Average Hotel Price NYC (2026 Data)

A night in a New York City hotel cost $333.71¹ on average in 2025, a record, and the highest rate of any large US hotel market.² That one number hides a wide spread. Rooms in the Bronx rented for $129.16³ a night on average, while the hotels at the top of the market averaged $1,056.95⁴, and a night can cost 75%⁴ more in September than in January.

This page prices the New York night from every side: the average rate and its path since 2015, what the city's own hotel tax returns show, prices by borough and by price band, the month-by-month cycle, the first figures for 2026, and the taxes that turn a $333.71 rate into a bill of about $386. One surprise runs through it: the record rate is not a record once inflation is counted.

What a hotel room in New York City costs now

The standard measure of hotel prices is the average daily rate (ADR): room revenue divided by the number of room nights sold. It is what guests paid on average for one occupied room for one night, before sales tax, hotel occupancy tax, the nightly unit fees and anything bought during the stay.

The average daily rate in 2025

The New York City hotel average daily rate in 2025 was $333.71, up 4.7%¹ on 2024 and 17.1%⁴ above the $285 of 2019.⁵ Revenue per available room, which also counts the rooms left empty, reached $280.71¹. Both were the highest levels of the 25 largest US hotel markets.²

The price of a night with and without tax

Put as a plain price, the average hotel price per night in New York City in 2025 was $333.71 before taxes, or about $386.43⁴ once the taxes and flat fees described further down are added. The chart shows how far that is from the pandemic: in 2020 the average fell to $144¹, 49.5%⁴ below 2019, and it took until 2023 to pass the old level, at $301.22⁶.

Occupancy: full, but not as full as 2019

Prices rose while rooms were not quite as full as before the pandemic. Occupancy was 84.1%¹ in 2025, 3.4⁴ percentage points below the 87.5% of 2019, yet still the highest of any large US market for the third year running.¹ City hotels sold 38.1 million¹ room nights in 2025 from an average of about 124,000 rooms. A city whose hotels have few empty rooms helps explain why New York rates sit so far above the rest of the country.

Behind those rates sits a market that grew fast before the pandemic. The average number of rooms rose from 104,000⁵ in 2015 to 121,500 in 2019, and the number of room nights sold from 33.7 million to 38.8 million. Revenue per available room, the measure owners watch, combines the two: $249.38 in 2019, $63.50 in 2020 and $280.71 in 2025.¹

Prices since 2015: a record in dollars, not in value

In current dollars the 2025 rate is the highest on record.¹ Prices in the New York area, though, rose 32.6%⁴ between 2015 and 2025,⁷ faster than the 14.3%⁴ rise in the hotel rate. Restated in 2025 dollars, the 2019 rate was worth $354¹, so a 2025 room was 5.7% cheaper in real terms than in 2019,⁴ and the 2015 rate of $292 was worth $387.20⁴.

2019, the benchmark year

The average hotel price in NYC in 2019 was $285 a night, with rooms 87.5%⁵ full. It was the last normal year before the pandemic and the benchmark the recovery is still measured against.

2024, the step before the record

The average hotel price per night in New York in 2024 was about $318.73⁴, derived from the 4.7% rise to 2025,² after a 5.7%¹ increase on 2023. Occupancy that year was 84.2%¹.

So a guest paying $333.71 in 2025 paid more dollars than ever but a smaller slice of what those dollars buy than a guest in 2015 to 2019. The real rate has climbed back each year since the 2020 low of $175.86⁴ in 2025 dollars, and the gap to 2019 narrowed to about $20.

What the city's hotel tax returns show

Every hotel, motel, bed-and-breakfast and booking reseller in the five boroughs files a return for the hotel room occupancy tax, with the rent charged and the number of rooms rented. Divided out, those returns give a second price measure that covers every taxable room night, not a sample. In tax year 2025 the rent averaged $317.27⁴ per rented room night across 39.55 million³ room nights, about 95% of the benchmark rate.³

The tax-year average rose 35.4%⁴ from $234.31 in tax year 2019, faster than the benchmark rate; the shift away from cheap rooms shown in the price bands below is one visible reason. Tax year 2020, the first pandemic year, saw only 7.82 million rented room nights, 80.3%⁴ fewer than in tax year 2019, at an average of $116.42⁴.

