Electricity (H4) 21.96 cents/kWh, 19.0% cheaper than the Swiss average
H4 price comparison
Electricity 2027
Standard product
Kantonales Elektrizitätswerk Nidwalden (EWN)
| 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 |
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| 28.74 cents/kWh≈ unchanged | 24.95 cents/kWh≈ unchanged | 21.91 cents/kWh▲ 1.2% | 21.96 cents/kWh≈ unchanged | 20.01 cents/kWh▼ 1.2% | 18.88 cents/kWh▲ 3.7% | 17.40 cents/kWh▼ 10.6% | 20.47 cents/kWh▼ 0.5% |
H4 breakdown
- Grid usage10.98 cents/kWh
- Energy6.08 cents/kWh
- Levies1.00 cents/kWh
- Grid surcharge2.30 cents/kWh
- Standing charge96 CHF/year
Health insurance 2027
- Adultsfrom 399.20 CHF/month▲ 3.6%
- Adults, on average517.57 CHF/month▲ 4.2%
- Young adultsfrom 291.40 CHF/month▲ 3.6%
- Young adults, on average386.92 CHF/month▲ 4.0%
- Childrenfrom 87.80 CHF/month▲ 3.5%
- Children, on average125.68 CHF/month▲ 4.4%
Premium region in Nidwalden: all municipalities
Population 2025
- Residents6,316
- Foreign share25.1%
- Ages 0–19958 · 15.2%
- Ages 20–643,807 · 60.3%
- Ages 65 and over1,551 · 24.6%
- Residents per km²441.7
The area used for density includes lakes.
Geography
- Altitude430–2,128 m
- Lakeyes
- Mountain municipalityno
Mountain municipality means the settlement sits at 1,000 m or higher.
Climate, 1991–2020 averages
- Temperature9.6 °C
- Annual precipitation1,115 mm
- Sunshine, share of possible hours42.5%
- Frost days78.1
- Days of 30 °C or more9.1
- Reference stationLuzern, 5.7 km
Context
For Hergiswil (NW), the comparisons look like this.
1,115 mm of precipitation and 42.5% relative sunshine go with 9.6 °C in Hergiswil (NW), period 1991-2020.
Per square kilometre, Hergiswil (NW) has 441.7 people, 6,316 in all.
Of working age in Hergiswil (NW): 60.3%, young: 15.2%, older: 24.6%.
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
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Questions
What do population, geography and climate say about Hergiswil (NW)?
1,115 mm of precipitation and 42.5% relative sunshine go with 9.6 °C in Hergiswil (NW), period 1991-2020. Per square kilometre, Hergiswil (NW) has 441.7 people, 6,316 in all. Of working age in Hergiswil (NW): 60.3%, young: 15.2%, older: 24.6%.
Border neighbours
- Hergiswil (NW) or Alpnach6,926 m · 18.4%
- Hergiswil (NW) or Horw6,779 m · 12.3%
- Hergiswil (NW) or Kriens2,584 m · 11.9%
- Hergiswil (NW) or Schwarzenberg3,650 m · 11.4%
Nearby municipalities
- Living in Stansstad2.4 km
- Living in Horw3.5 km
- Living in Ennetmoos5.1 km
- Living in Stans5.3 km
- Living in Kriens5.8 km
- Living in Alpnach5.9 km
- Living in Oberdorf (NW)6.5 km
- Living in Lucerne7.4 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