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What does a year of heating look like?

A heating bill is one number for the whole year. The year itself is more particular. Below is a typical year for five kinds of British home, simulated hour by hour under the published national method: 8,760 hours, marked wherever the heating runs. Pick the home most like yours and look at the shape of it.

In a typical year, this home's heating runs for

2,098 hours

24% of the 8,760 hours in the year

00:0012:0024:00JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Each column is one day, midnight at the top. A blue mark is an hour with the heating running. Swipe across to see the whole year.

54

days the heating never comes on

17

days in the longest unbroken summer break

See your home's own shape

These five are typical homes, and yours is not. Any real home can be read the same way, hour by hour, from public data, before anyone visits. Leave a postcode and we will send back your home's year.

Needs your name, an email for the reply, and a postcode.

We send exactly what you enter here: name, email, postcode. It is used only to compile the reading and reply (usually within a few days); we confirm the exact address with you by email. Indicative figures from public records; no one visits and nothing is measured.