Hotel RevPAR Calculator

What RevPAR means (and what it doesn’t)

RevPAR (Revenue per Available Room) is a speedometer for room revenue. It combines two things you control every day: how much you charge (ADR) and how many rooms you sell (occupancy). It’s the fastest way to answer: “How much room revenue am I generating per room I could have sold?”

RevPAR does not include F&B, parking, spa, or other ancillary revenue. It also doesn’t measure profit. Two hotels can have the same RevPAR and very different cost structures. Use RevPAR to compare performance over time and to sanity-check pricing moves.

How to use this RevPAR calculator

• Start with ADR: use your expected (or actual) ADR for a date range. If you have multiple room types, use weighted ADR.
• Set occupancy: for future dates, use on-the-books occupancy (and update as pickup changes).
• Rooms available: decide how you treat out-of-order rooms and keep that method across periods, because systems and reports differ.
• Days in period: convert daily room revenue into a period projection. For month-to-date, use days elapsed; for monthly forecast, use days in month.

Tip: if you’re deciding between “raise rates” vs “push occupancy”, compare scenarios by changing ADR and occupancy and watching how RevPAR and room revenue move. This helps you pick the smallest action that achieves your revenue goal.

Common mistakes that distort RevPAR

Benchmarks & context

A “good” RevPAR depends on your market (city vs resort), seasonality, segment mix, and hotel class. The most reliable way to use RevPAR is: compare your property against the same dates last year, then cross-check against compset trends.

If RevPAR is flat but occupancy is up, ADR must have fallen by a matching amount. If RevPAR is up but occupancy is down, ADR rose by more than occupancy fell, so check whether fewer guests is a trade you want. Pair this with distribution data (OTA vs direct) to understand if you’re buying occupancy with margin.

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