Cost of living calculator
The monthly cost of living for your household in any of the district cities.
Data updated 13.11.2026 · Sources and methodology
How the calculator works
- Each line is an official quantity times an official price, in EUR including VAT, with its scope (city, district or national), period and source.
- Households follow the OECD-modified scale: the first adult counts 1, every further person aged 14 or over 0.5 and every child under 14 0.3. Food at home starts from the NSI Household Budget Survey and follows the food price index.
- Electricity covers appliances, lighting and cooking at the KEVR tariff of the supply zone; heating is its own line, by the mode you choose. Water uses the NSI water use per person of the district and the operator tariff.
- A car: the kilometres you enter at the European Commission's on-road average use of all cars on that fuel in Bulgaria, or at your own car's consumption if you enter it; a newer car usually uses less. Fuel is priced at the weekly price, an electric car at the household electricity tariff of the supply zone, as when charging at home; public chargers cost more. The annual vignette and the average MTPL premium are added.
- Rent is included only as you enter it; market rents are published only where enough listings exist. A line without a verified value for the city is left out of the total and named.
- Rows are rounded to the euro and then summed; the total is rounded to EUR 10 with a range. Values past their update date are flagged as outdated.
- We keep the answers without IP address or account link for 5 years, to analyse use of the calculator in aggregate; we publish results only for groups of at least 10 answers. The amounts you enter are not stored.