Hotel Occupancy Rate Calculator

Work out hotel occupancy rate instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Hotel Occupancy Rate Calculator

Occupancy is room nights sold over room nights available. Reporting occupancy on saleable rooms — excluding rooms out of order for maintenance or renovation — shows the commercial team's true performance separately from the engineering department's.

Formulas

Occupancy

Occupancy % = Rooms sold / Rooms available x 100

Saleable occupancy

Saleable % = Rooms sold / (Rooms available - Out of order) x 100

Worked example

With the default values below, Hotel Occupancy Rate Calculator returns Occupancy rate of 80.00%. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Room nights sold: 2,480
Room nights available: 3,100
Room nights out of order: 60
Previous period occupancy: 76

Results

Occupancy rate: 80.00%
Occupancy of saleable rooms: 81.58%
Unsold room nights: 620
Change from the previous period: 4.00%

Step by step

1Values used
2Occupancy
3Saleable occupancy
4Occupancy rate= 80.00
5Occupancy of saleable rooms= 81.58
6Unsold room nights= 620
7Change from the previous period= 4.00

Assumptions and limits

The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or fees or charges into account.
Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which figure should be reported externally?

Occupancy on total available rooms, since that is the industry standard and what benchmarking services use.

Is higher occupancy always better?

No. Occupancy driven by heavy discounting can reduce RevPAR. Occupancy and rate must be judged together.