One person
One adult, a rented one-bedroom flat (60 m²)
51,765 TL / month
25,211 TL if they own their home.
İstanbul · Türkiye
Cost of living in Istanbul
One person renting a one-bedroom flat in Istanbul spends about 51,765 TL a month on rent, food, bills and personal costs. A two-bedroom rents for about 39,831 TL. From official Turkish data. For one person, Istanbul is the most expensive of 74 provinces.
- One person, a month
- 51,765 TL
- renting a one-bedroom flat
- Two-bedroom rent
- 39,831 TL
- 90 m², newly let
- Couple
- 82,643 TL
- two-bedroom flat
- Family of four
- 121,943 TL
- three-bedroom flat
Three households in Istanbul
Rent, groceries, eating out, bills, phone and personal spending. Building fees, a car, public transport and school are not included.
Couple
Two adults, a rented two-bedroom flat (90 m²)
82,643 TL / month
42,812 TL if they own their home.
Family of four
Two adults, two children aged 7–13, a rented three-bedroom flat (120 m²)
121,943 TL / month
68,835 TL if they own their home.
Where one person’s money goes
Rent is 51% of the total. The last column says how local each figure is.
- Housing 51%
- Food 28%
- Bills 6%
| Item | A month | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Rent | 26,554 TL | Province data |
| Groceries | 10,961 TL | Regional prices |
| Eating out | 3,338 TL | Regional prices |
| Electricity | 515 TL | Province data |
| Natural gas | 822 TL | Province data |
| Water | 282 TL | Province data |
| Home internet | 950 TL | National price |
| Mobile phone | 465 TL | National price |
| Clothing and shoes | 1,649 TL | Regional prices |
| Personal care | 1,534 TL | Regional prices |
| Health and medicine | 1,441 TL | Regional prices |
| Leisure, sport, culture | 1,025 TL | Regional prices |
| Household goods and cleaning | 2,231 TL | Regional prices |
| Total | 51,765 TL |
“Province data” is the province’s own official figure. “Regional prices” is a national figure adjusted with the statistics office’s price level for the region. “National price” is the same everywhere, such as phone and internet plans.
Provinces that cost about the same
The same one-person household.
Reading these figures
They describe a household that rents at today’s market rent, heats with natural gas and buys the healthy-diet grocery basket that the Türk-İş labour confederation prices every month. Amounts are in Turkish lira and are monthly. Prices in Türkiye move quickly: these use data as of 30 September 2026, and the page is rebuilt whenever a source publishes a new figure.
The province is priced as a whole, so a central district will cost more than the figure here and an outlying one less. How the figures are made. The same page in Turkish has more detail, including gas, water and minimum-wage pages for Istanbul: İstanbul yaşam maliyeti.
Data as of · All 81 provinces · 74 provinces have their own rent data