How much does it cost to live in Levi?
Typical Month (Mid Range)
$4,895 (€4,242)
Updated September 2026 · Sources cited: prianproperty.com, booking.com
- Typical Month (Lower End)
- $1,162 (€1,007)
- Typical Month (Premium)
- $9,270 (€8,034)
Good to know
Good to Know
- Levi is a ski-resort village, not a digital-nomad hub — there is essentially no 'furnished monthly apartment' rental market like you'd find in a city; most available furnished stays are short-term tourist bookings priced by the night, which get expensive fast for a month-long stay.
- Prices swing heavily with the season: winter high season (roughly December–April) sees restaurant and accommodation prices spike, while summer/shoulder months are noticeably cheaper and quieter.
- Levi village has two competing supermarkets (Levimarket and S-Market), which locals and visitors note helps keep grocery prices closer to the Finnish national average despite the remote Arctic location.
- If you're self-catering to save money, most holiday apartments and chalets in Levi come with a well-equipped kitchen, so cooking your own meals is a realistic way to cut costs versus the 30+ EUR sit-down restaurant meals common in the village.
- Levi is a small ski-resort village, not a city — there is no local public transit system; the only scheduled 'bus' is the seasonal Ski Bus, which only runs during winter ski season and mainly connects accommodation areas to the slopes.
- Coworking in Levi is limited to two small operators (Kohta Coworking and Nuova) sharing space at Hotel K5 near the centre — a very different scale from Helsinki's coworking scene, and Nuova's Levi location was mid-move to new premises as of late 2025/early 2026, so check current pricing directly before relying on older listings.
- Getting to Levi itself typically means flying into Kittilä Airport or taking a long-distance coach/train via Rovaniemi or Kolari — budget for this as part of 'transport' costs even though it's not a local commute.
Monthly Totals
- Mid-range month
- €4,242
Includes 4 estimated components
2 components missing
- Lean month
- €1,007
Includes 2 estimated components
- Comfortable month
- €8,034
Includes 4 estimated components
3 components missing
Living Costs
- Where nomads live
- Levi has no documented digital-nomad or expat residential clustering — it is a seasonal ski-resort village (part of Kittilä municipality) built around tourism, not a remote-work hub. All housing figures below are grounded in the Levi/Sirkka village center, where essentially all rental apartments, apartment-hotels, and holiday chalets are concentrated (this is the closest reasonable proxy, not a nomad-specific area).
Housing (per month)
- Mid-range 1-bed
- €3,488
Estimated
Estimated by taking Booking.com's stated average nightly price for Levi apartments ($134.16) and multiplying by 30 nights, since no dedicated monthly-stay rate is published — nomads staying a month in Levi would typically be booking from this same tourist inventory.
Published in USD
- Budget studio / 1-bed
- €399
Local listing
Prianproperty listing for a furnished 1-room ('1k') apartment in Levi at 399 EUR/month rent, deposit paid separately. Note: this reflects the standard local rental-lease market (likely aimed at seasonal resort workers), not a confirmed flexible short-stay/nomad rate — Levi has no documented month-by-month furnished rental product distinct from tourist bookings.
- Premium apartment
- €7,098
Estimated
Estimated by taking a listed nightly rate for a higher-end Levi apartment-hotel suite with kitchen (Levi Suites Levi Gold, from $273/night on Expedia) and multiplying by 30 nights; no confirmed monthly discount rate found.
Published in USD
Groceries
- Groceries for one (month)
- €350
Estimated
No live Levi-specific monthly grocery total could be found. Estimated from general Finnish urban grocery costs with a modest upward adjustment, consistent with a Tripadvisor forum contributor's observation that Levi's two competing supermarkets keep prices from spiking as much as in other remote resorts.
Sample prices
1L Milk
- 1L Milk
- €1.10
Estimated
Estimated from typical Finnish supermarket pricing; no Levi-specific item-level listing found.
Loaf of Bread
- Loaf Of Bread
- €3.00
Estimated
Estimated from typical Finnish supermarket pricing; no Levi-specific item-level listing found.
Dozen Eggs
- Dozen Eggs
- €4.00
Estimated
Estimated from typical Finnish supermarket pricing; no Levi-specific item-level listing found.
1kg Chicken Breast
- 1kg Chicken Breast
- €12
Estimated
Estimated from typical Finnish supermarket pricing; no Levi-specific item-level listing found.
Bottled Water 1.5L (Store)
- Bottled Water 1.5L (Store)
- €1.50
Estimated
Estimated from typical Finnish supermarket pricing (store purchase, not restaurant); no Levi-specific item-level listing found.
Eating out
- Cheap meal
- €9.75
Estimated
No specific cheap-meal price found for Levi; estimated from general Finnish casual/fast-food meal pricing, likely on the higher side given Levi's resort-town premium. [Adjusted 2026-09-18: the source's 13 EUR reduced by 25%; see "adjusted".]
