Electricity prices in Austria today
The wholesale day-ahead price in Austria is €250.00 per MWh right now, or €0.2500 per kWh. Today's average is €263.01/MWh, −€36.12 against yesterday, and €28.89 above the European average of €234.12/MWh.
- Average today
- €263.01
- /MWh
- Lowest
- €220.00
- /MWh at 09:45
- Highest
- €349.77
- /MWh at 15:45
- In €/kWh
- €0.2630
- /kWh wholesale only
Price for each interval, 7 November 2026
96 of 96 intervals published at 15-minute resolution.
Cheapest electricity hours today
The three cheapest intervals in Austria today average €222.32/MWh, €40.69 below the day's average of €263.01. The lowest of them is €220.00/MWh at 09:45. Over the last seven days the cheapest hour in Austria has typically been around 03:00. That is demand, not solar: consumption collapses overnight while hydro and nuclear keep running, which is the shape of a northern market rather than a sunny one.
- 09:45 – 10:00€220.00/MWh
- 11:15 – 11:30€223.24/MWh
- 13:15 – 13:30€223.73/MWh
When is electricity most expensive?
The three most expensive intervals average €333.54/MWh, €70.53 above the day's average. The highest is €349.77/MWh at 15:45. The peak has typically been around 17:00 over the last seven days. It is the hour solar output has fallen but demand has not, which is when gas sets the price.
- 15:45 – 16:00€349.77/MWh
- 17:30 – 17:45€325.87/MWh
- 20:15 – 20:30€324.98/MWh
How Austria compares with the rest of Europe
Austria is averaging €263.01/MWh today against a European average of €234.12/MWh — €28.89 more expensive. The cheapest zone in Europe today is north-central Sweden (SE2) at €3.54/MWh, and the most expensive Ireland and Northern Ireland at €453.89. Both are the same market, priced differently because the lines between them are full.
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EPEX SPOT prices
The day-ahead price for Austria is set in the daily auction run by EPEX SPOT, not here. We read the result from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, so the figure on this page is the one that auction cleared.
About this market
Austria and Germany shared a single bidding zone until October 2018, when congestion on the border forced a split. The two zones have diverged since.
Method and source
- Source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
- Market: day-ahead auction. Zone: AT. Timezone: Europe/Vienna.
- The daily average is the arithmetic mean of every published interval of the local day, not weighted by volume.
- This is a wholesale price. Network charges, levies, taxes and supplier margin are not included, and a household tariff is typically several times higher.