Prices in Lithuania

In this blog post I will give you some information about prices in Lithuania. I hope this information will help you to plan how much money you need if you are coming to Lithuania.

Prices in Lithuania probably won’t scare you if you live in mega city of the Western Europe. But still Lithuania is not so cheap as you could expect for Eastern Europe.

What is relatively cheap in Lithuania (compared to cities of Western Europe)? Public transportation, food in restaurants and cafes… I can’t think of anything else.

What is expensive in Lithuania? Food in supermarkets, clothes and shoes, electronic products, books, utilities (especially heating). Most of these goods and services in Lithuania cost the same or even more than in London, Berlin, Paris… For example, my family in winter pays about 400-500 LTL every month for heating (we live in a flat of 3 rooms). But our wages are really different from residents of the Western Europe.

Before I give you information about prices, I want to introduce you what are wages and pensions in Lithuania. You have to understand that we, Lithuanians, have reasons to whine how hard life in Lithuania is…

1 LTL = 0,29 EUR = 0,40 USD

Minimal monthly wage in Lithuania: 670 LTL (net)

Average monthly wage in Lithuania: 1500-1600 LTL (net)

Maximal monthly unemployment benefit paid by government (maximal period of payment is 6 months): 650 LTL

Average monthly retirement pension: 750 LTL

Cheap flights to Lithuania

For a few years situation with cheap flights to Lithuania was really bad. At the moment we don’t have any cheap flights to the capital of Lithuania – Vilnius. Two Lithuanian companies flying from Vilnius airport bankrupted in recent years. Cheap flights company Ryanair flies only to Kaunas (second biggest city of Lithuania, about 100 kilometers from Vilnius). But this situation will finally change! This spring new cheap flights company Wizzair comes to Lithuania and will be flying to Vilnius. Ryanair got scared of the competition and soon will also start flights to Vilnius. It’s great news for Lithuania! Finally Vilnius will be easy reachable by plane.

In this blog post I will give you information about cheap flights to Lithuania: from which cities you can fly cheap to Lithuania and how much it costs (one way).