Monthly running costs of a flat in Albania
What a flat actually costs to keep per month: electricity at the 2026 household tariff, water and sewerage at your city's rates, the municipal waste tax, internet, the building fee and insurance. Pick the city, the floor area, the number of people and the season; heating and cooling with an inverter air conditioner are what move the bill.
Monthly running costs
Seven cities, each with its own water and waste tariffs. The winter and summer figures include heating or cooling with an inverter air conditioner, 8 hours a day.
- Electricity
- €35
- Water and sewerage
- €12
- Waste tax
- €3
- Internet
- €18
- Building fee
- €16
- Home insurance
- €6
- AC service
- €5
313 kWh of electricity in the month
This municipality has not published its 2026 waste package, so that line is an estimate by analogy.
Estimates from published 2026 tariffs and typical consumption, converted at 92.02 lek to the euro (Bank of Albania fixing). Your building's fee, your internet plan and your own consumption can differ; resort complexes charge a far higher building fee.
How it is calculated
- Electricity
- 10.2 lek per kWh with VAT up to 700 kWh a month; a month over the threshold is billed entirely at 11.4 lek per kWh (ERE decision 322 of 15.12.2025, in force through 2026).
- Water and sewerage
- The city's ERRU-approved household tariff per m³ for water and sewerage, plus the fixed monthly service fee. Consumption counts 120 litres per person per day. Golem, Qerret and Mali i Robit are billed by the Kavajë water utility, not by Durrës's.
- Waste tax
- The municipality's annual household cleaning tariff, divided by 12. Tirana, Vlorë and Sarandë have published 2026 packages; for the other cities the calculator uses an estimate by analogy and says so.
- Internet
- The median advertised fibre plan, 1,690 lek a month.
- Building fee
- 1,500 lek a month for a post-1993 building with a lift, the median of published fees. Resort complexes on the coast charge several times more.
- Home insurance
- Home insurance at 1.2 EUR per m² per year, divided by 12.
- AC service
- One air conditioner serviced once a year, €65, divided by 12.
Sources: ERE electricity decision 322/2025, ERRU 2026 household water tariffs, municipal waste packages, and provider price lists. Lek amounts are converted at 92.02 lek to the euro, the Bank of Albania fixing the engine was built with. The same engine prices the running costs shown on our listing pages.
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