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Hotel Occupancy Calculator
Hotel occupancy is room nights sold divided by room nights available, as a percentage. The decision that quietly moves the number is whether out-of-service rooms count as available — this calculator lets you set that explicitly and shows the method it used.
Your numbers
Result
77.0%
Occupancy for the period
- Available room nights
- 1,440
- Unsold room nights
- 331
The method
occupancy = room nights sold ÷ (48 sellable rooms × 30 nights)
Occupancy measures rooms, not revenue. Two properties with identical occupancy can perform very differently, which is why it is worth reading alongside booking source mix rather than on its own.
Reading the number
Occupancy on its own is a half-answer
Occupancy counts rooms, not money. A property can push occupancy up by dropping rates to a point where it earns less than it did at a lower figure, and the occupancy line will look like an improvement.
Read alongside two other things, it becomes useful: what those rooms sold for, and which channels the bookings came through. A property at 74% occupancy with most business arriving directly is in a very different position from one at 74% paying commission on most of it.
The comparison that tells you most is your own property against the same period last year, calculated the same way both times — which is the argument for writing the method down.
Decide these once, then stay consistent
- Whether out-of-service rooms are excluded from available inventory
- Whether complimentary and house-use rooms count as sold
- Whether day-use bookings count as a room night
- Which date a stay is attributed to when it crosses a month end
About occupancy
- How is hotel occupancy calculated?
- Occupancy is room nights sold divided by room nights available, expressed as a percentage. Room nights available is the number of sellable rooms multiplied by the number of nights in the period.
- Should out-of-service rooms count as available?
- Both methods are used. Excluding them shows how well you sold what you could actually sell; including them shows how well you used the whole building. Neither is wrong — what matters is picking one and applying it consistently, because switching between them can move the figure by several points.
- Is occupancy the most important hotel metric?
- No. Occupancy measures rooms, not revenue, and it can be pushed up by discounting to a point where the property earns less. It is most useful read alongside what you sold those rooms for and where the bookings came from.
- What is a good occupancy rate?
- It depends so heavily on market, season and property type that a single benchmark would mislead. The more useful comparison is your own property against the same period last year, calculated the same way both times.
Technology for a kinder hospitality industry.
Stop calculating by hand
Occupancy Should Be a View, Not a Monthly Exercise.
In WingPMS, occupancy reads from the reservations and room records the property already runs on — with the method applied the same way every time.