What is the average cost of an electric bill to cool a house to 76°F in Thailand?

Seems misunderstood , the byproduct of running air on is humidity control. 78 or 25 can be very nice or uncomfortable depending on how much humidity is in the house. 25 at 35% humidity is very nice whereas 25 at 65% humidity is very uncomfortable. Proper sizing and placement are critical. Too big of a system will cool it down quickly but would only remove little humidity. A little bit smaller and you can cool it down takes longer but the humidity is less. The comfort zone is 78-82 degrees if size is correct.

I know it's not what you want to hear but the best option is to acclimatise and enjoy the outdoors or you will forever be trapped indoors

If your going to be using many aircons and for long hours, if you have the financial means, then depending on roof, if it's facing South, then a 10Kw solar system would be the way to go. You need to do a lot of research, regarding how big a house you have. The internal volume of each room that you will have an Aircon installed in, to workout how many BTU's you will need for each Aircon. Then you'll need to guesstimate how many hours you think you'll have them running and how many at any one time. Think of it like lights in a room, you'll only have the lights on in any rooms your family is using at anyone time. Same with aircons.

How many aircons alone you have is not really the issue. It's how many you have, what BTU's they are and how many hours you have each individual Aircon running and also the temperature you have them set too.

Not to be rude, but this group is about Thailand.

As others have said, there are a lot of variables. Since you're building, you can be strategic about materials used, insulation, and the energy efficiency of the air con units. I live in a modern home in Chiang Mai that seems solidly constructed, but I can see that the windows are NOT energy efficient. No idea about insulation in the roof; I'm guessing there's not much. The air con units are quite new. We run one or two air cons at 26 degrees during school breaks. The highest my bill has been was in April of last year (hottest time of year, with 6 air purifiers running, and we were home all day 3 of the 4 weeks, and just evenings the other week). The bill was 7,500 baht. An average month is 3-4k baht, but that's with mostly just evening and weekend usage of the A/C.

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1578 baht

There is no average price... depends on so many variables. Our last bill was 2600 baht for 2 aircons, a 10 and 18 btu

need to know the following total volume of house in m3, what location, insulation factor, percent shading,

Solar panels to help maybe

I'm in a apartment , I admit that we are on the 3rd floor, so a bit higher than a condo, but we have never had to use the A/C . We open the terrace french windows & doors the other end, and get a wonderful breeze blow through. We use a very good floor standing fan especially at night & it's brilliant. So if you're going to build a house maybe you should consider the layout to try and get air to blow through.

There are too many variables to give an average number.

A really modern well-insulated house with carefully chosen window locations and modern well maintained AC units could run you around 5K baht/month.

An older uninsulated home with cheap, poorly placed windows and aging, poorly maintained AC's could run you 15K baht/month or even more.

Most people here never cool the entire house - living rooms during the day, occupied bedrooms at night. Single split systems, one per room is standard.

There will be a huge difference in energy consumption between new 5 star energy rated appliances through vs older appliances.

And of course the area of Thailand you choose will make a difference.

An average house in Thailand is a standard 1,500 square feet 2 storey 3 bedroom moo ban house. My wife and I rented one in Phuket that was about 5 years old (so pretty efficient appliances) with our son (so 2 bedrooms chilled overnight and living room during the day) and a typical electricity bill was 3k-5k per month.

If you are buying or building a house you can upgrade your appliances to 5 star, add solar and your bill can be close to zero.

Or you can buy a larger house with old appliances and your bill will likely be 15k per month or more.

As the Thais like to say, ‘up to you’.

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I paid 2200-4600 baht/month over past year for a with 4 mini split units, 3 12-15k btu units in bedrooms And 1 20k unit in living room. In cooler months run 2 of them for a few hours in evenings. In hotter months run at least 3 of them from 8-20 hours each. Home approx 1500sq ft. Temp set to 25 wherever I happen to be, 28 - 30C in other rooms occupied by natives

Another stupid tight assed question

I have ac running 247 in my condo bedroom and my electric bill is 2-2.4k or so a month and i also have my laptop plugged in 247

I wonder how much I’ll be paying for a 47 sqm condo for a/c now … it’s a newer building

I think after awhile you acclimatise to the heat and probably wont use as much air con as you envisage. For most of the year I don't use the air con at all these days, I find it too cold. I have a fan in each room and have the windows open. It is only during the burning season in Chiang Mai when the weather is also hot and I close all the windows and doors, that I use the air con. So for three months of the year my electric bill will be around the 1000-1500 baht a month rate, the rest of the year between 500-600 baht. This is for a single storey 3 bedroom concrete house with high ceilings

Depends how big the house is and how much you use the AC. Doh!

You are asking the wrong question - you should ask what size of solar system should I put on my roof to have the house cool all the time with a very low electricity bill. Thailand is solar heaven you can easily produce 20-40 kwh every day yearly average with a home solar system - depending on the size- that pays itself in 4 years or less. And if you really want to splash out get a backup system that will cover the time when the sun is down as well. Get a professional to calculate your usage and the size of solar system you need and have fun watching the electric meter spin backwards when you produce more than you use every day.

This is one night consume with a new air conditioner 26C almost 8 hours

The madness of it all

my wife has 2 aircons - one in our living room and 1 in the bedroom - we don't use the one in the living room much but in the bedroom we use it most of the night - monthly bill around 800 baht

What is 76 F

We have a three bedroom two bathroom plus swimming pool. When we aren't there (just pool pump) it's around 800 baht/month.

In the summer when we are there it's about 3000 baht. 5 AC but no more than three on at a time.

6,000 per month.

If Thailand is too hot to have to use Aircon at 24deg all day, maybe it's not a place for you

Mine is average 2000 baht a month, on all night in bedroom

Is the house wood, concrete, or block, on slab or piles, ceiling ht. 3 br, or more

In Mountains, Seaside, Isaan, % of glass, insul in roof ?

Answer these, can give you rough cost.

Elect now at about 3.9 baht /kwh, but with add'l tax. ( rumor govt will reduce tax, but incr bt/ kw. )

I have concrete, 2100 sg ft, stone floors, 10 ft ceiling .in Chiangmai, runs 1100/mo in winter, 4.k to 5k in summer.

Is family home during day, or just eve, kids after school ?

You need to supply more information so people can answer your question.

KInda depends.. Do you intend to leave your windows open all day and night, year round? Or only maybe in the spring time. It makes a difference.

You mean 24,5°

76, or about 24.5 C, is pretty cool, for an entire house. One bedroom, ok. I think you will find, that 26C works just fine and will be a big difference from outside. So, maybe work your way up over time. The cost is impacted by way too many factors (construction materials, shading, windows and glass doors numbers and sizes, sun exposure direction, heat island effects, etc. I would expect a monthly bill in the 10-20K range, depending on all the variables above. If you have a pool, more.

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Depends on walls and roof insulation you have 20 cm AAC blocks very little cost, you have cheap red bricks with plaster will cost you a lot

I have 2 storey 3 Air-conditioning

Most was baht for month

Now 4000 is average

Don't set too low.. 25 to 28

You save a fortune.

Electricity is not expensive in Thailand bud air conditioning is essential but only cool the rooms you use and keep the doors shut, I estimate I use about 1300baht a month per unit as a rough guess

so many variables to answer really... but I do wonder why you'd want to do that?

Depend of course on the size of the house - and many other things!

There are groups on Facebook that are dedicated to building in Thailand and everything associated. Visas here. Cheers

15k baht does it nicely. That’s at 7 baht per KWh

AC how many hours run every day?

How big is the house? How many air conditioners? You aren't giving much information.