Average Hotel Price in Los Angeles (2026 Data)

The average hotel price in Los Angeles, measured at the city's hotels with 50 or more rooms, was $219.53¹ a night in January-September 2026, before tax; the first half alone, at $220.04², was the highest first-half rate of the last four years. That number hides a spread of more than three to one: before the pandemic a room in Beverly Hills and on the Westside averaged $367.90³, while one in the Gateway Cities southeast of downtown averaged $108.78.

This page prices the Los Angeles night from every side: the latest rates, the path from 2017 through the pandemic, prices by area and by neighborhood, the yearly and weekly cycle, hotel classes from hostels to 5-star, the taxes that turn the rate into a bill, and what the city's hotel tax receipts reveal about 2025 and 2026. One surprise runs through it: the record rate is still below the pre-pandemic county rate once Los Angeles inflation is counted.

What a hotel room in Los Angeles 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 the hotel tax, the assessment and anything bought during the stay. The latest measured rate covers the hotels of the city's Tourism Marketing District, which takes in every lodging business with 50 or more rooms inside the City of Los Angeles.⁴

The Los Angeles hotel average daily rate in 2026

From January to September 2026 those hotels averaged $219.53¹ a night, 7.2%¹ more than the $204.77 of the same months of 2025. They were 74.5%¹ full, 1.8 points more than a year earlier, and sold 7.5 million¹ room nights; revenue per available room, which also counts the rooms left empty, rose 9.8%¹ to $163.52. The first half on its own averaged $220.04², 6.2%² more than in January-June 2025, at 73.1%² occupancy and 4.84 million² room nights sold. So the average hotel price per night in Los Angeles in 2026 is, so far, about $220 before tax at city hotels with 50 or more rooms in January-September; a full-year figure will follow only after the year closes.

The average hotel price per night in Los Angeles in 2025

In the first half of 2025 the same hotels averaged $207.29² a night with occupancy at 71.8%², the emptiest first half of the four. The year brought the January wildfires, and a sharp fall in international travel cut the city's hotel tax receipts for two fiscal years.⁷ Across the wider Los Angeles market, which also counts hotels outside the city, the summer quarter of 2025 averaged $194.12⁸ a night at 70.3%⁸ occupancy.

The Los Angeles hotel average daily rate in 2025 was therefore $207.29 in January-June at city hotels with 50 or more rooms and $194.12 in July-September across the wider Los Angeles market; no full-year figure is published.

The average hotel price per night in Los Angeles in 2024

In January-June 2024 the city's larger hotels averaged $201⁵, 3%⁵ less than in the first half of 2023, and occupancy slipped to 72.2%⁵. Summer 2024 was weak too: in the week of August 4-10, 2024, revenue per available room fell 12.2%⁹ to $161.66, the steepest drop among the 25 largest US hotel markets. The Los Angeles hotel average daily rate in 2024 for the first half, $201, is the low point of the four years.

How much is a hotel in Los Angeles with tax?

The rate is not the bill. A hotel in the City of Los Angeles adds the 14%⁷ transient occupancy tax. Hotels with 50 or more rooms also pay the district's 2%⁴ assessment, which reaches the guest only if the hotel passes it on, and must then be shown separately: up to 16%⁶ in all. On the January-September 2026 rate that is up to $35.12⁶ a night, for a total of $254.65⁶ if the assessment is passed on.

A week of seven nights costs $1,536.71⁶ before tax and up to $1,782.55⁶ with it. Meals and anything else bought during the stay are not part of these averages.

Before and after the pandemic

For the whole of Los Angeles County, full-year rates are public for the years around the pandemic. In 2018 the county's hotels averaged $180.17¹⁰ a night at 79.6%¹⁰ occupancy, and in 2019 $180.39³ at 79.7%, the last normal year. Then 2020 hit: occupancy fell to 48.9%¹¹ and the rate 23.0%¹¹ to $138.95, $41.44 less than in 2019.⁶

A record in dollars, not in value

Prices in the Los Angeles area rose 25.0%⁶ between 2019 and 2025.¹² Restated in January-September 2026 prices, the 2019 full-year county rate of $180.39 is worth $232.82⁶, so the January-September 2026 rate of $219.53 at city hotels with 50 or more rooms is 5.7%⁶ lower in real terms (in 2025 prices the 2019 rate is $225.51, and the first-half 2025 rate of $207.29 was $18.22⁶ below it). Two differences sit inside this comparison. The first is the hotels: the whole county against the city's larger hotels, and no published figure shows how far apart their rates were in 2019. The second is the months: a full year against January-September, a small gap, since the published 2019 January-September months averaged $181.88⁶, 0.8% above the full year.

The comparison is therefore indicative: it holds for these two measures, but the gap for a like-for-like room is not known.

