Los Angeles hotel rates, month by month
| Month | Avg. nightly rate | vs. Los Angeles average |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | $157 | -7% |
| Feb | $169 | 0% |
| Mar | $175 | +4% |
| Apr | $169 | 0% |
| May | $173 | +2% |
| Jun | $174 | +3% |
| Jul | $176 | +4% |
| Aug | $168 | -1% |
| Sep | $166 | -2% |
| Oct | $181 | +7% |
| Nov | $163 | -4% |
| Dec | $162 | -4% |
What the curve means for planners
A trip to Los Angeles costs close to the same in any month. Seasonal movement runs 13% floor to peak, which is minor by the standards of this dataset. January is still the technical low at $157 a night, about 7% under the $169 average, and October is the high at $181.
For planners, that stability is the useful part. A quote pulled in one month will still look about right in another, so pick dates around the work, the venue, and attendee schedules rather than the rate.
Why do hotel prices in Los Angeles, CA move this way?
What follows is our best theory for the curve above, not something the data proves.
Los Angeles barely moves, and scale is the likely reason: the market is so large and its demand so diverse that beach season, event season, and convention season all wash out in the average. The mild October peak and January dip are real but small. This is a market where the neighborhood matters more than the month.
How Los Angeles compares
At $169 a night, Los Angeles, CA ranks 16 of 50 major U.S. markets by average hotel rate, 14% above the $148 median of the 50 markets in this dataset.
| Similar-priced market | Avg. nightly rate | Rank of 50 |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston, SC | $171 | 15 |
| Denver, CO | $166 | 17 |
| New Orleans, LA | $173 | 13 |
Questions people ask
How much does a hotel cost in Los Angeles?
Hotels in Los Angeles, CA average $169 per night, based on 3.1M publicly available rates observed in searches on Engine between May 2024 and April 2026. These are par rates, meaning the cheapest public price offered at the time of each search, not negotiated or booked rates. Monthly averages range from $157 in January to $181 in October.
What is the cheapest month for hotels in Los Angeles?
January is the cheapest month for hotels in Los Angeles, CA, averaging $157 per night, which is 7% below the city's $169 average.
What is the most expensive month for hotels in Los Angeles?
October is the most expensive month for hotels in Los Angeles, CA, averaging $181 per night, 7% above the city's $169 average.
When should I book a hotel in Los Angeles?
The rates on this page are advance-purchase public rates, observed in searches made 10 to 180 days before check-in, so the bigger lever is which month you stay rather than how far ahead you book. For Los Angeles, CA, that means aiming for January and avoiding October when dates are flexible. Our full study, Every City Has a Season, covers how timing plays out across all 50 markets.
This page is one market from a 50-city study of how hotel prices move through the year.
How we did this
The figures on this page come from the 128,536,941 hotel prices that business travelers saw when searching on Engine, a platform companies use to book work trips, across 50 U.S. markets over roughly two years (May 2024 to April 2026).
What we measured. Every data point is a par rate, meaning the cheapest publicly available nightly rate a hotel offered at the moment of a live search. These are the prices companies see while planning a trip, not Engine's negotiated rates and not the prices ultimately booked. Real corporate rates typically sit below what is shown here.
Whose trips we looked at. We focused on planned travel and included only searches made 10 to 180 days before check-in, limited to business accounts, with internal, test, and promotional activity excluded.
A few caveats. These are advertised rates, not final booked prices. Monthly figures pool multiple years to smooth year-to-year noise, so an unusually large one-off event can occasionally push a single city-month higher than a typical year.
Data analysis by Jack Swiatoschik. Written by Alec Hollingsworth. Reviewed by Engine's data team.