RevPAR Calculator
Revenue per available room reconciled both ways — revenue over available nights, and ADR times occupancy — because the two must agree and the gap to ADR is the cost of empty nights.
RevPAR Calculator
Results recalculate instantly on every keystroke. Nothing you type is transmitted.
What this result does not account for
- Top-line only — excludes cleaning fees, ancillary revenue and every cost.
- Sensitive to the available-nights denominator, which is not standardised across platforms.
- Says nothing about capital employed or profitability.
In short: RevPAR is the bridge between rate and demand. 44,982 over 345 available nights is 130.3826, and 189.00 ADR at 68.9855% occupancy gives the identical figure. The 58.6174 gap to ADR is what empty nights cost.
Formula
RevPAR = room revenue ÷ available room-nights
RevPAR = ADR × occupancy (the same statement)
[('RevPAR', 'revenue per AVAILABLE night, empty ones included'), ('ADR', 'revenue per night SOLD'), ('occupancy', 'the bridge between the two'), ('RGI', 'your RevPAR ÷ competitor RevPAR × 100')]
Worked Example
- Divide room revenue by available room-nights.
- Separately compute ADR and occupancy.
- Multiply them — the answer must match.
- Read the ADR-to-RevPAR gap as the cost of vacancy.
- Index against a competitive set to place the result.
44,982 of room revenue across 345 available nights is a RevPAR of 130.3826. The other route gives 189.00 ADR × 68.9855% occupancy = 130.3826, identically. The 58.6174 gap between ADR and RevPAR is exactly 189.00 × 31.0145% vacancy. Against a competitive set at 142.00 the index is 91.82, a shortfall of 11.6174 per available night or 4,008.00 across the period.
Strengths & Limits Of This Model
Where this engine is strong
- Computes both formulas and shows they reconcile
- Expresses the ADR gap as the exact cost of vacancy
- Handles the zero-nights-sold case honestly
Where it stops
- Not a profit measure
- Denominator conventions vary
Practical Use Cases
Comparing properties of different sizes
Normalising revenue per available room.
Diagnosing a weak quarter
Splitting the cause into rate and occupancy.
Benchmarking against a comp set
Computing the revenue generation index.
Testing a pricing change
Checking whether a rate rise survived the occupancy loss.
Underwriting a hospitality asset
Using the standard institutional top-line metric.
Methodology & Editorial Standards
RevPAR is computed as revenue over available room-nights and independently as ADR multiplied by occupancy; both are displayed so the identity is visible rather than asserted. The ADR gap is shown as ADR times the vacancy rate, which is its exact algebraic value. Where no nights were sold the page declines to report an ADR rather than printing zero, because an average over an empty set is undefined, while RevPAR remains well defined.
Computation runs in IEEE-754 double precision at full internal precision; rounding to two decimal places occurs strictly at the display layer, so no cumulative drift enters the result. All monetary outputs use accounting presentation — grouped thousands, two decimals, negatives in parentheses — so figures can be transcribed directly into a model or working paper. Division-by-zero and out-of-domain inputs return an em-dash rather than a misleading number.
This engine was reconciled against an independent reference implementation and hand-verified for the worked example above before release. Our full five-stage review process is published on the About Us page.
Disclaimer. This calculator is provided for informational and modelling purposes only and does not constitute financial, tax, legal, medical, or engineering advice. Verify all figures with a qualified professional before acting on them.
RevPAR Calculator — 10 Expert FAQs
10 analyst-written answers to the questions practitioners actually ask — optimised for voice and answer-engine retrieval.
What is RevPAR?
Revenue per available room — total room revenue divided by the number of available room-nights, including the ones that went empty. It is the standard top-line metric in hospitality because it captures pricing and demand in a single number and normalises across properties of different sizes.
How do you calculate RevPAR?
Two equivalent ways: room revenue divided by available room-nights, or average daily rate multiplied by occupancy. They are algebraically the same statement and must produce the same answer. If they disagree, one of your denominators is wrong — usually available nights.
Is RevPAR always lower than ADR?
Lower or equal, never higher. ADR divides by nights sold and RevPAR by nights available, so they coincide only at one hundred per cent occupancy. The gap between them equals ADR multiplied by the vacancy rate, which is a precise measure of what empty nights cost you.
Can two properties have the same RevPAR?
Easily, and they can be completely different businesses. A high rate at modest occupancy and a low rate at high occupancy can produce identical RevPAR, but the second runs far more turnovers, carries higher operating costs, and has no room to discount in a downturn.
Does RevPAR include cleaning fees?
No. RevPAR is a rooms metric and covers nightly rate revenue only. Cleaning fees, resort fees, parking and food revenue all sit outside it. Hotels track TRevPAR for total revenue per available room when they want the fuller picture.
What is a revenue generation index?
Your RevPAR divided by the RevPAR of a competitive set, times one hundred. Above one hundred means you capture more than your fair share of the market's room revenue. It is read alongside the rate index and the occupancy penetration index, because those two decompose it.
How do I improve RevPAR?
By raising rate, raising occupancy, or both — but the two usually trade off. The useful discipline is to test whether a rate rise survives the occupancy it costs: if a ten per cent rate increase loses more than ten per cent of occupancy, RevPAR falls despite the stronger headline rate.
Does RevPAR measure profit?
Not at all. It is a top-line measure that ignores every cost and all the capital employed. Two properties with identical RevPAR can differ enormously in profit because of turnover frequency, staffing model, debt and management structure.
Should short-term rentals use RevPAR?
Yes, and it is more informative there than occupancy because hosts control both rate and availability. The one caution is the denominator: use nights you genuinely offered, and be consistent, because switching between available and calendar nights changes the answer materially.
What is GOPPAR?
Gross operating profit per available room — the same denominator applied to profit rather than revenue. It is the metric that answers what RevPAR cannot, and it is increasingly preferred by owners precisely because RevPAR can be bought with unprofitable discounting.