RevPAR calculator
Four numbers you already have — rooms, nights, room-nights sold, and room revenue — give you occupancy, ADR and RevPAR. Add what your OTAs charge and you also get the figure most calculators skip: what your RevPAR is worth after commission.
The short answer
RevPAR — revenue per available room — is your room revenue divided by the room-nights you had available (rooms × nights). It folds occupancy and rate into a single number, so a property that fills every room cheaply and one that sells half its rooms at twice the price can be compared directly. RevPAR is measured before distribution cost, so a hotel that books mostly through OTAs keeps noticeably less than its RevPAR suggests.
Your numbers
- OccupancyRoom-nights sold ÷ (rooms × nights)
- 65%
- ADR — average daily rateRoom revenue ÷ room-nights sold
- USD 119.66
- RevPARRoom revenue ÷ (rooms × nights)
- USD 77.78
RevPAR counts revenue before the OTAs take their cut. Add your OTA share above to see what’s left after commission.
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How to calculate RevPAR, ADR and occupancy
A worked example for a 12-room property that sold 234 room-nights over 30 nights and took USD 28,000 in room revenue — so it had 360 available room-nights in the period.
The last two rows are the same calculation from two directions — RevPAR always equals ADR multiplied by occupancy, which is why it is the one number that moves when either price or occupancy does.
The part RevPAR doesn't show you
RevPAR is a gross figure: it counts the revenue a room earned, not the revenue you kept after paying for the booking. For an independent property that difference is rarely small. Take the same example — USD 77.78 RevPAR — and say 55% of that revenue arrived through OTAs charging 17%. That is USD 2,618 of commission in the period, and it pulls RevPAR down to USD 70.51.
Nothing about the property changed — same rooms, same guests, same rate. The gap is purely the cost of the channel the booking came through. It is also the one lever that works without selling a single extra room-night: a booking that arrives through your own website carries no commission, so it lands in RevPAR and in what you actually bank at the same value.
RevPAR questions owners ask
- How do you calculate RevPAR?
- Divide the room revenue you earned in a period by the room-nights you had available in it — your room count multiplied by the number of nights. A 12-room property that took USD 28,000 over 30 nights had 360 available room-nights, so its RevPAR is 28,000 ÷ 360 = USD 77.78. You can also multiply ADR by occupancy: the two routes always give the same answer.
- What is the difference between ADR and RevPAR?
- ADR is the average rate of the rooms you actually sold, so it ignores the rooms that stayed empty. RevPAR spreads the same revenue across every room you had available, whether it sold or not — so it moves with both price and occupancy. ADR tells you what your sold rooms fetch; RevPAR tells you what your whole property earned per room.
- Is a higher RevPAR always better?
- Not on its own. RevPAR counts room revenue before the cost of getting the booking, so a property can lift RevPAR by pushing more stays through channels that charge 15–20% commission and end up with less money than before. Look at RevPAR alongside what each channel costs you — that is what the net-RevPAR line in the calculator above is for.
- What is a good RevPAR for a small hotel?
- There is no universal number — RevPAR depends entirely on your market, season, room count, and star level, so a figure that would be excellent in one town is poor in the next. The useful comparisons are against yourself (the same month last year, or the month before) and against genuinely comparable properties nearby. Treat any single benchmark figure quoted without your market attached as noise.
- Does RevPAR include OTA commission?
- No. Standard RevPAR uses gross room revenue, before commission, card fees or any other distribution cost. That is why two hotels with identical RevPAR can bank very different amounts: the one taking most bookings direct keeps close to the full figure, while a heavily OTA-reliant property loses 15–20% of every OTA booking off the top.
- How can an independent hotel improve RevPAR?
- There are only three levers: sell more room-nights, sell them at a better rate, or keep more of what each one earns. The third is usually the fastest for an independent property, because moving bookings from a commission channel to your own booking website raises what you keep per room-night without needing a single extra guest.
The terms behind the numbers
Keep more of every room-night
Turn more of your RevPAR into revenue you keep
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