Skendaraj
- Population
- โ
- Prices for
- Mar 2026
One person needs about $1,050 a month in Skendaraj, rent included: 82% less than in New York. The average net salary is $697 a month.
Livability
Seven domain scores, weighted. 4 of them have data for Skendaraj; a missing one is left out of the average, not counted as zero.
- Purchasing power25%47
- Safetycountry20%54
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%No data
- Connectivitycountry10%37
- Cost10%68
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
US dollars a month. Indices compare with New York, which is 100; changes are against the same month a year earlier.
Prices
55 everyday prices in US dollars, the median of this month's contributions, each against a base you choose.
Differences are against New York; teal marks a price that is lower (or a salary that is higher).
| Item | Skendaraj | New York | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | |||
| Meal, inexpensive restaurant | $6.90 | $25.00 | โ72% |
| Meal for 2, mid-range restaurant (3 courses) | $34.50 | $140 | โ75% |
| McMeal at McDonald's (or equivalent combo meal) | $8.05 | $14.00 | โ42% |
| Domestic beer (0.5 l, draught) | $2.30 | $8.00 | โ71% |
| Imported beer (0.33 l bottle, restaurant) | $2.30 | $10.00 | โ77% |
| Cappuccino (regular) | $2.30 | $6.37 | โ64% |
| Coke/Pepsi (0.33 l bottle) | $2.30 | $3.80 | โ39% |
| Water (0.33 l bottle) | $1.15 | $2.89 | โ60% |
| Markets | |||
| Milk (1 l) | $1.15 | $1.36 | โ15% |
| Loaf of fresh white bread (500g) | $1.15 | $4.68 | โ75% |
| Rice, white (1 kg) | $1.15 | $6.97 | โ84% |
| Eggs (12) | $1.38 | $5.73 | โ76% |
| Local cheese (1 kg) | $3.45 | $17.38 | โ80% |
| Chicken fillets (1 kg) | $3.45 | $15.11 | โ77% |
| Beef round (1 kg, or equivalent red meat) | $5.75 | $17.77 | โ68% |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.15 | $6.11 | โ81% |
| Bananas (1 kg) | $1.15 | $2.20 | โ48% |
| Oranges (1 kg) | $1.15 | $5.77 | โ80% |
| Tomato (1 kg) | $1.15 | $6.25 | โ82% |
| Potato (1 kg) | $2.30 | $3.47 | โ34% |
| Onion (1 kg) | $1.15 | $4.17 | โ72% |
| Lettuce (1 head) | $1.15 | $2.72 | โ58% |
| Water (1.5 l bottle) | $1.15 | $2.50 | โ54% |
| Bottle of wine, mid-range | $16.10 | $20.00 | โ19% |
| Domestic beer (0.5 l bottle) | $1.15 | $3.21 | โ64% |
| Imported beer (0.33 l bottle) | $1.15 | $3.96 | โ71% |
| Cigarettes (20 pack, Marlboro) | $4.60 | $19.00 | โ76% |
| Transport | |||
| One-way ticket, local transport | $1.15 | $3.00 | โ62% |
| Monthly pass, regular price | $8.05 | $140 | โ94% |
| Taxi start, normal tariff | $1.15 | $3.00 | โ62% |
| Taxi, 1 km, normal tariff | $1.15 | $2.18 | โ47% |
| Taxi, 1 hour waiting, normal tariff | $6.90 | $42.00 | โ84% |
| Gasoline (1 l) | $2.30 | $1.10 | +109% |
| Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (or equivalent new car) | $23,001 | $35,458 | โ35% |
| Toyota Corolla Sedan 1.6l 97kW (or equivalent new car) | $27,601 | $25,309 | +9% |
| Utilities, per month | |||
| Basic utilities, 85mยฒ apartment (electricity, heating, cooling, water, garbage) | $196 | โ | โ |
| Mobile plan (calls + 10GB data) | $23.00 | $73.50 | โ69% |
| Internet (60 Mbps+, unlimited, cable/ADSL) | $23.00 | $71.93 | โ68% |
| Sports and leisure | |||
| Fitness club, monthly fee (1 adult) | $34.50 | $126 | โ73% |
| Tennis court rent (1 hour, weekend) | $9.20 | $62.38 | โ85% |
| Cinema, 1 seat, international release | $4.60 | $23.00 | โ80% |
| Childcare | |||
| Preschool, full day, private (monthly, 1 child) | โ | $3,366 | โ |
