Monthly market report
Hungary HU — May 2026
Day-ahead auction, 2,976 settlement periods, computed from the same data the API serves.
Average price
106.57 €/MWh
+10.1 vs previous month
Negative prices
50.5 hours
202 settlement periods below 0
Avg daily spread
280.02 €/MWh
the arbitrage opportunity, day by day
Volatility (σ)
83.8 €/MWh
Extremes
- Cheapest period
- -500 €/MWh May 1, 10:45 UTC
- Priciest period
- 406.66 €/MWh May 28, 18:45 UTC
Top spike days
- 2026-05-28max 406.66 €/MWh
- 2026-05-05max 388.56 €/MWh
- 2026-05-01max 368.7 €/MWh
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Data source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform (transparency.entsoe.eu). Data source: SMARD.de, Bundesnetzagentur | CC BY 4.0. Derived statistics are Voltcast own-IP output.