Occupancy tells you what share of your sellable nights actually got booked. Enter the nights in your period, any nights you blocked for yourself or maintenance, and the nights guests booked. You’ll get your occupancy rate, booked and unbooked nights, and how many extra nights it would take to reach a target, so you can compare months, properties or channels on the same basis.
Use any period: a month, a quarter or a year.
Occupancy measures how many of the nights you could have sold were actually booked. The key decision is what counts as “available”. This calculator removes blocked nights by default, because a night you closed for yourself was never for sale.
Calendar occupancy is shown for comparison. Some reports and PMS dashboards use it, which is why two tools can show different occupancy for the same month. Whichever you use, use it consistently.
Occupancy is half the story. A property can run 90% occupancy and still earn less than a neighbor at 65% with a higher rate. Pair it with your ADR and RevPAR.
Look at unbooked nights, not just the percentage. If most of your empty nights are single gaps between stays, the fix is usually calendar rules, not price cuts. The gap night calculator can help with those.
Compare like with like. Seasonality makes month-to-month comparisons noisy. Compare the same month year over year, or a rolling 90 days.
In a 30-night month with 4 nights blocked for maintenance and 19 nights booked, available nights are 26 and occupancy is 73.1%. Counting every night in the month, calendar occupancy would be 63.3%. To reach a 70% target you are already there; for 80% you would need 2 more booked nights.
Usually no. Owner stays and maintenance blocks were never available to guests, so including them understates how well the listing sells. Keep them out, but be consistent when comparing periods.
It depends on market, season, property type and your pricing strategy, so there isn’t a universal number. Track your own trend and compare it with ADR and RevPAR rather than chasing a benchmark.
Calculate average daily rate from accommodation revenue and booked nights.
Open tool →Revenue & PerformanceMeasure revenue per available night and compare periods fairly.
Open tool →Revenue & PerformanceSee monthly and annual profit, margin, RevPAR and the occupancy you need to break even.
Open tool →Pricing & CalendarDecide whether a gap between bookings is worth opening and at what price.
Open tool →Thrive Hosts reviews the calendar, pricing and minimum stays every week so occupancy and ADR move in the right direction together.
Results are based on the numbers you enter and are not a guarantee of future short-term rental performance.