Austria electricity price: the day-ahead price of its own zone

Austria has been a bidding zone of its own since 2018. The calculator shows its exchange price; you add grid fees, levies and taxes from your bill.

Day

Per kWh from your bill, gross

Average for 24 October 2026

24.1 ct/kWh

All-in price, Austria

Daily average, all-in24.1 ct/kWh
Cheapest hour (13:00)20.2 ct/kWh
Most expensive hour (18:00)26.7 ct/kWh
Exchange price, daily average24.1 ct/kWh
Negative quarter hours0

Calculation method and sources

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Each bar = one quarter hour, all-in price with your inputs
Every hour as a table
HourExchangeAll-in
00:0024.2 ct/kWh24.2 ct/kWh
01:0024.6 ct/kWh24.6 ct/kWh
02:0024.1 ct/kWh24.1 ct/kWh
03:0024.5 ct/kWh24.5 ct/kWh
04:0024.5 ct/kWh24.5 ct/kWh
05:0023.7 ct/kWh23.7 ct/kWh
06:0024.9 ct/kWh24.9 ct/kWh
07:0024.5 ct/kWh24.5 ct/kWh
08:0025.3 ct/kWh25.3 ct/kWh
09:0025.8 ct/kWh25.8 ct/kWh
10:0023.7 ct/kWh23.7 ct/kWh
11:0020.7 ct/kWh20.7 ct/kWh
12:0020.3 ct/kWh20.3 ct/kWh
13:0020.2 ct/kWh20.2 ct/kWh
14:0020.9 ct/kWh20.9 ct/kWh
15:0024.3 ct/kWh24.3 ct/kWh
16:0024.1 ct/kWh24.1 ct/kWh
17:0026.5 ct/kWh26.5 ct/kWh
18:0026.7 ct/kWh26.7 ct/kWh
19:0025.4 ct/kWh25.4 ct/kWh
20:0025.7 ct/kWh25.7 ct/kWh
21:0025.5 ct/kWh25.5 ct/kWh
22:0025.0 ct/kWh25.0 ct/kWh
23:0022.3 ct/kWh22.3 ct/kWh

Exchange price plus what you entered. We do not add this country’s grid charges and taxes ourselves: take them from your bill.

Latest day with prices: 25 October 2026. Day-ahead wholesale prices: Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de (CC BY 4.0), fetched on 24 October 2026. Calculation: Radif Partners

The Austrian electricity price is set on the exchange in a bidding zone of its own, ever since the joint zone with Germany was split on 1 October 2018. As in Germany, the day-ahead auction fixes a price for every quarter hour of the next day at noon. On 24 October 2026 the Austrian exchange price averages 24.1 ct/kWh; the cheapest hour starts at 13:00 and the dearest at 18:00. Over the last 30 days the Austrian average was 20.0 ct/kWh against 15.5 ct/kWh in Germany, and Austria was the dearer of the two on 25 of 30 days. What Austrian households pay on top, meaning grid charges, levies and VAT, we have not checked line by line in the law, so we do not add it ourselves. Enter the per-kWh amount from your bill in the “Grid, levies and taxes” field and the calculator shows your all-in price for each quarter hour. The exchange values, the curve and the cheapest hour stand on their own regardless.

Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and sources

Austria and Germany month by month

Monthly average of the day-ahead price, source SMARD
MonthAustriaGermany/Luxembourg
October 202510.89 ct/kWh8.44 ct/kWh
November 202511.60 ct/kWh10.19 ct/kWh
December 202511.40 ct/kWh9.35 ct/kWh
January 202614.14 ct/kWh11.01 ct/kWh
February 202610.92 ct/kWh9.66 ct/kWh
March 202611.24 ct/kWh9.93 ct/kWh
April 20268.67 ct/kWh7.85 ct/kWh
May 202610.00 ct/kWh9.75 ct/kWh
June 202610.67 ct/kWh10.95 ct/kWh
July 202611.72 ct/kWh10.55 ct/kWh
August 202614.81 ct/kWh12.69 ct/kWh
September 202617.37 ct/kWh14.48 ct/kWh

Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de: wholesale electricity prices (CC BY 4.0) publishes these values for every bidding zone of European market coupling under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Dynamic tariffs from Austrian suppliers generally refer to this day-ahead price; which index applies to your contract is stated in its terms.

What the calculator cannot do here

For Germany and the Netherlands we add the statutory charges ourselves because we have read them in the legal texts. We have not done so for Austria yet, so it stays at exchange price plus your input. For German households, German electricity price breakdown shows how large the fixed parts are.

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Cheapest hour finds the best hours for an appliance, for the Austrian zone too. The history since 2019 is on day-ahead price history, days with prices below zero on negative electricity prices.

Frequently asked questions

Since when has Austria had its own bidding zone?

Since 1 October 2018. Before that, Germany, Austria and Luxembourg formed a single zone with one exchange price. Since the split, transmission capacity at the border is allocated, and the two countries’ prices can drift apart when the lines are full. On many days they still sit close together, as the monthly table below shows.

Why is Austrian power sometimes dearer than German power?

Because Austria has less wind and solar capacity than Germany and, when the border lines are full, cannot import enough cheap German power on windy days. In the other direction, Alpine hydro and pumped storage help Austria smooth evening peaks. The table compares the monthly averages of both zones over the past year.

What should I enter as grid, levies and taxes?

The sum of the per-kWh amounts your bill shows next to the energy price, such as grid use, grid losses, levies and the VAT on them, in gross cents per kWh. Fixed monthly or yearly amounts do not belong there, because they do not depend on the time of day. With nothing entered, the calculator shows the exchange price alone.

Related pages and calculators

Day-ahead prices

Daily, monthly and yearly averages of the day-ahead price since 2019.

Electricity price tomorrow

Every quarter hour of the next day, as soon as the auction result is out.

Negative electricity prices

How often the exchange price fell below zero and what reaches a household.

Cheapest hour

The best start time for a washing machine, dishwasher or dryer, today and tomorrow.

Sources

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