The rise was not steady. Rent per night slipped in tax year 2019, collapsed in 2020, and then climbed in every year since, by $12.53⁴ in the latest year alone. The number of rooms rented tells the other half of the story.

Demand, measured in rented nights, is now back at the 2019 level, while the price per night is far above it. That combination, the same number of room nights at a price about a third higher, is what pushed the tax take to a record.

Hotel prices by borough

Location moves the price a long way. Manhattan hotels rented 68.8%⁴ of all room nights in tax year 2025 and charged the most.

Manhattan

The average hotel price per night in Manhattan in 2025 was $352.61³ (tax year 2025), $35.34 above the citywide average and 2.73⁴ times the Bronx figure of $129.16.

So how much is a hotel in Manhattan on an average night? About $353 before tax. Prices are not broken out by Manhattan neighborhood, so the average hotel price in Midtown Manhattan is best read from the Manhattan figure. For the Midtown submarkets only changes in revenue per available room are reported, not rates: in the first half of 2026 Midtown South grew the fastest of the main Manhattan submarkets, 7.1%¹⁰, and Midtown West the slowest, 3.9%.

Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx

The average hotel price per night in Brooklyn in 2025 was $248.00³, the highest outside Manhattan, ahead of Staten Island ($207.49) and Queens ($202.76). Rooms booked through online resellers, which cover all boroughs, averaged $258.14³ including the reseller's markup.

On the map the pattern is plain: the core borough is the most expensive, and the boroughs further from Midtown are cheaper, with Brooklyn the closest to Manhattan in price.³

Neighborhoods and the change since 2019

Borough is the finest level for which every rented night is counted, and it is how the city's tax returns group hotels, so the borough map above stands in for an NYC neighborhood average hotel price per night figure. Every borough became more expensive between tax years 2019 and 2025: Manhattan by 38.2%⁴, Brooklyn by 43.9%⁴, Queens by 44.5%⁴, the Bronx by 40.3%⁴ and Staten Island by 65.8%⁴. The number of taxpaying hotels in Manhattan fell from 599 to 582, in Brooklyn from 105 to 90 and in Queens from 130 to 119, while the Bronx and Staten Island gained taxpayers.

The tax returns count taxpayers, which can differ from buildings. Counted as business establishments, the city had 1,003¹ hotels in 2025, up from 883 in 2019, with the fastest growth in the Bronx and the only decline on Staten Island.

From budget rooms to luxury: the spread of prices

The tax returns also sort hotels by the average rent their rooms fetched. Almost half of all rented nights, 47.4%⁴, were at hotels averaging between $250 and $500 a night in tax year 2025. Room nights at hotels under $150 made up only 7.4%⁴, against 15.9%⁴ in tax year 2019.

Counted by hotels rather than by nights, the market looks more even: the 130 hotels in the $150-$200 band form the largest group, but on average each sells fewer room nights than the hotels charging more.³

How much is a cheap hotel in New York?

In tax year 2025 the 89³ hotels at the bottom band charged $77.86⁴ a night on average, and the 91 hotels in the $100-$150 band $126.25⁴. Rooms at those prices exist, but they are few: together they sold 7.4% of the city's room nights.

How much is a 5-star hotel in New York?

Hotels are not priced by star rating here, but the top price band comes close. The 52³ hotels whose rooms averaged more than $700 charged $1,056.95⁴ a night on average, 13.6 times the cheapest band,⁴ and they took 3.5%⁴ of room nights. Hotels at $500 and up took 8.7%⁴ of room nights in tax year 2025, against 2.5%⁴ in tax year 2019: the top of the market grew while the bottom shrank.

Demand held up best at the upper end. In 2025 upscale hotels were 87.5%¹¹ full and luxury hotels 82.2%, while midscale hotels fell to 76.7%. Part of the midscale and economy stock is not open to visitors at all: about 16,000¹ rooms have been used as emergency shelters for homeless people and asylum seekers, many of them in former midscale and economy hotels in the outer boroughs, and the city paid on average $159¹ per room for them in May 2026.

