EU Day-Ahead Electricity Prices - Cheapest Hours by Zone
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$2.00 / 1,000 zone-day of prices
EU Day-Ahead Electricity Prices - Cheapest Hours by Zone
Day-ahead wholesale electricity prices for 15 European bidding zones (Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Nordics...) with daily min/max/mean, negative-price slots and the cheapest and most expensive N-hour window. For EV charging, heat pumps, batteries and energy analysis.
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EU Day-Ahead Electricity Prices — Cheapest Hours by Zone
Get the day-ahead wholesale electricity price for European bidding zones, for tomorrow or any past period up to a year, with the cheapest and most expensive hours of each day already worked out.
Use it for
- Scheduling EV charging, heat pumps, pool pumps or batteries in the cheapest window
- Spotting negative-price hours
- Energy cost dashboards, research and price history exports to CSV, Excel or JSON
Supported bidding zones
DE-LU (Germany/Luxembourg), AT, FR, NL, BE, PL, CZ, CH, IT-North, DK1, DK2, SE4, NO2, HU, SI. Hourly and 15-minute prices are both handled (the European day-ahead market moved to 15-minute products on 2025-10-01).
Example input
{"biddingZones": ["DE-LU", "FR"], "startDate": "2026-10-21", "endDate": "2026-10-21", "windowHours": 3}
Leave the dates empty to get today and tomorrow. Tomorrow's prices are published around 13:00 CET.
Output
One dataset row per zone and local day:
{"biddingZone": "DE-LU", "timeZone": "Europe/Berlin", "unit": "EUR / MWh", "date": "2026-10-21","resolution_minutes": 15, "min": 41.2, "max": 168.9, "mean": 97.4, "negative_slots": 0,"cheapest_window": {"start": "2026-10-21T02:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-10-21T05:00:00+02:00", "average_price": 52.1},"priciest_window": {"start": "2026-10-21T17:45:00+02:00", "end": "2026-10-21T20:45:00+02:00", "average_price": 151.3},"prices": [{"start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+02:00", "price": 88.5}, "..."]}
Times are local to the zone. Turn off Include every price slot for summary rows only.
Pricing
Pay per result: one charge per zone and day returned. A day not yet published returns nothing and costs nothing.
Also available as an API
The same data is available per call over HTTP (x402, paid in USDC) and as an MCP tool for AI assistants at https://bess-x402.onrender.com.
Price data: Energy-Charts by Fraunhofer ISE, sourced from Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de, licensed CC BY 4.0. Window statistics are derived calculations. Not investment advice.