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Living in the canton of Basel Stadt: electricity and health insurance 2027BS

Basel-Stadt (official name)

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H4 33.42 cents/kWh · 23.2%

H4

BS33.42 cents/kWh
Switzerland27.12 cents/kWh
Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Electricity tariff per provider and municipality in Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026

The rank is the cheapest provider. Electricity ranking · Border neighbours (8)

Health insurance 2027

  • Adults745.76 CHF/month
  • Young adults559.08 CHF/month
  • Children181.15 CHF/month
Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Health insurance premiums, opendata.swiss, as of 13.10.2026Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), premium regions under the FDHA Ordinance on Premium Regions, as of 13.10.2026

Electricity 2027

  • H433.42 cents/kWh
  • H43
  • Switzerland27.12 cents/kWh
Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Electricity tariff per provider and municipality in Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026

Questions

What does electricity cost in Basel Stadt?

The average of 3 municipalities with an H4 tariff is 33.42 cents/kWh. The Swiss average is 27.12 cents/kWh.

What does health insurance cost in Basel Stadt?

The canton has 1 premium region. Adults, standard model: 745.76 CHF/month.

Municipality profiles

Context

The comparisons for Basel Stadt follow this order.

Basel: 40.5% of residents are foreign nationals.

Profile H4 in Basel costs 33.42 cents/kWh. That is rank 2,044 of 2,108, the 97.0 percentile.

The premium in Basel is higher: now 745.76 CHF/month, previously 719.06 CHF/month, a difference of 3.7%.

Basel: the grid operator IWB Industrielle Werke Basel is now 33.42 cents/kWh, previously 33.25 cents/kWh (higher, 0.5%). Profile H4.

Basel is rank 1 of 3 for profile H4: 33.42 cents/kWh, the median is 33.42 cents/kWh (0.0%).