Where to live in Ukraine
We track 4 cities in Ukraine: Dnipro, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa. Average temperatures run from 10°C to 13°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,270 to €2,356 a month to live centrally. Ukraine sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Ukrainian
- Limited English
- Safety
- 45/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 52/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~70 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The 4 cities we track
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
Ukraine sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Possible, with conditions. Residency comes through employment with a Ukrainian sponsor, marriage or family reunification, study, or a capital investment into a Ukrainian company; there is no passive-income, pension, or sufficient-means route.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Ukraine:
- Investment: about $100k (Ukraine permanent-residence (immigration) permit via USD 100,000 direct foreign investment into the economy; cheaper than the EUR 100,000 (about USD 116,000 at 1.16) temporary business-residence route; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 81 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 117 need a visa in advance.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).