Two cities, one country: 1,000 comparisons

Why this is worth checking before you book. A country-level cost figure hides this spread completely. Glasgow at $2,300 and London at $3,800 are the same country and the same currency, and one of them is 65% dearer than the other. The narrowest spread we hold is Egypt: Alexandria $800 against Cairo $900.

How this page was built. Every comparison linked here is generated from one dataset of 500 cities in 100 countries, scored on the same seven-point scale for cost of living, internet, safety, walkability, weather, air quality and things to do. Costs are a single monthly figure for one person living, not holidaying — rent, food, transport and utilities — held in whole hundreds of US dollars because that is the precision the underlying sources support. The groupings and every count on this page are computed from that dataset at build time, not entered by hand. Read the full method on the methodology page.