Cost of Living in Stavanger

This page summarises typical cost of living in Stavanger, Norway, expressed in NOK. A single person can expect to budget around 26,500 NOK per month before rent-driven variation, with an affordability score of 41/100 (higher means more affordable). On that scale Stavanger is relatively expensive relative to other cities in the dataset. These are deterministic planning estimates derived from a country cost baseline adjusted for the city's affordability and size — they are not live market prices, not a ranking, and should be verified against current local sources before relocation or travel decisions.

Currency: NOK. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16.

Stavanger has an affordability score of 41/100, which places it in the relatively expensive range relative to other indexed cities. Because every city profile uses the same scale, this score is the most reliable cross-city comparison — local-currency totals above are not directly comparable between countries.

In Stavanger a single-person monthly budget is around 26,500 NOK and a one-bedroom rent around 14,100 NOK. Use the affordability score (41/100) to compare across countries, since amounts are shown in each city's local currency.

• Cost of living in Bergen — affordability 42/100
• Cost of living in Oslo — affordability 56/100
• Cost of living in Trondheim — affordability 45/100