Cost-of-living calculator · Eurostat PLI 2024
What would the same life cost elsewhere?
Enter your income and where you live, then pick a destination. We use Eurostat price-level indices to show how prices compare and the income you'd need to keep the same standard of living.
Calculator corpus · 2024 · 31 countries
Default run: €40,000 in Germany (index 109) scales to about €33,254 in Spain (index 91) - 17% lower overall on the EU-27 = 100 scale.
- 109
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 91
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- €33,254
- Scaled income (default)
- 57
- 🇧🇬 cheapest
Same Eurostat overall cost indices the interactive form uses: destination divided by origin, times your income.
Europe by cost-index band
Exclusive partition of all 31 calculator countries on the EU-27 = 100 scale, independent of the pair ladder chart.
Two views before you run the numbers
Corpus ladder on the EU-27 = 100 scale, plus how each spending category shifts from Germany to Spain on the default pair. Change the selects below; the form still recomputes live, and these charts stay as the SSR corpus frame.
Where the default pair sits on the corpus ladder
🇪🇸 Spain vs EU-27 = 100
Gauge reads the same destination overall index as the ladder bar, not a second dataset.
Germany to Spain: category price gaps
Percent change in category indices (destination / origin - 1), 2024. Signed gaps stay in a table so cheaper categories remain readable.
| Category | Gap |
|---|---|
| Housing & utilities | -15% |
| Groceries | -7% |
| Transport | -20% |
| Healthcare | -14% |
| Utilities | -27% |
| Restaurants | -25% |
Positive means Spain is pricier than Germany in that category; negative means cheaper. Overall income scaling still uses the single overall cost index, the same ratio the form applies.
Corpus spread: 🇨🇭 Switzerland is about 3.2x 🇧🇬 Bulgaria on overall cost. Cheap and affordable still diverge when income is local; see best-value.
The bottom line
According to Eurostat comparative price levels, to live in Spain as you do in Germany on €40,000, you'd need about €33,254 - less, because Spain is roughly 17% cheaper overall.
How this calculator works
Every country has a Eurostat comparative price-level index, what a standardised basket of goods and services costs there, with the EU-27 average set to 100. To keep the same standard of living when you move, your income needs to scale by the ratio of the two price levels: destination index ÷ origin index. We apply that ratio to the income you enter, and break it down by category so you can see where the difference comes from.
This is a directional estimate, not a budget. Real costs depend on your housing, lifestyle and city - a capital is usually pricier than the national average. Treat the result as a starting point, then open each country's profile for the full category detail.
What to do with this comparison
Spain's cost index alone does not show where the difference comes from -- open its full profile, or check whether that gap holds across every ranking, not just this one pair.
- Spain's full cost profile
- Germany's full cost profile
- See the best-value ranking
- Compare city-level costs too
This is a directional estimate, not a budget. Real costs depend on your housing, lifestyle and city -- a capital is usually pricier than its country's national average.
Source: Eurostat, comparative price levels (prc_ppp_ind) and median equivalised net income Price-level indices, EU-27 = 100, 2024.
Read our methodology - how these indices are sourced and computed.
Open Data
Download the compiled country price-level extract as country-cost-statistics.csv (same CSV as the homepage and /statistics Dataset).
PlainCostOfLiving is rendered directly from Eurostat comparative price levels and median equivalised net income, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. Primary sources: Eurostat comparative price levels (prc_ppp_ind) and Eurostat median equivalised net income (ilc_di03).