Average electric bill in Florida
A typical Florida household pays
$169a month · $2027 a year
That is 13% above the national average of $149, the 10th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 1,095 kilowatt hours a month at 15.17¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — August 2025
$222
Cheapest — March 2026
$133
The dearest month costs $89 more than the cheapest — 66% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. Florida runs about 3,400 cooling degree days a year, so the summer bill is where any efficiency gain shows up.
Why the bill is what it is
A bill is a rate multiplied by a quantity, and in Florida the amount of electricity used is doing most of the work. Comparing your own bill to this figure only tells you something once you know which of the two you could actually change — the rate is largely fixed, the quantity is not.
Heating and cooling are usually the largest movable part. Whether that means a heat pump, a more efficient air conditioner, or neither depends on Florida's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 10,770,427 residential accounts in Florida, from the US Energy Information Administration. They describe the state, not your house — square footage, insulation and what you keep the thermostat at move an individual bill a long way. See the Florida rate page for the underlying prices.