EV charging in Vienna: 674 Wien Energie charging sites, district by district

In short: The City of Vienna’s open dataset lists 674 Wien Energie charging sites on public ground in all 23 districts, 16 of them for fast charging; Mariahilf has the most per square kilometre (11.7). According to the city, about 4,030 charging points of all operators are publicly or semi-publicly accessible in Vienna (dataset retrieved 12 October 2026; city figures as of October 2026). Kerbside posts have Type 2 sockets at 11 kW and you bring your own cable; fast chargers have CCS. Without a contract, Wien Energie charges 0.56 euros per kilowatt hour (as of 12 October 2026).

What the dataset shows — and what it does not

The city publishes its electric charging stations on public ground as open data, updated daily — the Wien Energie network. Here that comes to 674 charging sites in all 23 districts. Entries no more than 15 metres apart (60 metres at the same address) count as one site; how many cars can charge there at the same time is not something the dataset reliably says. So this page counts sites, not charging points.

It is not every charger in the city. The City of Vienna counts about 4,030 publicly and semi-publicly accessible charging points of all operators; in public space there are about 1,200 standard charging points of up to 22 kW and 42 fast-charging points in five fast-charging parks. Wien Energie itself speaks of more than 2,500 publicly accessible charging stations in the greater Vienna area and more than 900 new charging points in 2025 alone. The figures measure different things — charging points rather than sites, the greater area rather than the city, semi-public locations rather than only the street. Read together: the open dataset is a reliable slice, not the whole network.

City figures as of October 2026: City of Vienna, charging stations. Wien Energie: electrive.net, 17 January 2026.

Where the charging sites are

Charging sites by district

Ranked by density, not by count: the count mostly says how large a district is. Mariahilf has 11.7 charging sites per square kilometre, Neubau 10.6 and Alsergrund 10.1. In 3 of the 23 districts there is not even one per square kilometre — the sites there lie further apart. The most in total: Donaustadt with 74, also the largest district by area.

According to their name, 66 of the 674 sites lie in a car park, most of them in Donaustadt (15). Where Vienna’s public car parks are: Parking in Vienna.

Fast charging

16 Wien Energie sites are fast chargers — recognisable by the City’s label (HPC, Schnellladestation, Fast) or by at least 50 kW according to OpenStreetMap; 8 of them are in a car park. The City’s dataset has no output figures; where OpenStreetMap knows them, the map shows them. The City of Vienna names five fast-charging parks with 150 or 400 kW and 42 fast-charging points between them on public ground; according to a report by electrive.net, Wien Energie added four new fast-charging hubs with 28 charging points of up to 400 kW in 2025.

Other operators

The city’s dataset only knows Wien Energie. Other operators come from OpenStreetMap, the free map kept up by volunteers: 81 charging sites of other operators; 10 of them are for customers only; 31 have fast chargers (according to OpenStreetMap 50 kW or more, a fast-charging plug, or named as such). Wien Energie sites are taken from the city’s dataset only, so nothing counts twice. This addition is not complete, which is why the table lists it separately and the ranking does not use it.

Will my car fit?

The kerbside posts have Type 2 sockets and charge at 11 kW, two cars per post; you bring your own charging cable. At the fast chargers the cable is fixed to the post, with a CCS plug. Older cars are the ones that may not fit: older Nissan Leafs fast-charge only via CHAdeMO, a plug new fast chargers offer less and less, and many older plug-in hybrids charge on one phase only, at 3.7 to 7.2 kW — even at an 11 kW post.

How fast it goes is decided by the weakest link: post, cable or car. One example from the ADAC car test: a Kia EV3 with a 58 kWh battery charged from 10 to 80 per cent in 29 minutes at a fast charger; at an 11 kW wallbox it needs about six hours for a full charge.

Paying and parking

Without a contract, you pay at Wien Energie stations by QR code and credit card, currently 0.56 euros per kilowatt hour. With a Wien Energie charging card, a kilowatt hour has cost between 0.36 and 0.43 euros since 1 October 2026, depending on the monthly fee — the same at a kerbside post and at a fast charger. Staying plugged in at a kerbside post for more than five hours costs 5 cents a minute in these tariffs, at most 25 euros; between 10 pm and 8 am that fee does not apply. This holds for contracts from 1 April 2026; prices as of 12 October 2026.

From 8 am to 10 pm, only electric cars that are actually charging may stand at Vienna’s charging bays. While charging, parking there is free; once the car is full, it has to go — the 15 minutes often mentioned are goodwill, not a right. Otherwise electric cars pay the normal fee in Vienna’s short-stay parking zone too.

Charging at home

In an owner-occupied flat, the other owners have been deemed to agree to a slow charging point at your own parking space since 2022 if, properly notified, they do not object in writing within two months (§ 16 (5) WEG); in building procedures since 15 July 2026, new residential buildings with more than three parking spaces have to pre-wire half of them, fit the rest with conduits and install at least one charging point. According to the explanatory notes to the law, 5.5 kW is slow charging in any case, 11 kW probably no longer. Tenants do not have this shortcut: they have to notify the landlord of the wallbox; if the landlord does not refuse within two months, consent is deemed given (where the Tenancy Act applies in full).

The federal funding for private wallboxes (“E-Mobilität für Private 2025”) is exhausted and has ended; Vienna adds up to 500 euros per charging point only as part of a funded building renovation (Sockel- or Totalsanierung) (as of October 2026). The same lines, with their date, are in the Azima report for an address, under funding and rules.

Sources: plugs, output and two cars per post City of Vienna press release, 19 February 2026 and EU Regulation 2023/1804 (AFIR); cable Wien Energie; CHAdeMO ADAC, 7 August 2025; plug-in hybrids ÖAMTC, 2019; charging time ADAC car test Kia EV3, May 2025; prices Wien Energie price sheet from 1 October 2026 and Tanke tariffs, retrieved 12 October 2026; parking City of Vienna, short-stay parking zone and VwGH Ra 2022/02/0112; at home § 16 WEG, explanatory notes to the 2022 WEG amendment, § 9 MRG, § 6 Vienna Garages Act, Climate and Energy Fund, Vienna renovation ordinance 2024, § 15. A summary with sources, not legal advice.

And at your address?

The address card names the nearest charging site when it is at most ten minutes away on foot, with output and plug where they are known — further away it deliberately shows nothing. On the map, all charging sites can be switched on as a layer.

Before you buy a flat, the charging point round the corner is one question and what the viewing cannot show is another: sun per room in December, summer heat and noise at the facade.

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Sources: Wien Energie charging sites from the City of Vienna dataset “Electric charging stations on public ground in Vienna” (data.gv.at, CC BY 4.0, updated daily, retrieved 12 October 2026); other operators from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); district boundaries: City of Vienna, CC BY 4.0. Overall figures: City of Vienna, charging stations, as of October 2026. Wien Energie 2025: electrive.net, 17 January 2026. Plugs, prices, parking and charging at home: sources at the end of those sections.