NYC hotel prices by month

New York hotel prices follow a strong yearly cycle. In 2019, the last full year before the pandemic for which monthly figures are public, the average rate ran from $204⁵ in January and February to $356⁵ in September. The fall stays expensive, and December climbs again to $348 with the holiday season.

The same shape appears in every earlier year. The table gives each month from 2015 to 2018, when September always topped $350⁵ and January and February always stayed close to $200-$220.

The pattern repeated every year from 2015 to 2019: averaged over those five years, September cost $361.00⁴ and January $209.80⁴, a gap of 72.1%⁴.

March vs November

Set the average hotel prices in NYC in March vs November side by side and March is lower: $250⁵ in 2019, $56⁴ below November's $306.

October

The average hotel price in New York in October was $336⁵ in 2019 and $357 in 2015. Averaged over 2015-2019 it was $342.20⁴, second only to September and just above December's $338.60.

NYC hotel occupancy by month

Occupancy moves less than price. In 2019 it ranged from 73.2%⁵ in January to 91.7%⁵ in October, and stayed near or above 90% from April to December. Summer is busy but not expensive: July and August hotels were about 90% full at rates around $254-$261, far below the fall.

The number of nights sold follows occupancy and the length of each month. Short February sold the fewest, and December, with its holiday visitors, the most.⁵

December and New Year's

The average hotel cost in NYC in December was $348⁵ in 2019, the highest after September.⁵

How much is a hotel in Times Square on New Year's?

Prices are not broken out for Times Square itself; across the city, the week of December 29, 2024 to January 4, 2025 averaged $340.79¹², 30.7%¹² above the comparable week a year before, partly a calendar effect, and the largest increase of any large US market.

The same cycle in the federal lodging allowance

The federal government sets a maximum lodging allowance for official travelers by season, and the New York City schedule tracks the same cycle. For October 2026 to September 2027 it allows $189¹³ a night in January and February and $358¹³ from September to December, 89.4%⁴ more. The 12-month average of $291.17⁴ sits about 13% below the 2025 market rate.

The allowance follows the market with a lag. It stayed at $244.50 on a 12-month average from fiscal year 2021 to 2023, rose to $256.67 in 2024 and to $277.00 in 2025, and now stands at $291.17, 10.9%⁴ above fiscal year 2015.¹⁴

2026 so far and the outlook

The first half of 2026

There is no full-year average hotel price per night in New York City in 2026 yet, but the first half points up. In Manhattan the average rate rose 6.3%¹⁰ in the first six months of 2026, with occupancy at 80.7%; applied to Manhattan's first half of 2025 ($310.51), that gives a Manhattan rate of about $330⁴ for January to June 2026 (our calculation), before the expensive fall.¹⁵ Then came the soccer World Cup and the national 250th-anniversary celebrations,¹ and in the week ending June 13, 2026, New York City hotels averaged $399.15¹⁶ a night, 17.1%¹⁶ more than a year earlier and the largest rise of the top 25 US markets.

The forecast

Industry forecasters expected the New York City hotel average daily rate in 2026 to grow 4.4%¹, which would put it near $348⁴, followed by only 0.5% in 2027.

The forecast below sees the rate rising every year to 2028, but much more slowly once the 2026 events are over, while the number of rooms grows by about 1% a year.¹

Supply is growing again, which may slow prices after 2026. New York City is expected to open 4,852¹ hotel rooms in 2026, the most of any US market, and 24 projects with 5,778 rooms are in development through 2028. Demand depends on visitors: the city welcomed 65.0 million¹⁷ in 2025, 2.4%⁴ short of the 66.6 million of 2019, and international visitors, who stay longer and spend more, made up only 12.5 million.¹

Taxes and fees on a New York hotel bill

How much is hotel tax in New York?