Demand: back near 2019, but not above it

The county sold 30,182,000¹⁰ room nights in 2018, up from 29,221,000 in 2016, while ten new hotels raised the supply of rooms by 3.1% that year. Visitor numbers since then tell a story of recovery that is not yet complete: 50.7 million¹³ in 2019, 46.4 million in 2022 and 49.5 million¹⁴ in 2025, still 1.2 million⁶ short of 2019. International visitors numbered 6.4 million¹⁴ in 2025.

Hotel prices by area

Location moves the Los Angeles price further than any year. The county's hotels are grouped into ten areas, and in 2019 their average rates ran from $108.78³ in the Gateway Cities to $367.90³ in Beverly Hills and the Westside, 3.38⁶ times as much.

The expensive west and the cheaper east

The Westside, the beach towns of Santa Monica, Marina del Rey, Venice and Malibu ($319.31³), and Hollywood with West Hollywood ($237.95) all charged more than downtown ($217.14). The areas east and south of downtown, the San Gabriel Valley and the Gateway Cities, averaged about 60%⁶ of the county rate. Near the airport, rates were below the county average, $144.14³, but the hotels were the fullest of all.

Occupancy did not follow price. The airport hotels were 86.6%³ full in 2019, the beach towns 82.5%, while the cheap San Gabriel Valley hotels had the most empty rooms, at 72.5%³.

What the pandemic did to each area

In 2020 the expensive areas emptied fastest.¹¹ Downtown hotels were only 35.8%¹¹ full, the beach towns 39.6% and Hollywood 41.1%, while the Gateway Cities kept 56.2%. Rates fell everywhere, but by very different amounts: 25.6%¹¹ in the Pasadena area and only 9.5% in the Gateway Cities. Beverly Hills and the Westside still charged $298.17¹¹ on average in the worst year of the series.

Revenue per available room shows the damage in one number, because it combines the price with the empty rooms. In the Downtown core it fell from $171.27³ in 2019 to $62.31¹¹ in 2020, while in the Gateway Cities it fell only from $82.59 to $55.35. The cheaper areas held up best.¹¹

Where the rooms are

The dearest areas are among the smallest.³ Of the county's 105,393³ hotel rooms at the end of 2019, the largest group, 14,474³ or 13.7%, stood around the airport, followed by the downtown region and the San Fernando Valley. Beverly Hills and the Westside had 6,927 rooms and the Santa Monica beach area 6,479, so the most expensive rooms are also among the scarcest.

Neighborhood prices today

Area rates after 2021 are not public, but listed prices on a large booking site show a broadly similar map in October 2026, with exceptions such as Silver Lake east of Hollywood. Over the two weeks before October 24, 2026, weeknight rooms averaged $507¹⁵ in Century City and $337¹⁶ in Westwood, against $81¹⁷ in Northeast Los Angeles and $113¹⁸ in Van Nuys. These are prices found in searches, not rates paid, and they move from week to week.

How much is a hotel in Silver Lake?

Silver Lake is not a cheap place to stay: weeknight rooms averaged $419¹⁹ in those two weeks and weekend nights $656¹⁹, about five times the weeknight price in Northeast Los Angeles.¹⁹ Few hotels are listed there, so these averages swing widely from night to night and month to month.

Prices by month and day of the week

Los Angeles hotels follow a summer cycle. In 2019, the last year for which monthly county rates are public, the average ran from $164.90³ in December to $194.17³⁸ in July, 17.8%⁶ more. Of the published months, June to August were the dearest and the fullest, with occupancy of 84.1% to 85.7%; December and January were the cheapest and the emptiest.³⁹ February and April are missing from the published monthly figures.

The occupancy pattern is almost the same curve. Hotels were 71.6%³⁹ full in January and 85.7%³⁸ in July, so in summer guests pay more for rooms that are also harder to find, and in the quiet months both price and demand drop together.

The cycle differs by area

The beach towns swing the most: in 2019 the Santa Monica area averaged $283.67³ in December and $370.08⁴³ in August, 30.5%⁶ more. Downtown peaked in November and the Pasadena area in October, while the San Gabriel Valley barely moved, by 8.9%⁶ between its cheapest and its dearest month.

Listed prices by month in 2026

Booking-site prices for the coming months show a different shape, because they include the expensive rooms that sell less often. Their average ran from $256⁴⁷ for January stays to $354⁴⁷ for April, 38.3%⁶ more, with spring and October dearer than midsummer. The 12-month mean of these listed prices is about $308.1⁶, far above the $219.53 paid on average at city hotels with 50 or more rooms in January-September 2026. The hotel sets and the periods differ, but the gap shows why a quoted price is a poor guide to what the average guest pays.

