Country by country
Unplanned outages and customers off supply right now, with the trend over recent hours (up to three days). Only operators that publish an open feed are counted, so these are lower bounds.
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The largest outages
Ranked by customers affected. Times are your local time.
How long it has lasted24 hours →
How often the lights go out
Average minutes without power per customer per year from unplanned interruptions, 2014–2018, on a logarithmic scale. Countries on the live map are marked.
Source: CEER-ECRB 7th Benchmarking Report on the Quality of Supply, table A2 (all events, including storms). Definitions differ between countries; France is not in the table.
Power outage maps by country and town
A page for each country and for 3,539 towns and cities, in the local language, with the power cuts nearby, the outage history and where to report one.
Outside Europe
28 April 2025 · 12:33:27
The afternoon Spain and Portugal went dark
This is Spain's electricity demand over two days, in five-minute steps. At 12:30 the country was drawing 27 gigawatts. Five minutes later it was 1.8, almost all of it on the islands, which kept their power. The dotted line is the same Monday and Tuesday a week later.
Open the replaySince October 2026
Every outage, hour by hour
Replay the map with a timeline and see how many customers were off supply in each country, every hour since recording began.
Open the history2010–2018
How many minutes a year the lights go out
The energy regulators’ own figures for 32 countries, on a map that changes as you drag through the years.
Open the reliability mapPower outages in Europe: questions and answers
Is there a live map of power outages in Europe?
Yes. powercut.io shows current power cuts and planned outages across Europe on one map, from the outage feeds that 52 grid operators publish themselves. It covers 23 countries, updates every ten minutes, and is free to use without an account.
Which countries does the map cover?
Live outage data: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, IS, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Ukraine: the rolling-blackout schedules for Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk oblast (Yasno), Lviv oblast and Cherkasy oblast, group by group.Czechia, Greece, Hungary and Ireland are not on the map yet because their operators publish no open outage data; their country pages link to the operators' own maps. Outside Europe, the map also covers Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and United States.
How many people are without power in Europe right now?
8,774 customers were without power from 164 unplanned outages at 01:30 UTC. The real number is higher: some operators do not publish how many customers an outage affects, and many countries publish no data at all.
Where do I report a power cut?
To your network operator: the company that owns the cables in your area, which is often not the company you pay for electricity. Every country and town page on powercut lists the operators and links to their outage pages. In the UK you can call 105. If anyone is in danger, call 112. More
How often does the power go out in Europe?
From about 12 minutes a year per customer in Switzerland and 15 in Denmark and Germany to several hours in Poland and Romania, counting unplanned interruptions only, according to the national energy regulators (CEER, average of 2014 to 2018). More
What causes most power cuts?
Most are local faults in the low- and medium-voltage grid: cables cut during digging, storms and trees on overhead lines, lightning and failing equipment. Large blackouts such as the one in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025 are rare. More
Can I get a notification when the power goes out near me?
Yes. On the alerts page you choose a place and a radius, and powercut sends a notification to your phone or computer when an operator reports a new outage inside it, and again when the power is back. More