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Cost of living in Tbilisi — monthly budget
Monthly cost in Tbilisi: food, utilities and median apartment rent. Food is the Geostat national average, tariffs are published, rent comes from sivrce listings.
A couple’s known monthly cost in Tbilisi — two food baskets plus utilities — is ₾549, before rent. Food is the September 2026 national average: Geostat does not publish this table by city.
Food
₾200
Couple · Month, excluding rent
₾549
Inflation, YoY
+5.6%
Basket, YoY
+7.2%
One adult
Month, excluding rent
₾292
Food ₾200·Utilities and telecom ₾92
1-room rent: —
Couple
Month, excluding rent
₾549
Food ₾400·Utilities and telecom ₾148
2-room rent: —
Utilities and telecom
| Electricity — 200 kWh | ₾44 |
|---|---|
| Gas — 15 m³ | ₾8 |
| Water — 10 m³ | ₾14 |
| Waste — 2 people | ₾5 |
| Internet — entry plan | ₾25 |
| Mobile — 2 lines | ₾52 |
| Total | ₾148 |
Electricity, gas and water at the stated usage. Internet and mobile are the low end of the market band, not a promo tariff.
Food basket — one adult, one month
| Item | Qty | Average | YoY | Line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat bread | 6 · 1 kilogram | ₾3.14 | +11.8% | ₾19 |
| Manufactured milk | 8 · 1 litre | ₾5.27 | -5.9% | ₾42 |
| Egg | 2 · 10 piece | ₾5.56 | -0.8% | ₾11 |
| Chicken meat | 2 · 1 kilogram | ₾10.97 | +10.3% | ₾22 |
| Beef | 1 · 1 kilogram | ₾31.01 | +17.6% | ₾31 |
| Cheese Imeruli | 0.5 · 1 kilogram | ₾18.49 | +6.6% | ₾9 |
| Sunflower oil | 1 · 1 litre | ₾7.37 | +7.5% | ₾7 |
| Potatoes | 4 · 1 kilogram | ₾1.55 | +5.5% | ₾6 |
| Rice | 1 · 1 kilogram | ₾4.24 | -5.4% | ₾4 |
| Sugar | 1 · 1 kilogram | ₾3.15 | -11.7% | ₾3 |
| Tomato | 3 · 1 kilogram | ₾2.81 | +28.9% | ₾8 |
| Cucumber | 2 · 1 kilogram | ₾1.85 | -37.7% | ₾4 |
| Khachapuri at a bakery | 8 · 1 piece | ₾4.07 | +15.5% | ₾33 |
| Total | +7.2% | ₾200 |
Geostat national average × a fixed quantity (bread 6 kg, milk 8 L, 20 eggs, chicken 2 kg, beef 1 kg, Imeruli 0.5 kg, oil 1 L, potatoes 4 kg, rice 1 kg, sugar 1 kg, tomatoes 3 kg, cucumbers 2 kg, 8 khachapuri). Not a shop tag and not the official CPI weights.
Fewer than 8 usable ads for this size, so no median is shown.
Sources
- Food — Geostat national average. Not a shop tag. September 2026
- Utilities — published GNERC tariffs.
- Lari — National Bank of Georgia official rate.
- Median of active rental ads on sivrce in this city (latest 400). Ads under ₾80 or over ₾8,000 are dropped. The count is in parentheses.
Common questions
What does it cost to live in Tbilisi?
A couple’s known monthly cost in Tbilisi — two food baskets plus utilities — is ₾549, before rent. Food is the September 2026 national average: Geostat does not publish this table by city. The total is a fixed food basket (Geostat national average) plus electricity, gas, water where a tariff is published, internet and mobile. Rent is a separate median and appears only when the city has enough active ads.
Do food prices differ by city?
This page uses one national average. Geostat’s table has no city split, so the food line is the same in Tbilisi and Batumi.
Where does the rent figure come from?
The median of active apartment rentals on sivrce, converted to GEL at the National Bank rate. It is not a survey and it does not include utilities.