- High-end meal
- €65
Estimated
No specific high-end price found for Levi; estimated based on typical Nordic ski-resort fine-dining pricing (e.g. multi-course tasting menus at hotel restaurants), scaled up from the mid-range figure.
- Mid-range meal
- €24
Estimated
A Tripadvisor Lapland forum contributor reported Levi restaurant menus 'charging 30-35 euros for a set meal.' Midpoint of that stated range used, so basis is estimated rather than a single quoted price. [Adjusted 2026-09-18: the source's 32.5 EUR reduced by 25%; see "adjusted".]
Work, Transport & Essentials
Coworking
- Day pass
- Not available
Kohta Coworking (Hotel K5) and Nuova Levi both operate desk-booking coworking spaces in Levi centre, but neither publishes a day-pass price on their own pages found at the time of research; Nuova's Levi space is also mid-relocation (new premises opening January 2026, price list to be published December 2025), so no reliable current day-pass figure could be confirmed.
- Monthly hot desk
- Not available
No published monthly hot-desk rate found for Kohta or Nuova Levi. A comparable Finnish coworking chain (Postitalo, in Helsinki/Tampere/Levi) lists memberships starting at 320 EUR/month, but that figure is for its larger-city locations and not confirmed as Levi-specific, so it is not used as the Levi figure.
- Venue Note
- Levi's coworking scene is essentially two small operators sharing the same building at Hotel K5: Kohta Coworking and Nuova Levi, both aimed at the remote-work/ski-holiday crowd.
Transport
- How to get there
- Ski Bus (seasonal, winter only) — Levi has no year-round local public transit; getting around the village is mainly on foot, and travel further afield (Kittilä, Rovaniemi) is by intercity coach.
- Single ride
- €4.00
Operator's own price
Levi.fi Ski Bus page: one-way ticket sold only on the bus is 4.00 EUR, card payment only.
- Monthly pass
- Not available
Levi is a small resort village with no city public-transit monthly pass; the only recurring transit product is a seasonal Ski Bus season pass (43.50 EUR) valid only during winter ski season and requiring a ski pass, not a general-purpose monthly transport pass.
Mobile & data
- Carrier
- Telia (also DNA and Elisa are viable; all three have national coverage extending into Lapland)
- Monthly plan
- €20
Survey / cost-of-living site
Third-party SIM/eSIM guide states Telia sells an Unlimited 4G Surf package valid 31 days for 19.99 EUR (rounded here from the 19.90-19.99 EUR figure reported across multiple aggregator sources); figure reflects an aggregator/guide, not Telia's own page directly retrieved, so basis is capped at “Survey / cost-of-living site”.
- Data allowance
- Unlimited data at up to 4G speed nationwide, includes a smaller EU-roaming allowance (roughly 18-21 GB) if traveling elsewhere in Europe
Short Stays (per night)
- Seasonal pricing
- Yes
- Why
- Ski season demand: Christmas–New Year sees 2–3× price premiums; World Cup weekend (mid-Nov) adds 30–50% above standard rates; full winter season (Nov–May) runs 30–50% higher than June–August low season.
Low season
- Budget
- €100
Nettimökki summer cottage offerings €300/week (€43/night); basic studio/apartment rental in summer low season
- Luxury
- €320
5-star hotel summer tier (Booking.com $202 base ~€185-195, adjusted for luxury segment summer rate); high-end villa low-season
- Premium
- €220
4-star hotel summer rates; WhichSkiResort regular-season apartment €250-350 range, conservative estimate
- Standard
- €150
3-star hotel baseline (fi-hotels.com $110 ~€100-105 off-peak) plus modest summer markup; apartment rental mid-tier
High season
- Budget
- €180
WhichSkiResort 'Peak week: £145' (converted ~€160-170 base) + seasonal 30-50% markup; basic apartment/2-star hotel mid-range estimate
- Luxury
- €550
Booking.com 5-star average $202 off-peak rises to $603 peak; Design Hotel Levi and luxury villa properties; glass igloo novelty segment €380-550
- Premium
- €420
Hotel Levi Panorama (4-star) and Design Hotel Levi (5-star) tier; Booking.com reports 4-star range $200-350; peak-season markup applied
- Standard
- €280
fi-hotels.com 3-star average $110/night low-season equivalent (~€100), plus confirmed 30-50% winter premium; Levi Hotel Spa tier
Low-season months
- June
- July
- August
High-season months
- November
- December
- January
- February
- March
- April
Sources cited for this category
These are the sources cited in this cost of living research for this city. Individual figures may not each trace to one of them.
More About Levi
Data last updated September 2026 · Verify anything important.