EU Electricity Prices (Day-Ahead): All Zones & Cheap Hours

Tomorrow's electricity prices for 40+ European bidding zones — with the cheapest hours computed for you. Hourly (or native 15-minute) day-ahead spot prices from official market data, plus a free day summary per zone: the cheapest 3-hour window, negative-price intervals, min/max with their exact times.

• ⚡ Every European zone: France, Germany-Luxembourg, all 4 Swedish and 5 Norwegian zones, both Danish zones, all Italian zones, Iberia, the Baltics, the Balkans… Type a country name and get all its zones.
• 🕐 Cheapest window, of the length you need: 3 hours by default, 1 to 12 with windowHours — the single answer smart-home and EV owners actually want: when to charge, heat or run heavy loads.
• 🔔 Daily alerts: schedule it after the 13:00 CET auction and get tomorrow's summary on Telegram, Slack, Discord or a webhook (Home Assistant friendly) — with negative-price and spike alerts.
• 📜 History included: the same data goes back years, for backtesting a dynamic tariff or sizing a battery.

✨ Why this Actor

🌍 One input, a continent	"zones": ["all"] = every European bidding zone in one dataset, same format.
🧮 Both units	Every row carries priceEurMwh and priceCtKwh — no mental division when comparing with your tariff.
⏱️ Market-native resolution	The EU switched to 15-minute pricing; get hourly averages (default) or the raw quarter-hours.
🆓 Summaries free	Averages, extremes with times, cheapest/priciest windows (with start and end), hours of negative prices, daily spread.
🔌 Automation-ready	JSON/CSV via the Apify API, plus webhook pushes — drop it into Home Assistant, Node-RED, Make or n8n.

🎯 Use cases

• Smart home & EV: charge in the cheapest window every night, automatically.
• Small businesses on spot tariffs: shift consumption, get spike warnings before an expensive day.
• Energy analysts & journalists: compare zones, track negative-price frequency, pull years of history in one run.
• Solar & battery owners: spot the negative-price intervals when exporting costs you money.

🚀 Examples

Today and tomorrow for France and Germany:

{
  "zones": ["FR", "DE-LU"]
}

Tomorrow's cheap hours on Telegram, every day at 13:30 CET:

{
  "zones": ["France"],
  "monitorName": "fr-spot",
  "alertBelowEurMwh": 0,
  "telegramBotToken": "123456:ABC…",
  "telegramChatId": "123456789"
}

Tomorrow's cheapest 5 hours to charge an EV, pushed to Home Assistant:

{
  "zones": ["FR"],
  "windowHours": 5,
  "monitorName": "ev-charge",
  "webhookUrl": "https://your-home-assistant/api/webhook/…"
}

A year of 15-minute history for the whole Nordics:

{
  "zones": ["Norway", "Sweden", "Denmark", "FI"],
  "dateFrom": "2025-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-01",
  "resolution": "quarter"
}

📦 Output

A price row (real data):

{
  "type": "price",
  "zone": "FR",
  "zoneName": "France",
  "country": "France",
  "date": "2026-10-02",
  "timeCet": "2026-10-02T00:00",
  "timeUtc": "2026-10-01T22:00Z",
  "priceEurMwh": 176.41,
  "priceCtKwh": 17.641,
  "resolution": "hour"
}

The free day summary (real data — note the solar dip: the day averages 172 € but the early-afternoon window costs less than half the evening peak):

{
  "type": "daySummary",
  "zone": "FR",
  "zoneName": "France",
  "date": "2026-10-03",
  "marketResolution": "15min",
  "averageEurMwh": 172.52,
  "minEurMwh": 63.94,
  "minTimeCet": "2026-10-03T13:30",
  "maxEurMwh": 243.06,
  "maxTimeCet": "2026-10-03T18:45",
  "negativeQuarterHours": 0,
  "negativeHours": 0,
  "cheapestWindow": { "hours": 3, "startCet": "2026-10-03T12:15", "averageEurMwh": 81.95, "endCet": "2026-10-03T15:15" },
  "priciestWindow": { "hours": 3, "startCet": "2026-10-03T18:15", "averageEurMwh": 229.93, "endCet": "2026-10-03T21:15" },
  "cheapest3hWindow": { "startCet": "2026-10-03T12:15", "averageEurMwh": 81.95 },
  "priciest3hWindow": { "startCet": "2026-10-03T18:15", "averageEurMwh": 229.93 },
  "spreadEurMwh": 179.12,
  "source": "Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de via api.energy-charts.info (CC BY 4.0)"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price
Run start	$0.003
Price row (one hour, one zone)	$0.0002
Day summaries	free

A daily "France + Germany, today + tomorrow" run ≈ $0.02. A full year of hourly history for one zone ≈ $1.75. Apify subscribers pay less: −10% (Starter), −20% (Scale), −30% (Business). Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

❓ FAQ

When is tomorrow published? The day-ahead auction clears around 12:45 CET; prices are available shortly after 13:00 CET. Schedule your daily run at 13:30 CET and you'll always catch them.

Which time zone are the times in? timeCet is market time (CET/CEST) — the clock the European power market runs on — and timeUtc is included for your automations.

Why 15 minutes? European day-ahead markets moved from hourly to 15-minute products in 2025. The default output averages them into hourly rows; set resolution: "quarter" for the native data.

Are all zones and dates in 15 minutes? No. Dates before the market switched, and a few zones such as Switzerland, are hourly. marketResolution tells you which one you got, and the windows and negative-price durations are computed on real time either way.

Is this my home tariff? It's the wholesale day-ahead price — the basis of dynamic tariffs (Tibber, aWATTar, Octopus…). Your supplier adds taxes, grid fees and margin on top; the shape of the day (cheap and expensive hours) is what this data gives you.

Where does the data come from? Official market data (Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de) served by the Fraunhofer ISE energy-charts.info API, licence CC BY 4.0 — the source is credited in every summary. If that API is down, the prices of Germany-Luxembourg, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Czechia, Denmark (DK1, DK2), southern Norway (NO2) and southern Sweden (SE4) are read directly from SMARD, the same data at its origin; Spain and Portugal from OMIE, the Iberian market operator; Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from Elering, the Estonian grid operator; central Sweden (SE3) from Energinet. Each backup was checked hour by hour against a second source. The other zones wait for the API to come back.

Great Britain? GB left the EU day-ahead coupling; it's not in this dataset (the Actor tells you if you ask for it).

🔌 API, AI agents and integrations

• API: one call runs the Actor and returns the results, POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/euroscrape~eu-electricity-prices/run-sync-get-dataset-items (see the API tab for Python, JavaScript and cURL).
• AI agents (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=euroscrape/eu-electricity-prices to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client, and the Actor becomes a tool your agent can call.
• No-code automation: start runs and pass the results on with Apify's integrations for n8n, Make and Zapier, or with a webhook when a run ends.
• Exports: every result set downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, and can be sent to Google Sheets.

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