| International primary school (yearly, 1 child) | โ | $60,589 | โ |
| Clothing and shoes | |||
| 1 pair of jeans (Levi's 501 or similar) | $23.00 | $72.80 | โ68% |
| 1 summer dress, chain store (Zara, H&M) | $23.00 | $53.22 | โ57% |
| 1 pair of Nike running shoes, mid-range | $46.00 | $118 | โ61% |
| 1 pair of men's leather business shoes | $57.50 | $125 | โ54% |
| Rent, per month | |||
| Apartment (1 bedroom) in city centre | $460 | $4,417 | โ90% |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) outside centre | $345 | $3,033 | โ89% |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) in city centre | $1,035 | $9,242 | โ89% |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) outside centre | $690 | $5,461 | โ87% |
| Buying an apartment | |||
| Price per square meter, apartment in city centre | $2,590 | $18,759 | โ86% |
| Price per square meter, apartment outside centre | $1,417 | $6,523 | โ78% |
| Salary and financing | |||
| Average monthly net salary, after tax | $697 | $5,178 | โ87% |
| Mortgage interest rate, 20-year fixed rate (%) | 3.00% | 6.49% | โ3.5 pts |
Three years of prices
Each line starts at 100 in its first month, so a rise in rent can be read against a rise in salary on the same scale. The core basket is twelve everyday prices. Hover for the actual values.
Show the monthly values
| Month | Core basket index | Rent, 1 bedroom | Net salary |
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| Mar 2026 | 46.3 | $460 | $697 |
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| Feb 2024 | โ | โ | โ |
| Jan 2024 | โ | $166 | $249 |
| Dec 2023 | โ | $164 | $246 |
| Nov 2023 | โ | $159 | $238 |
| Oct 2023 | โ | $159 | $238 |
Safety
Numbeo crime survey. Both indices run 0 to 100; they are two sides of the same answers.
Country-level: the livability score uses Kosovo's safety figure
No crime survey has been published for Skendaraj yet.
Quality of life
Numbeo's published indices for Skendaraj. Listed as Numbeo computes them, next to this index's own figures above.
Numbeo has not ranked Skendaraj on quality of life.
Climate
Monthly means from NASA POWER climate normals. Temperature bands use the same scale on every city page.
No monthly climate normals for Skendaraj yet.
- Annual mean
- โ
- Warmest month
- โ
- Coldest month
- โ
- Rain a year
- โ
- HumidityRelative, annual mean
- โ
- SunshineSolar energy per day
- โ
- Clear-sky daysA year
- โ
- Comfort score0-100, 100 at 14-22 ยฐC
- โ
Air, internet and housing
The last 30 days of air, the latest month of broadband tests, and the property survey.
Air
No air-quality readings for Skendaraj.
Internet
Kosovo median; city not listed- Upload
- 33Mbps, fixed
- Latency
- 8ms, fixed
- Mobile download
- โMbps
- Mobile latency
- โms
Speedtest Global Index, Aug 2026.
Housing
- Price to income
- โYears of income, 90 mยฒ flat
- Price to rent
- โYears of rent, centre
- Rental yield
- โGross, centre
- Mortgage rate
- โ20-year fixed
- 80 mยฒ in the centre
- 24.8Years of net salary
Cities like Skendaraj
In other countries, with the closest livability score and cost of living index.
About these numbers
What the figures on this page rest on.
- Confidence
- Low confidence
- Contributors
- 1Numbeo price survey
- Latest prices
- Mar 20264 readings that month
- Months with prices
- 1 of 12Last 12 months
- Items priced
- 96%1 basket items from the country median
- Location
- Not matched to coordinates yet
- Index rebuilt
- 24 Sept 2026