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Average Hotel Prices by City

$148 median per night

The median average nightly rate across 50 major U.S. markets, from 128,536,941 public rate observations on Engine, May 2024 to April 2026. These are par rates, the cheapest publicly available price at the time of each search, not negotiated or booked rates. Every city below links to a full month-by-month breakdown.

All 50 markets

New York NY $336 Jan Dec 64%
Boston MA $311 Jan Oct 64%
Washington, D.C. DC $252 Aug May 44%
Chicago IL $233 Jan Jun 60%
Palm Springs CA $229 Aug Mar 57%
Philadelphia PA $205 Dec May 37%
Seattle WA $204 Jan Jul 53%
San Diego CA $198 Dec Jul 47%
Detroit MI $193 Jan Oct 26%
Miami FL $191 Sep Feb 52%
Honolulu HI $189 Nov Jul 20%
Nashville TN $188 Jan Oct 44%
New Orleans LA $173 Aug Feb 46%
Tampa FL $173 Aug Feb 42%
Charleston SC $171 Jan May 41%
Los Angeles CA $169 Jan Oct 13%
Denver CO $166 Jan Jun 45%
San Francisco CA $165 Dec Mar 35%
Austin TX $161 Aug Oct 36%
Pittsburgh PA $158 Jan Jun 31%
Phoenix AZ $154 Aug Feb 61%
Cleveland OH $152 Jan Jul 32%
Las Vegas NV $151 Jun Oct 27%
St. Louis MO $151 Jan Jun 24%
Sacramento CA $150 Nov Jul 19%
Atlanta GA $146 Dec Jul 25%
Salt Lake City UT $138 Dec Jun 28%
Savannah GA $138 Jan Mar 22%
Kansas City MO $137 Jan Jun 24%
Houston TX $136 Dec Mar 34%
Norfolk VA $136 Jan Jul 56%
Baltimore MD $135 Jan Jun 22%
Raleigh-Durham NC $134 Jan Oct 20%
Louisville KY $132 Jan Sep 29%
Milwaukee WI $132 Dec Jul 47%
Minneapolis MN $132 Dec Jul 29%
Charlotte NC $131 Jan May 17%
Albuquerque NM $130 Jan Oct 38%
Indianapolis IN $128 Feb May 32%
Cincinnati OH $127 Dec Jul 33%
Dallas-Fort Worth TX $125 Dec Jun 19%
El Paso TX $124 Dec Jun 10%
Orlando FL $124 Aug Feb 33%
Portland OR $124 Jan Jul 25%
Columbus OH $123 Jan May 22%
Jacksonville FL $122 Sep Mar 22%
Memphis TN $116 Dec May 17%
Omaha NE $115 Dec Jun 48%
San Antonio TX $114 Jan Mar 20%
Oklahoma City OK $97 Dec Jun 22%

Click a column header to sort. Rates are whole-dollar averages.

The numbers above are one slice of a larger study on how hotel prices move through the year, and why.

How we did this

Every figure on these pages comes from the 128,536,941 hotel prices that business travelers saw when searching on Engine across 50 U.S. markets, May 2024 to April 2026. Each data point is a par rate: the cheapest publicly available nightly rate a hotel offered at the moment of a live search, made 10 to 180 days before check-in. These are advertised public rates, not Engine's negotiated rates and not booked prices.

Data analysis by Jack Swiatoschik. Written by Alec Hollingsworth. Reviewed by Engine's data team. Full methodology on the study page.