, Zimbabwe
$1,545
per month
Pisa, Italy
$1,558
per month
Tampere, Finland
$1,564
per month
Graz, Austria
$1,570
per month
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
$1,570
per month
Cagliari, Italy
$1,574
per month
Mexico City, Mexico
$1,592
per month
Osaka, Japan
$1,595
per month
Genoa, Italy
$1,603
per month
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
$1,620
per month
Reykjavik, Iceland
$1,620
per month
Wichita, United States
$1,620
per month
Mauritius, Mauritius
$1,629
per month
Makati, Philippines
$1,645
per month
Manama, Bahrain
$1,645
per month
Naples, Italy
$1,651
per month
Porto, Portugal
$1,668
per month
Valencia, Spain
$1,670
per month
Verona, Italy
$1,685
per month
Seville, Spain
$1,695
per month
Málaga, Spain
$1,707
per month
Ghent, Belgium
$1,720
per month
Ljubljana, Slovenia
$1,741
per month
Split, Croatia
$1,744
per month
Panama City, Panama
$1,770
per month
Quebec City, Canada
$1,770
per month
Winnipeg, Canada
$1,772
per month
Bilbao, Spain
$1,786
per month
Baghdad, Iraq
$1,795
per month
Liverpool, United Kingdom
$1,795
per month
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
$1,795
per month
Shenzhen, China
$1,795
per month
Funchal, Portugal
$1,820
per month
Bologna, Italy
$1,845
per month
Tulsa, United States
$1,845
per month
Warsaw, Poland
$1,845
per month
Prague, Czech Republic
$1,882
per month
Florence, Italy
$1,897
per month
Birmingham, United Kingdom
$1,923
per month
Madrid, Spain
$1,943
per month
Christchurch, New Zealand
$1,945
per month
Glasgow, United Kingdom
$1,945
per month
Gothenburg, Sweden
$1,945
per month
Seoul, South Korea
$1,945
per month
Istanbul, Turkey
$1,970
per month
$2,000 — $3,000/month83 cities
Venice, Italy
$2,001
per month
Dubrovnik, Croatia
$2,008
per month
Palma, Spain
$2,013
per month
Louisville, United States
$2,020
per month
Adelaide, Australia
$2,045
per month
Huntsville, United States
$2,045
per month
Knoxville, United States
$2,045
per month
Omaha, United States
$2,045
per month
Banff, Canada
$2,053
per month
Columbia, United States
$2,095
per month
Düsseldorf, Germany
$2,095
per month
Helsinki, Finland
$2,095
per month
Vienna, Austria
$2,095
per month
Lisbon, Portugal
$2,096
per month
Barcelona, Spain
$2,101
per month
Cairns, Australia
$2,110
per month
San Antonio, United States
$2,145
per month
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
$2,152
per month
Cascais, Portugal
$2,166
per month
Boise, United States
$2,170
per month
Cincinnati, United States
$2,170
per month
Columbus, United States
$2,170
per month
Jacksonville, United States
$2,170
per month
Rochester, United States
$2,170
per month
San Sebastian, Spain
$2,170
per month
Rome, Italy
$2,200
per month
Hobart, Australia
$2,229
per month
Calgary, Canada
$2,235
per month
Groningen, Netherlands
$2,245
per month
Stuttgart, Germany
$2,245
per month
Houston, United States
$2,266
per month
Berlin, Germany
$2,286
per month
Beijing, China
$2,295
per month
Brisbane, Australia
$2,295
per month
Hamburg, Germany
$2,295
per month
Galway, Ireland
$2,328
per month
Milan, Italy
$2,338
per month
Eindhoven, Netherlands
$2,345
per month
Doha, Qatar
$2,370
per month
Raleigh, United States
$2,370
per month
Montreal, Canada
$2,372
per month
Salt Lake City, United States
$2,395
per month
Kitchener, Canada
$2,419
per month
Kingston, Canada
$2,435
per month
Wellington, New Zealand
$2,445
per month
Madison, United States
$2,470
per month
Bern, Switzerland
$2,480
per month
Abu Dhabi, UAE
$2,482
per month
Frankfurt, Germany
$2,495
per month
Las Vegas, United States
$2,501
per month
Phoenix, United States
$2,502
per month
Portland, United States
$2,509
per month
Bristol, United Kingdom
$2,517
per month
Accra, Ghana
$2,520
per month
Pittsburgh, United States
$2,520
per month
Shanghai, China
$2,520
per month
Halifax, Canada
$2,545
per month
Gold Coast, Australia
$2,570
per month
Munich, Germany
$2,576
per month
Orlando, United States
$2,583
per month
Ottawa, Canada
$2,583
per month
Charlotte, United States
$2,620
per month
Rotterdam, Netherlands
$2,645
per month
The Hague, Netherlands
$2,645
per month
Manchester, United Kingdom
$2,660
per month
Toronto, Canada
$2,668
per month
Victoria, Canada
$2,668
per month
Paris, France
$2,691
per month
Burlington, Canada
$2,720
per month
Utrecht, Netherlands
$2,720
per month
Copenhagen, Denmark
$2,745
per month
Vaughan, Canada
$2,745
per month
Stavanger, Norway
$2,752
per month
Tampa, United States
$2,770
per month
Guelph, Canada
$2,805
per month
Basel, Switzerland
$2,814
per month
Nashville, United States
$2,826
per month
Denver, United States
$2,828
per month
Oakville, Canada
$2,842
per month
Perth, Australia
$2,888
per month
Austin, United States
$2,917
per month
Mississauga, Canada
$2,925
per month
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
$2,945
per month