The night of the stay matters too. Sunday nights listed at $263⁴⁷ on average, the cheapest, and Monday nights at $455⁴⁷, $192 more.

From hostels to 5-star hotels

Official rates are not split by star rating, so the class comparison rests on listed prices from the same booking site, averaged over the two weeks before October 24, 2026. A hostel bed listed at $44⁴⁸ a weeknight and a motel room at $117⁴⁹. At the top, 5-star hotels averaged $606⁵⁰ a weeknight, 3.26⁶ times a 3-star room.

The average hotel price per night in Los Angeles at a 3-star hotel

Three-star rooms averaged $186⁵¹ on weeknights and $227⁵¹ on Friday and Saturday nights, $41⁶ more. Their cheapest month to stay was May and their dearest July.⁵¹ Four-star rooms listed at the same $186 on weeknights but more than doubled on weekends, 2.11⁶ times as much, to $392⁵².

Luxury listings ran the other way: $677⁵⁵ on weeknights but $448⁵⁵ on weekends. Bed-and-breakfasts, at about $247, sit between 3-star hotels and the 5-star market.

Wildfires, the World Cup and the Olympics

Big events move Los Angeles prices for days, not years. In the week of February 16-22, 2025, a month after the wildfires, Los Angeles hotels posted the largest occupancy gain of the 25 largest US markets, 10.4%⁵⁶ to 74.8%, and revenue per available room rose 16.7% to $147.34. In the week of June 7-13, 2026, when the Los Angeles area hosted the USA vs Paraguay World Cup match at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, the average rate rose 13.7%⁵⁷ to $234.02⁵⁷, the second-largest lift of those markets.

The city's budget office expects the visitor economy to grow again through 2028-29, counting the 2026 World Cup, the 2027 Super Bowl and the 2028 Olympic Games, after hotel tax receipts declined for a second year in 2025-26 as international visitors stayed away.⁷ Its outlook has receipts from hotels and short-term rentals rising 3.1%⁷ in 2026-27 and 3.8%⁷ in 2027-28, the Olympic run-up, to $361.8 million⁷ by 2030-31, 18.3%⁶ above 2024-25. Those are forecasts of tax receipts, which follow prices and occupancy together, not forecasts of the room rate itself.

New rooms before the Games

Supply is growing into the event years. In the third quarter of 2025 about 2,100⁸ hotel rooms were under construction across 17 projects in the Los Angeles market, most of them upper-midscale and upscale hotels downtown, in Hollywood, around Burbank and Glendale and along the airport corridor.⁸ Meetings add a steady base: in 2025 the city's convention center hosted 19 citywide conventions that generated more than 209,000¹⁴ hotel room nights, and more than 470 other meetings another 254,000.¹⁴

Hotel taxes in Los Angeles

Guests in the City of Los Angeles pay a transient occupancy tax of 14%⁷ of the room rent on any stay of 30 days or less, in a hotel, a motel or a short-term rental. Hotels with 50 or more rooms add the Tourism Marketing District assessment of 2%⁴ of room revenue, which funds the city's tourism marketing and may rise to at most 3% during the 2025-2034 term. The assessment is levied on the hotel; it reaches the guest only if the hotel passes it on. The district expects about $37.8 million⁴ a year from it, which implies roughly $1.89 billion⁶ of room revenue at the larger city hotels.

The 2026 vote on the hotel tax

In June 2026 voters were asked to raise the tax from 14% to 16%⁵⁸ through 2028, the Olympic year, and to 15% after that. The increase failed: the City Council declared the measure rejected by a majority of the 553,726⁵⁹ votes cast.⁵⁹ A second measure, which applies the tax to the service charges and fees that online travel companies add when a hotel room is booked, passed with 57.67%⁶⁰ of the vote.⁵⁸ The rate on a Los Angeles room therefore stays at 14% going into the Olympic years.

What the hotel tax receipts show

Because the tax is a fixed share of every room night sold, its receipts trace hotel spending year by year, back much further than the published rates. The city's General Fund, which keeps 13 of the 14 points, collected $127.0 million⁶ in 2005-06 and $318.9 million⁶¹ at the pre-pandemic peak of 2018-19. In 2020-21 the receipts fell 65.4%⁶ below that peak, and in 2024-25 they were still 4.1%⁶ below it, at $305.8 million.

Most of it comes from hotels. Of the $305.8 million⁷ collected in 2024-25, hotels paid 89.1%⁶ and short-term rentals 10.9%⁶. Hotel receipts slipped in each year after 2023-24, to a revised $270.3 million⁷ for 2025-26.

Monthly receipts are lumpy, because they arrive in the month the hotel files, not the month of the stay. In 2024-25 they ranged from $15.3 million⁷ in February to $26.4 million⁷ in August; February receipts, which reflect the January stays, were 58.0%⁶ of August's.

