Airbnb nightly rate calculator

Work backwards from the month you want. Give it a payout target, the occupancy you expect and your fees, and it returns the average nightly rate those three imply.

Your month

Monthly payout you want after the platform's cut

Occupancy you expect share of available nights sold

Nights available in the month take owner blocks out

Average nights per stay decides how often the fee lands

Cleaning fee assumed to cover its own cost

Host service fee the platform's percentage

Nothing is sent anywhere. The arithmetic runs in your browser and nothing is stored.

Required nightly rate

$172 average, before fees

18 nights sold, about 6.0 stays, $3,093 booked before the platform's cut.

Guest pays per night

$192

rate plus the fee, spread over the stay

Total for a 3-night stay

$575

the number a guest compares

If occupancy lands elsewhere

50% occupancy

$206

60% occupancy

$172

70% occupancy

$147

Same target, same fees, ten points of occupancy either way. This is the input worth being honest about.

Is that rate reachable where you are?

Arithmetic cannot tell you. What it can be checked against is the asking prices of comparable places for the same nights, read from their live pages on Booking.com and Agoda. If the rate you need sits far above the street, the target is the thing that has to move.

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How to calculate a nightly rate

The maths is one line: the rate you need is your payout target, grossed up for the platform's cut, divided by the nights you actually expect to sell. Everything else on this page is that line with its assumptions made visible.

The target is a payout, not a headline

Enter what you want to keep. The calculator grosses it up by the host service fee so the rate it returns is the one that survives the platform's cut.

Occupancy is the assumption doing all the work

Ten points of occupancy move the required rate more than any other input on this page. If your occupancy figure is a hope rather than a measurement, so is the rate.

The rate is a requirement, not a market price

This tells you what your target needs. Whether a guest will pay it is a different question, and the only place to answer it is the asking prices of comparable places on the same nights.

Two traps worth naming. Chasing a monthly target with one flat rate leaves money on the nights your city fills and empties the nights it does not — see seasonal pricing. And if the occupancy you typed in is the number you wish you had, run it through the occupancy calculator from your own calendar first.

Questions this raises

Why does the cleaning fee barely change the rate? Because it is treated as cost recovery, not income — it pays the cleaner. It shows up in what the guest pays per night, not in what you need to charge. If your fee does not cover the changeover, the shortfall is real and belongs in the rate; the cleaning fee calculator works that out.

Should I use one rate for the whole month? Almost nobody should. A flat rate is too high on the quiet midweek nights and too low on the nights the whole city fills. This page gives you the average you need to hit; the shape around that average is where the money is.

What occupancy should I put in? Your own, from your own calendar, for the same month last year if you have it. A number from a national average is a number about somebody else's listing.

Does this predict anything? No. It is arithmetic on your inputs. We do not forecast demand here or anywhere else in the product.

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First scan free, no card. Live asking prices from Booking.com and Agoda, night by night. We never forecast, and nothing we run changes your listing.

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