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Can you afford it?

Tell us what lands in your account each month. We will set it against the four costs our city guides can actually source, rent, a desk, weekday lunches and getting around, and show you what is left for everything else.

Berlin, a month

£1,080 to £1,670 for the basics.

Add your take-home pay above to see what is left.

Not every cost has a checked figure for Berlin, so the real total is higher than this. The missing ones are marked below.

RentFurnished one-bed, asking: most of 30 Wunderflats listings, October 2026. An operator snapshot, not a statistic. EUR 1,100 to 1,650
£927 to £1,390
A deskCoworking at betahaus Kreuzberg, CLUB (business hours) to PRO (24/7), excluding VAT. EUR 115 to 275
£97 to £232
Weekday lunchesNo checked price for a cheap weekday lunch (Mittagstisch): only Numbeo-based blogs had figures
Not included
Getting aroundDeutschlandticket, all local transport in Germany. EUR 66.80 from 1 January 2027. EUR 63
£53

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What is counted. Four costs, and only four, because they are the ones every guide can source: rent, a desk, a lunch on each of 22 working days, and getting around. Food shopping, bills, a phone, insurance, tax and evenings out are not in it, which is why the answer is what is left for everything else, not what is left to save.

Where the figures come from. Each city's guide, checked against official statistics, the operators' own price pages and dated listings. Each line says what it is. Where a guide only publishes rent per square metre, the line says what size flat it assumes. Last copied from the guides on 3 October 2026.

The exchange rates. The same daily feed as the visa checker, from ExchangeRate-API, last updated 20 October 2026. Pesos are converted at the official rate.