COOLING RUNNING COST 🇮🇳 India
What will cooling cost
per month?
Pick your AC, set your hours and your tariff — see the bill before you buy.
Your AC
Label size
Daily use
Hours a day8
Your tariff8₹/kWh
Your per-unit rate is on your electricity bill — most urban domestic slabs land around ₹6–9/kWh.
Cooling adds about₹1,056/month= ₹35 a day · a 6-month season ≈ ₹6,336 ·
reference only — why?
This uses the BEE energy label's annual figure spread over its 1,600 test hours (3-star basis) — same basis as the size page's pills. A brutal summer, a hotter city or a leaky room runs above it; mild use runs below. Weather, thermostat setting and your tariff slab move the real number.Where do these numbers come from?
watts × hours × your tariff. We estimate wattage from the label size you picked, using the rated draw of current 3-star models (window fixed-speed units draw more per ton than inverter splits). Your per-unit tariff is on your electricity bill — slabs differ by state and usage.
For the default 1.5-ton split, the reference draw is 880 kWh ÷ 1,600 BEE label hours = 550 W. At 8 hours a day and ₹8/kWh, that is about ₹1,056 per 30-day month. See the exact assumptions and their limits in the India methodology.