Hungary — physical cross-border flows, 2026

Month by month

All borders together, with consumption for scale.

Month	Consumption, MWh	Physical exports			Physical imports			Average price, €/MWh	Difference €	Import ÷ consumption
Month	Consumption, MWh	MWh	€/MWh	€	MWh	€/MWh	€	Average price, €/MWh	Difference €	Import ÷ consumption
January	4,694,607	627,670	141.56	88,852,832	2,191,355	154.73	339,070,377	150.41	−250,217,545	46.7%
February	3,876,678	498,568	110.75	55,218,881	1,706,166	118.64	202,419,977	113.29	−147,201,097	44.0%
March	3,750,668	753,251	88.94	66,996,738	1,591,469	135.06	214,945,144	117.40	−147,948,407	42.4%
April	3,220,652	1,281,827	64.07	82,133,045	1,699,462	112.61	191,369,511	96.55	−109,236,467	52.8%
May	3,117,766	971,747	57.39	55,768,275	1,562,383	120.36	188,049,462	106.51	−132,281,187	50.1%
June	3,355,612	1,027,059	87.56	89,927,520	1,447,314	137.36	198,803,365	124.67	−108,875,845	43.1%
July	3,416,339	1,238,060	99.32	122,959,110	1,909,292	134.78	257,329,610	122.35	−134,370,501	55.9%
August	3,406,644	867,377	124.71	108,170,030	1,982,250	166.48	330,009,844	152.17	−221,839,814	58.2%
September95.3% of hours	3,118,420	1,000,668	143.61	143,702,750	1,621,223	195.78	317,409,660	179.15	−173,706,910	52.0%
October89.5% of hours	3,165,886	942,473	209.82	197,754,488	1,866,808	248.89	464,629,349	240.78	−266,874,861	59.0%
Total	35,123,273	9,208,701	109.84	1,011,483,669	17,577,721	153.83	2,704,036,301	139.63	−1,692,552,632	50.0%

Consumption is measured separately, as the hourly average power summed over the month — not by adding up readings, since sources publish at different rates. The last column puts imports next to it for scale; it is not a dependency figure, because part of what enters passes straight through to another neighbour.

Where the difference comes from

1,692,552,632 € for 8,369,020 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 202.24 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 139.63.

Energy that stayed, at the month's average price 1,168,582,340 69.0%
What came in arrived above that average 249,625,355 14.7%
What went out left below it 274,344,937 16.2%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 523,970,292 € together — come not from how much moved but from when: cheap hours to sell in, expensive hours to buy in. That is the price of a timing mismatch, not a loss.

Official validation

The measured physical flow, checked against ANRE's published commercial trade.

Month	Physical net, MWh	Commercial net, MWh	Difference, MWh	Status
January	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
February	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
March	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
April	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
May	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
June	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
July	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
August	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
September	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
October	—	—	—	AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA

Gross volumes differ by design: the official indicators include transits, and a transit is counted once entering and once leaving, while a physical border sees it only once. Net figures converge, because transits cancel out — which is why the comparison is made on the net.

The percentage relates the difference to the month's commercial net. In a month with a small net, the same difference in MWh yields a larger percentage — which is why the difference is always shown in MWh as well.

ANRE publishes these exchanges as a physical balance in GWh. It publishes no import or export value and no average price per direction, so no money comparison is possible.

Physical cross-border flows and commercial electricity trades measure different phenomena. ANRE data is shown as an independent official benchmark and should not be interpreted as an exact reconciliation.