Electricity (H4) 28.51 cents/kWh, 5.1% more expensive than the Swiss average
H4 price comparison
Electricity 2027
Standard product
Regio Energie Solothurn
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34.78 cents/kWh▼ 4.7% | 31.28 cents/kWh▼ 5.9% | 28.39 cents/kWh▼ 7.0% | 28.51 cents/kWh▼ 7.0% | 26.99 cents/kWh▼ 7.6% | 26.70 cents/kWh▼ 8.6% | 26.88 cents/kWh▼ 8.2% | 27.14 cents/kWh▼ 7.6% |
H4 breakdown
- Grid usage11.32 cents/kWh
- Energy11.92 cents/kWh
- Levies1.40 cents/kWh
- Grid surcharge2.30 cents/kWh
- Standing charge84 CHF/year
Health insurance 2027
- Adultsfrom 503.80 CHF/month▲ 3.6%
- Adults, on average632.73 CHF/month▲ 4.8%
- Young adultsfrom 367.80 CHF/month▲ 6.5%
- Young adults, on average470.17 CHF/month▲ 4.9%
- Childrenfrom 110.80 CHF/month▲ 3.5%
- Children, on average150.74 CHF/month▲ 4.7%
Premium region in Solothurn: all municipalities
Population 2025
- Residents16,830
- Foreign share22.8%
- Ages 0–192,766 · 16.4%
- Ages 20–6410,373 · 61.6%
- Ages 65 and over3,691 · 21.9%
- Residents per km²2,679.9
Geography
- Altitude424–499 m
- Lakeno
- Mountain municipalityno
A mountain municipality is one whose settlement reaches 1,000 m.
Climate, 1991–2020 averages
- Temperature9.6 °C
- Annual precipitation1,197 mm
- Sunshine, share of possible hours40.1%
- Frost days99.6
- Days of 30 °C or more11
- Reference stationKoppigen, 11.5 km
Context
The comparisons for Solothurn follow this order.
Compared with the previous year, the price in Solothurn is lower, from 30.66 cents/kWh to 28.51 cents/kWh (7.0%). The grid operator is Regio Energie Solothurn, profile H4.
The premium in Solothurn is higher: now 632.73 CHF/month, previously 603.85 CHF/month, a difference of 4.8%.
Solothurn ranks 1,427 of 2,108 on profile H4, in the 67.7 percentile, at 28.51 cents/kWh.
Solothurn: 22.8% of residents are foreign nationals.
Solothurn: the reference station is Koppigen, 11.5 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
All municipalities in the canton Solothurn · Electricity ranking
Questions
What does electricity cost in Solothurn in 2027?
Compared with the previous year, the price in Solothurn is lower, from 30.66 cents/kWh to 28.51 cents/kWh (7.0%). The grid operator is Regio Energie Solothurn, profile H4. Solothurn ranks 1,427 of 2,108 on profile H4, in the 67.7 percentile, at 28.51 cents/kWh.
What does health insurance cost in Solothurn?
The premium in Solothurn is higher: now 632.73 CHF/month, previously 603.85 CHF/month, a difference of 4.8%.
What do population, geography and climate say about Solothurn?
Solothurn: 22.8% of residents are foreign nationals. Solothurn: the reference station is Koppigen, 11.5 km away.
Border neighbours
- Solothurn or Zuchwil1,461 m · 15.5%
- Solothurn or Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus1,461 m · 15.0%
- Solothurn or Biberist3,282 m · 13.6%
- Solothurn or Bellach2,176 m · 13.2%
- Solothurn or Rüttenen1,795 m · 13.2%
Nearby municipalities
- Living in Zuchwil1.7 km
- Living in Langendorf1.7 km
- Living in Rüttenen2.3 km
- Living in Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus2.3 km
- Living in Bellach2.9 km
- Living in Oberdorf (SO)3.0 km
- Living in Lüsslingen-Nennigkofen3.0 km
- Living in Riedholz3.4 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