Cost to run an air fryer in Georgia (July 2026 rates)
At 16.27¢ per kilowatt-hour — Georgia's average residential price in July 2026 — running an air fryer costs $20.50 a year. That is 11% less than the national average of $23.07. Georgia's residential rate is up 4.6% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $19.61 to $20.50 a year.
- Per hour
- 17.1¢
- Per day of use
- 6.8¢
- Per month
- $1.71
- Per year
- $20.50
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 Georgia compares
Georgia pays 16.27¢/kWh, the 25th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $2.57 less 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 16.09¢ | $1.69 | $20.27 |
| New Mexico | 16.09¢ | $1.69 | $20.27 |
| Georgia | 16.27¢ | $1.71 | $20.50 |
| Alabama | 16.40¢ | $1.72 | $20.66 |
| Indiana | 16.73¢ | $1.76 | $21.08 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an air fryer.
What else costs about the same in Georgia
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 Georgia?
- About $1.71 a month, assuming 1,500 W at a 70% duty cycle, 24 minutes a day, 300 days a year at 16.27¢/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?
- Georgia has the 25th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $23.07 a year.