Hotel tax across Los Angeles County

Each of the county's 88 cities sets its own rate. In 2023-24 they collected $741.5 million⁶ in transient occupancy tax, and the City of Los Angeles alone 45.3%⁶ of it: $335.8 million at the full 14%, more than the General Fund figure above because it includes the convention bureau's point and comes from the state's city finance reports.⁶² Santa Monica raised $65.9 million⁶², Beverly Hills $48.0 million and Long Beach $39.5 million: the beach and Westside cities, home to the county's priciest rooms, rank right behind it.³ Ten cities took 80.2%⁶ of the total.

The rate a guest pays depends on the city line. Inglewood charges the highest rate in the county, 15.5%⁶², and Santa Monica and Malibu 15%, while Burbank, Arcadia and Santa Clarita charge 10%. The lowest rates, 5%⁶², are in Huntington Park and Maywood.

Mapped across all 88 cities, the rates form a patchwork rather than a gradient: the coast and Inglewood charge the most, several inland cities 10%, and 15⁶ cities reported no rate for the year.⁶² Two hotels a few blocks apart can add different taxes to the same rate.

The other 87 cities recovered faster than the City of Los Angeles: in 2023-24 their collections were 17.8%⁶ above 2018-19, while the city's were 1.8%⁶ below. All 88 together were 8.1% above 2018-19, after a fall of 54.7%⁶ in 2020-21.⁶²

The federal lodging allowance in Los Angeles

The federal government caps what it reimburses official travelers for a night's lodging, and Los Angeles has two rates. For October 2026 to September 2027 the cap is $199⁶⁴ a night all year in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties, and $283⁶⁴ in Santa Monica, $84⁶ more. The Los Angeles cap has risen 44.2%⁶ since fiscal year 2015, when it was $138. It is a ceiling for government travelers, set before taxes, not a market price, but it sits close to the rates the city's larger hotels charge.

What this means for a stay in Los Angeles

For a visitor, three choices move the price more than anything else on this page:

1. Where to sleep: in 2019 a Westside room cost $187.51⁶ more a night than the county average, and an airport-area room less than the average, in the fullest hotels of the county.³
2. When to come: December and January were the cheapest months before the pandemic, and July the dearest, about 18% above December.³⁸
3. Which night: listed prices for upcoming stays, as shown on October 24, 2026, were lowest for Sunday nights and highest for Monday nights.⁴⁷

On top of the rate comes the tax: 14% everywhere in the city, and up to 16% at the larger hotels if they pass on the assessment, which is about $35 on an average night in January-September 2026.⁴ Anyone budgeting a week should add the tax separately, because the average rates exclude it.

Los Angeles against other US markets

Before the pandemic Los Angeles charged well above the large-market average: in 2018 its county rate of $180.17 was $22.23⁶ above the average of the 25 largest US markets and 1.39⁶ times the US average of $129.83¹⁰. In 2025 the full-year US average for all hotels was $160.54⁶⁶, $46.75 below the January-June rate of City of Los Angeles hotels with 50 or more rooms; the two cover different hotels and months, so the gap is indicative only. The national price index for lodging away from home rose 12.5%⁶ between 2019 and 2025, half the rise in Los Angeles consumer prices.⁶⁷

On the federal allowance Los Angeles ranks lower. For fiscal year 2027 it sits in the lower third of nine large cities, seventh, $92.17⁶ below New York City and $56.75⁶ above Las Vegas.⁶⁴

Conclusions

1. The record rate is not a record in value. The $220.04 of January-June 2026 at city hotels with 50 or more rooms is the highest first half in four years, yet the $219.53 of January-September is 5.7% below the 2019 full-year county rate restated in January-September 2026 prices, $232.82; the hotel sets differ, so the gap is indicative, but on these measures the city's larger hotels charge less in real terms than the whole county did before the pandemic.⁶
2. The area moves the price more than the year. In 2019 Beverly Hills and the Westside charged $259.12 a night more than the Gateway Cities, while in 2020, the worst year of the series, the county rate fell by $41.44.³
3. The busiest hotels are not the dearest. The airport area holds the most rooms and was the fullest in 2019, at below-average rates, while the scarce Westside and beach rooms carry the highest rates.³
4. Events lift rates for a week; the year depends on visitors. A World Cup match week in June 2026 lifted the area rate 13.7% to $234.02, while the city expects its hotel and rental tax receipts for July 2025-June 2026 to end 0.6% below the year before, a second year of decline as international visitors stayed away.⁷
5. The bill is up to a sixth above the rate. The 14% tax, plus the 2% assessment where a hotel passes it on, adds up to $35.12 to an average January-September 2026 night, and the city line matters: rates run from 5% to 15.5% across the county.⁶²