Estimator
Cost of living in Lithuania
Built from official statistics and published tariffs, not crowd-sourced guesses. Where no citable per-city figure exists, we ask you for it rather than inventing one.
Your household
Consumption defaults are starting points, not measurements. Your building, insulation and habits move them a long way. There is no free, citable city-level grocery figure for Lithuania, so that line is yours.
A month in Kaunas
€720.73
for the lines below, per month
Registered-stock average, not an asking price. Escalated from the 2025 base with the national rent index.
This figure comes from secondary reporting: confirm it with the operator.
Rent starts from the 2025 official average and is escalated by the national rent index (109.76, 2025 = 100).
Where these numbers come from
Every line above traces to one of these. Each figure shows the date its source put it in force.
- Ignitis standard plan, incl. VAT
electricity eur kwh: figure in force from 2026-07-01 ↗ - VERT (National Energy Regulatory Council)
heating ct kwh: figure in force from 2026-09-01 ↗ - Eurostat HICP CP041, 2025=100
rent index: figure in force from 2026-08-01 ↗ - Valstybes duomenu agentura
rent per sqm year: figure in force from 2025-12-31 ↗ - Kaunas city (secondary source)
transport monthly pass: figure in force from 2026-09-01 ↗ - Klaipedos autobusu parkas
transport monthly pass: figure in force from 2026-09-01 ↗ - Panevezio autobusu parkas
transport monthly pass: figure in force from 2026-09-01 ↗ - Busturas (Siauliai)
transport monthly pass: figure in force from 2026-09-01 ↗ - Judu (Vilnius public transport)
transport monthly pass: figure in force from 2026-09-01 ↗
Common questions
- How much does it cost to live in Vilnius each month?
- Using the official average registered rent for Vilnius, a 55 m² flat plus district heating, electricity, water and one monthly transport pass comes to about €885.86 a month before groceries.
- Why is this rent figure lower than what I see advertised?
- Two reasons, both stated on this page. The base is the official average across all registered rental contracts, not asking prices for new listings, and the base year is 2025 escalated to the current month with the national rent index. Asking prices for new listings run higher.
- Which Lithuanian city is cheapest?
- On official average rent per square metre, Panevėžys and Šiauliai are the cheapest of the five largest cities, and Vilnius is the most expensive: roughly 70% above Panevėžys per square metre.
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