A New York City hotel room carries four charges on top of the rate: the combined state and city sales tax of 8.875%¹⁸, the city hotel room occupancy tax of 5.875%³, a city flat fee of $2 per room per night on rooms renting for $40 or more, and a state hotel unit fee of $1.50¹⁹ per room per night. The percentages add up to the total hotel tax rate in New York City: 14.75%⁴ of the rent, plus $3.50⁴ a night in flat fees. On the 2025 average rate of $333.71 that is $52.72⁴ a night, or 15.8%⁴ of the room rate. Long stays are taxed less: after 90¹⁹ consecutive days a guest owes no state sales tax, and after 180 days no city sales tax and no hotel room occupancy tax.³

The percentage part of the city tax has moved several times since it was first added, between 5% and 6% of the rent, with one short break at zero.³

The tax is old: the city first imposed it in 1970 as a flat fee, added a percentage in 1986, and has charged 5.875% since 2009, apart from 19 days at 5% in December 2013 and a three-month holiday in the summer of 2021 meant to bring visitors back.³ The current rate runs to November 30, 2027. With rates at a record, the tax raised a record $816.6 million³ in tax year 2025, 6.2%⁴ more than a year earlier.

Counting every tax hotels pay or collect, New York City received $2.4 billion¹ from the hotel industry in fiscal year 2025. Property tax was the largest part, 37.9%⁴, ahead of the hotel occupancy tax at 32.2%⁴.

Since February 21, 2026, hotels in the city must show the total price of a stay, including every mandatory fee, and may no longer add hidden destination or resort fees after the advertised rate.²⁰ The price a guest sees should now include every mandatory fee; taxes may still be added on top.¹⁹

What a stay in New York City costs

A week in the city

How much is a hotel in New York City for a trip? A week of seven nights at the 2025 average rate comes to $2,335.97⁴ before tax and about $2,705.01⁴ with taxes and flat fees.⁴ The same week can cost far less or far more depending on three choices:

1. When: in 2015-2019 a January night cost about $210 on average and a September night about $361, so the month alone moved the price by more than two-thirds.⁵
2. Where: a Bronx hotel averaged $129.16 and a Manhattan hotel $352.61 in tax year 2025.³
3. Which kind of hotel: room nights at hotels averaging under $150 are now only 7.4% of the market, so cheap rooms are scarce.³

The city spends on hotel rooms too. Its shelter contract with hotel owners paid on average $159¹ per hotel room in May 2026, for roughly 16,000 rooms that are therefore not available to visitors.¹ Visitors spent $13.9 billion¹ on lodging in 2025, up from $11.9 billion in 2019.

New York against other US cities

Among the 25 largest US hotel markets, New York City had the highest rate in 2025.² Its rate was 1.48⁴ times San Francisco's $225.82, 1.67⁴ times Las Vegas' $199.79 and 2.08⁴ times the US average of $160.54². The federal lodging allowance tells the same story for fiscal year 2027: New York City has the highest 12-month average of nine large cities, just ahead of Boston.¹³

On the federal allowance the closest city is Boston, $6.83 a night below New York City, while San Francisco is $20.25 below.¹³

Conclusions

1. The record rate is not a record in value. The 2025 average of $333.71 is the highest ever in dollars, but the 2019 rate was worth $354 in 2025 dollars, so New York hotels are still 5.7% cheaper in real terms than before the pandemic.⁴
2. The borough moves the price more than the year. Manhattan's $352.61 is 2.73 times the Bronx's $129.16, a gap far wider than any single year's change in the city average.³
3. The cheap end of the market has thinned out. Room nights at hotels under $150 fell from 15.9% to 7.4% of the total between tax years 2019 and 2025, while hotels at $500 and more grew from 2.5% to 8.7%; part of the budget stock became roughly 16,000 shelter rooms.¹
4. The calendar sets the price as much as the hotel. Before the pandemic a September night cost 72.1% more than a January night, and the 2026-2027 federal allowance still runs from $189 to $358 by season.¹³
5. The bill is about 16% higher than the rate. Taxes of 14.75% plus $3.50 a night add $52.72 to an average room, close to a sixth of the rate.⁴