Electricity (H4) 32.15 cents/kWh, 18.6% more expensive than the Swiss average
H4 price comparison
Electricity 2027
Standard product
Licht- und Wasserwerk AG Kandersteg
| 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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| 38.48 cents/kWh≈ unchanged | 34.95 cents/kWh▼ 0.5% | 32.15 cents/kWh▼ 0.6% | 32.15 cents/kWh▼ 0.6% | 30.76 cents/kWh▼ 0.6% | 29.29 cents/kWh▼ 0.6% | 29.87 cents/kWh▼ 0.6% | 30.76 cents/kWh▼ 0.6% |
H4 breakdown
- Grid usage14.73 cents/kWh
- Energy13.23 cents/kWh
- Levies0.56 cents/kWh
- Grid surcharge2.30 cents/kWh
- Standing charge72 CHF/year
Health insurance 2027
- Adultsfrom 468.10 CHF/month▲ 4.6%
- Adults, on average594.69 CHF/month▲ 3.9%
- Young adultsfrom 341.80 CHF/month▲ 4.6%
- Young adults, on average443.76 CHF/month▲ 3.8%
- Childrenfrom 103 CHF/month▲ 4.6%
- Children, on average140.28 CHF/month▲ 3.6%
Premium region 3: all municipalities
Population 2025
- Residents1,298
- Foreign share23.0%
- Ages 0–19171 · 13.2%
- Ages 20–64728 · 56.1%
- Ages 65 and over399 · 30.7%
- Residents per km²9.7
Geography
- Altitude1,102–3,697 m
- Lakeno
- Mountain municipalityyes
A mountain municipality is one whose settlement reaches 1,000 m.
Climate, 1991–2020 averages
- Temperature5.6 °C
- Annual precipitation1,274 mm
- Sunshine, share of possible hours48.5%
- Frost days182
- Days of 30 °C or more0
- Reference stationBlatten, Lötschental, 9.8 km
Context
The comparisons for Kandersteg follow this order.
Profile H4 in Kandersteg costs 32.15 cents/kWh. That is rank 2,012 of 2,108, the 95.4 percentile.
Compared with the previous year, the price in Kandersteg is lower, from 32.33 cents/kWh to 32.15 cents/kWh (0.6%). The grid operator is Licht- und Wasserwerk AG Kandersteg, profile H4.
From 572.32 CHF/month to 594.69 CHF/month, the premium in Kandersteg changed (3.9%).
23.0% of the resident population of Kandersteg does not hold a Swiss passport.
Kandersteg: the reference station is Blatten, Lötschental, 9.8 km away.
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
Questions
What does electricity cost in Kandersteg in 2027?
Profile H4 in Kandersteg costs 32.15 cents/kWh. That is rank 2,012 of 2,108, the 95.4 percentile. Compared with the previous year, the price in Kandersteg is lower, from 32.33 cents/kWh to 32.15 cents/kWh (0.6%). The grid operator is Licht- und Wasserwerk AG Kandersteg, profile H4.
What does health insurance cost in Kandersteg?
From 572.32 CHF/month to 594.69 CHF/month, the premium in Kandersteg changed (3.9%).
What do population, geography and climate say about Kandersteg?
23.0% of the resident population of Kandersteg does not hold a Swiss passport. Kandersteg: the reference station is Blatten, Lötschental, 9.8 km away.
Border neighbours
- Kandersteg or Lauterbrunnen3,682 m · 34.4%
- Kandersteg or Leukerbad14,103 m · 27.0%
- Kandersteg or Frutigen1,859 m · 25.6%
- Kandersteg or Kandergrund9,339 m · 25.6%
- Kandersteg or Reichenbach im Kandertal7,942 m · 25.6%
- Kandersteg or Blatten7,797 m · 5.5%
- Kandersteg or Ferden3,049 m · 5.5%
- Kandersteg or Kippel803 m · 5.5%
- Kandersteg or Wiler (Lötschen)2,513 m · 5.5%
Nearby municipalities
- Living in Kandergrund5.8 km
- Living in Adelboden8.9 km
- Living in Frutigen10.6 km
- Living in Ferden13.0 km
- Living in Kippel13.0 km
- Living in Wiler (Lötschen)13.1 km
- Living in Leukerbad13.2 km
- Living in Blatten13.9 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