Electricity (H4) 33.42 cents/kWh, 23.2% more expensive than the Swiss average
H4 price comparison
Electricity 2027
Standard product
IWB Industrielle Werke Basel
| 2-room flat2-rmH1 · 1,600 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 4-room flat4-rmH2 · 2,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 4-room flat with electric water heater4-rmH3 · 4,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room flat5-rmH4 · 4,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house5-rmH5 · 7,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house with electric heating5-rmH6 · 25,000 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house with heat pump5-rmH7 · 13,000 kWh/yearcents/kWh | large owner-occupied flatflatH8 · 7,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35.68 cents/kWh≈ unchanged | 34.29 cents/kWh▲ 0.5% | 31.34 cents/kWh▲ 0.6% | 33.42 cents/kWh▲ 0.5% | 31.13 cents/kWh▲ 0.6% | 26.95 cents/kWh▲ 0.6% | 28.67 cents/kWh▲ 0.6% | 32.94 cents/kWh▲ 0.5% |
H4 breakdown
- Grid usage11.23 cents/kWh
- Energy10.89 cents/kWh
- Levies7.79 cents/kWh
- Grid surcharge2.30 cents/kWh
- Standing chargeno standing charge
Health insurance 2027
- Adultsfrom 599 CHF/month▲ 4.0%
- Adults, on average745.76 CHF/month▲ 3.7%
- Young adultsfrom 431.50 CHF/month▲ 2.6%
- Young adults, on average559.08 CHF/month▲ 3.5%
- Childrenfrom 134.40 CHF/month▲ 1.4%
- Children, on average181.15 CHF/month▲ 3.8%
Premium region in Basel Stadt: all municipalities
Population 2025
- Residents180,097
- Foreign share40.5%
- Ages 0–1930,923 · 17.2%
- Ages 20–64115,151 · 63.9%
- Ages 65 and over34,023 · 18.9%
- Residents per km²7,551.2
Geography
- Altitude244–369 m
- Lakeno
- Mountain municipalityno
The rule: a settlement altitude of at least 1,000 m. That altitude is not shown as a figure.
Climate, 1991–2020 averages
- Temperature11.1 °C
- Annual precipitation816 mm
- Sunshine, share of possible hours42.1%
- Frost days59.8
- Days of 30 °C or more14.3
- Reference stationBasel / Binningen, 1.6 km
Context
Basel sits in the figures as follows.
For the period 1991-2020, Basel reads 42.1% relative sunshine, plus 11.1 °C and 816 mm of precipitation. A climate normal.
Per square kilometre, Basel has 7,551.2 people, 180,097 in all.
Basel: 17.2% are young, 63.9% are of working age and 18.9% are older.
Basel is not a mountain municipality. The highest point alone does not decide it.
Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss official commune register, as of 13.10.2026 Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Spatial divisions of Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026 Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D
All municipalities in the canton Basel Stadt · Electricity ranking
Questions
What do population, geography and climate say about Basel?
For the period 1991-2020, Basel reads 42.1% relative sunshine, plus 11.1 °C and 816 mm of precipitation. A climate normal. Per square kilometre, Basel has 7,551.2 people, 180,097 in all. Basel: 17.2% are young, 63.9% are of working age and 18.9% are older. Basel is not a mountain municipality. The highest point alone does not decide it.
Border neighbours
- Basel or Allschwil2,880 m · 7.1%
- Basel or Binningen3,799 m · 7.1%
- Basel or Birsfelden3,158 m · 7.1%
- Basel or Bottmingen1,602 m · 7.1%
- Basel or Muttenz295 m · 7.1%
- Basel or Münchenstein3,599 m · 7.1%
- Basel or Reinach (BL)418 m · 7.1%
Nearby municipalities
- Living in Birsfelden2.7 km
- Living in Binningen2.7 km
- Living in Allschwil4.1 km
- Living in Bottmingen4.2 km
- Living in Riehen4.4 km
- Living in Muttenz5.0 km
- Living in Münchenstein5.5 km
- Living in Oberwil (BL)5.5 km
Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D Straight-line distance between municipality centres.
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- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss official commune register, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Spatial divisions of Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), STATPOP 2025, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), geographic key figures, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Electricity tariff per provider and municipality in Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Consumption profiles, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Health insurance premiums, opendata.swiss, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), premium regions under the FDHA Ordinance on Premium Regions, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: MeteoSwiss, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Commune names with common translations, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 101), Art. 1, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D