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.
🌱 Generation mix, free	includeGenerationMix: renewable share, a green/yellow/red signal, load and generation by source (solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, gas, coal…) on every row; the greenest hours and the mix of the day in the summary.
🔌 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.
• Carbon-aware automation: run the heat pump, the dishwasher or the batch job when the grid is greenest, not only cheapest.

🚀 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/…"
}

Cheap and green — Germany with the renewable share and the generation by source on every hour:

{
  "zones": ["DE-LU"],
  "includeGenerationMix": true
}

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"
}

📊 Data Report · 31 Oct 2026: day-ahead power in 18 countries

One run, ENTSO-E day-ahead market, average price of 31 October 2026 in the bidding zone of each capital, the day after European gas crossed 100 €/MWh:

Country	Average €/MWh
Finland	77
Sweden	155
Norway	171
Portugal	207
Poland	210
Spain	218
France	238
Slovakia	248
Belgium	248
Netherlands	250
Czechia	251
Denmark	251
Germany	251
Austria	257
Italy	258
Bulgaria	281
Romania	282
Hungary	290

France: 238 €/MWh against 22 €/MWh on the same day of 2025 (×10.7). Same run, a year earlier: set dateFrom and dateTo to 2025-10-31.

Reproduce it (then widen the list):

{
  "zones": [
    "France",
    "Germany",
    "Spain",
    "Finland",
    "Hungary"
  ],
  "includeSummary": true,
  "includeGenerationMix": true
}

More reports like this one, twice a week: EuroScrape on LinkedIn.

📦 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,
  "peakAverageEurMwh": 155.24,
  "offPeakAverageEurMwh": 189.79,
  "source": "Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de via api.energy-charts.info (CC BY 4.0)"
}

With includeGenerationMix (real data, Germany, 23 Oct 2026 at 13:00 — a windy, sunny lunch hour: 88 % renewables, 110 € instead of the day's 226 € morning peak):

{
  "type": "price",
  "zone": "DE-LU",
  "timeCet": "2026-10-23T13:00",
  "priceEurMwh": 110.13,
  "renewableSharePct": 88.2,
  "solarSharePct": 19.1,
  "windSharePct": 52.2,
  "signal": "green",
  "loadMw": 64224,
  "residualLoadMw": 13217,
  "generationMw": { "windOnshore": 31397, "solar": 13678, "coal": 9625, "windOffshore": 5932, "gas": 3954, "biomass": 3788, "waste": 1364, "hydro": 1244, "oil": 299, "other": 156, "geothermal": 13 },
  "mixSource": "measured"
}

and the day summary adds averageRenewableSharePct (64.7 that day), greenestWindow (11:30–14:30 at 84.6 %), peakLoadMw with its time, generationMixPct (wind 48 %, coal 21.5 %, gas 9.5 %, solar 7.4 %…) and generationGwh per source.

💰 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, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy North, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovenia, 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.

Where does the generation mix come from? ENTSO-E transparency data served by the same energy-charts.info API, per country (a country's zones share one mix). Past days and today are measured; the hours not yet measured use the renewable-share forecast, and mixSource tells you which one you got. For the current day, the day summary combines both so that greenestWindow, averageRenewableSharePct and maxRenewableSharePct cover the whole day (mixSource: "measured + forecast", with measuredUntilCet and measuredSharePct saying how much of the day is measured); load and generation by source stay measured only. Nothing is charged for it.

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.
• Data Reports: twice a week, EuroScrape turns a run of one of its Actors into a 30-second data report (used-iPhone prices in 18 countries, electricity prices, Ryanair fares…) on LinkedIn. Follow the page to see what the data looks like.

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