I`d like to know how much heating costs you in winter, if it is consistently below zero in your area and you live in an apartment (as heating a house is more expensive, and I`d like to compare my own costs for a 60m2 apartment). You can also mention if you keep it at a comfortable temperature or just warm enough not to freeze. Thanks!
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It’s somewhere between 100-200 eur/month for a 180m^2 house in the winter where temps are 0 to -10 C
0€… I have a combination of a heating pump and solar power panels.
I have annual net metering and as I produce more energy than I burn, my electricity and heating costs are essentially 0€. I do have to pay monthly electricity network fees (cca 20€ on average).
The ROI (Return on Invest) on the pump and panels is roughly 7 years.
Vilnius, Lithuania.
A+ energy class appartment, 30-40 eur/month. It is pretty warm inside, I can stay with t-shirt
We have a combined electricity cost but it’s mainly heating during the winter.
230m2 30 year old house in northern norway. About €250-€350/month.Keeping most rooms (bedrooms have no heating) at 21c.
Heating is included in the rent and the building is connected to district heating. This is extremely common in Sweden.
I keep it at around 22C during the day and 18-19C at night.
I’ve just paid cca. 65 € for a roughly 100 m² house in Hungary based on real consumption. The temperature inside is around 23 °C vs. -5 to -15 °C outside.
Apartment of 55m2 in Copenhagen, Denmark – 500dkk monthly (around 66e) acconto. This means we pay fixed amount, and then once a year they will check consumption and either you need to pay extra (if you used more than this amount) or they will give you back (if you havent used as much heating as you paid). It’s a newly built apartment with really good isolation. We keep it on 3/5 and never turn on heating floors in the bathroom (bcs there is no need). When it’s not minus, like it was in December we keep it at 2/5.
Apartment of 38m2 in Belgrade, Serbia – it’s paid only in months when you are using heating, depends on the consumption around 30-45e. Bill for heating comes together with other points like garbage disposal, cold water etc. and in the winter total bill is usually aeound 70e.
I have both a oil central heating and an AC in the living room.
Oil for the central heating, being moderate I need ~500 L for the whole winter season. Thats ~600€
Using the AC in parallel, my monthly electricity bill goes from ~50€ to ~80€.
Thats for a 75m2 apartment.
House, 130m², temperatures in winter hovering around 0°C, we keep it comfortable, heating using old school gas: €2200 per year.
Eastern Finland.
Our house is heated by firewood and electric power via heatpump and radiators.
Electricity cost about 300 € per month on coldest perioid, I make my own firewoods, so they ain’t cost me a dime.
0 – comes with the house association fee. (also gives internet, TV, cleaning of hallways, and other stuff.)
Old building, 65m2, I can’t give you a number because every winter or heating season is different.
On average approximately 85€ every month so x 12.
but that’s only if you are not willing to check prices every 12 months, you can lower that by changing providers because they off sign up bonuses.
I don’t have the option to do that because unfortunately my landlord makes the contract.
65 m2 aparment, 46 €
But its usually warmer and the bill is around 35-37€
Its a little below comfortable
Bucharest, apartament, 72 m², heating with gas, 22°C by day and 20°C by night.
For 2025, the highest invoice was around 60€ (during winter) and the lowest was 6€ (during summer).
Now, for period of 15.12. 2025 – 15.01.2026 I expect to pay around 80€ (+/- 10€), with an estimated consumption of 130 m³ (1450 kWh) of gas. It was a month with more colder days.
~25 per month in a five-room apartment, modern buildings are insanely well insulated
Around 2000€ for the whole winter to heat two houses on one plot of land with a combined size of around 300m2. This is the last year I’ll be using the eco-pea coal furnace. Switching to pellet after the season. When it was -13C recently the temperatures at the house were around 17.5C. Now that it’s -3C they are more around 19C.
It was ~100€ last month, but I expect it to be higher for January because the temperatures are much colder. I use the city gas lines for heating, warm water and cooking (a tiny percentage is used for cooking because the boiler consumes much more gas than the gas stove). I live in a 140m2 house built in 2010, and it was well insulated and energy efficient at the time. Newer houses are probably even more efficient. Edit: I forgot to mention I like to keep it around 22C during the day (a bit warmer foe bathrooms, a bit colder for hallways and other less used spaces) and sleep with my windows half open during the night
I am just waiting to see someone from Portugal answer this 🤣
American here – just want to say these comments are shattering yet another piece of anti-European propaganda we’ve all been fed about how heating costs four-figure sums each month for most Europeans. Thank you guys for that. I visit often but I don’t often just ask locals what they pay for heat.
UK, a new-build and energy-efficient house of about 110 square metres. It’s hard to say how much it costs just for winter, as I pay a fixed amount (around €110) each month to cover electricity and gas. Even in the recent cold snap, my heating ran for less than 5 hours per day to keep the house at 20°.
I live in an renovated commie block flat with new windows and added insulation. I have 40m^(2) and I pay cca 35 EUR monthly year round for district heating. I heat to 21 – 22.
I paid around 750 euro last year. That is gas usage for the entire year, for heating and hot water.
190m2 bungalow. Thermostat set to 23 C day and night.
I am from the Netherlands and these comments are mindblowing to me. People here are not heating their houses above 16/18 degrees C because costs would quickly rise above ~300/400 per month. Contracts average over the whole year here, so you pay the same each month although actual heating cost would be like 600/800 in the winter and 0 in the summer.
Our average houses are built cheaply and are poorly isolated on average, built between the 30s and 70’s, we had our own gas ‘for cheap’. Now most people i visit have small, cold houses with mould problems in the wet rooms.
like 20 euros a month for heating.
A flat in lisbon.
Mild winters.
Town House, Denmark. I have a heat pump and 130m² house (Plus a couple of heated rooms in the basement. My electricity usage is pretty consistently around 6400kWh/year which amounts to dKr. 12500/year or ~€1680
Klaipėda, Lithuania. Just got my December heating bill for a 55 m² apartment in an older building (Soviet era block, partially renovated). It came out at 65€. I am expecting January to be closer to 80€ or 90€ since it has been properly cold over the past couple of weeks and it is currently -9°C outside.
I am not sure about the exact indoor temperature but I am sitting here in a t-shirt and shorts and feel perfectly comfortable. Heating in winter works out to about 2 to 4 percent of my monthly income so it is no big deal.
I live in an older house with thick masonry walls. The heated area is about 350 m², including domestic hot water.
In previous years, when heating with wood pellets, I needed around 8 tons per season. At today’s prices, that would be a bit over €3,500 per year, just for fuel.
I have since installed a rooftop solar power plant with net metering, along with a heat pump. My solar production exceeds my total electricity consumption, so in practice I only pay a fixed grid/network fee, which is roughly €30 per month.
Uk. Live in 130 year old Edwardian terrace (2 bedrooms). We pay £100 direct debit for gas and electricity . For the coldest months we are billed circa £160 and in the summer hardly anything. Never change the direct debit as it fluctuates between debit and credit during the year. We set it to 20c during the winter
Costs me a bit of time and exercise chopping up and storing the firewood
Private house 160 m^2. Natural gas used for heating and hot water, 150€ per month on yearly average. That’s about 200€ just for heating during the coldest months. Thermostat set at 22°C during the day, 19°C during the night.