It is of vital importance for any calculations of the energy budget of the upper atmosphere based on local and relatively short-time rocket-borne measurements during the Energy Budget Campaign to know the temporal development of energy input into the high-latitude ionosphere for some several hours before the rocket flights. Joule and particle heating constitute the largest energy inputs. For this reason, we have estimated the temporal development of Joule heating rates, integrated over the width of theauroral oval, on the basis of magnetic observations made by a meridional chain of four geomagnetic observatories and latitudinally averaged values of the north-south electric field components estimated from measurements made with one of the Stare radars. The latitude-integrated particle heating caused by energetic electrons in certain energy ranges in estimated on the basis of meridional photometer scans and cosmic noise absorption measurements made by a latitudinal chain of riometers. Our results indicate that the latitude integral of the Joule heating rate is larger than the combined latitude-integrated particle heating rates during quiet, moderate and disturbed nights. Furthermore, it is shown that during quiet and moderately disturbed nights auroral and 10 ke V particles play an equally important role in the generation of particle heating, while during disturbed nights electrons with energies of several 10 ke V cause about 10 times more particle heating than the auroral electrons with energies of less than 10 ke V.