How much does an air fryer cost per month in Connecticut?

About $2.54 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 24.16¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?

Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Connecticut has the 11th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $23.07 a year.

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Cost to run an air fryer in Connecticut (July 2026 rates)

At 24.16¢ per kilowatt-hour — Connecticut's average residential price in July 2026 — running an air fryer costs $30.44 a year. That is 32% more than the national average of $23.07. Connecticut's residential rate is down 12.5% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $34.78 to $30.44 a year.

Per hour: 25.4¢
Per day of use: 10.1¢
Per month: $2.54
Per year: $30.44

Assumption: 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year — 126 kWh a year. A 5-quart basket model, roughly 25 minutes of cooking a day. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Connecticut compares

Connecticut pays 24.16¢/kWh, the 11th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $7.37 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same air fryer costs $16.03 a year in Louisiana and $60.48 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $44.45 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Michigan	23.05¢	$2.42	$29.04
Vermont	23.75¢	$2.49	$29.92
Connecticut	24.16¢	$2.54	$30.44
New Jersey	25.19¢	$2.64	$31.74
District of Columbia	25.21¢	$2.65	$31.76

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an air fryer.

What else costs about the same in Connecticut

Washing machine$31.41 a year in CT Laptop$28.99 a year in CT Box fan$27.18 a year in CT

Cutting the number down

The saving is not the wattage, it is the volume: a small cavity reaches temperature in two minutes instead of twelve.
Cooking two batches back to back skips the second preheat entirely.

Questions

How much does an air fryer cost per month in Connecticut?: About $2.54 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 24.16¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an air fryer use?: Roughly 126 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 1.05 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Connecticut has the 11th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $23.07 a year.