Average Hotel Price in Rome, Italy (2026 Data)

Industry benchmark data put the average Rome hotel room at $279¹ (€247²) a night in 2025, the year of the Catholic Jubilee, with 74%² of rooms sold. That yearly figure hides a wide swing: in an industry panel, January to March 2025 averaged €184³ a room-night, against €251³ in July to September 2024, and on the night before Pope Francis' funeral in April 2025 daily industry data put the city's average rate at $397¹. On top of the room comes a city tourist tax of up to €10⁴ per person per night.

This page sets the official figures on Rome's hotels (guest nights and arrivals, hotels, rooms and beds by star rating, the tourist tax, the city's price indices for accommodation and for restaurants and accommodation) beside the room rates measured by hotel-industry panels. Money is shown in US dollars first, converted at each year's average euro rate, with euros in brackets. Further down: the dearest and cheapest seasons, what the Jubilee did and did not change, where the 72,843⁵ hotel rooms of the comune are, and how fast short-term rentals have grown beside them.

How much is a hotel in Rome

The best single answer is the average daily rate: the room revenue hotels earn divided by the rooms they sell. Industry benchmark data put the average hotel price per night in Rome in 2025 at €247², or $279¹ at the year's average exchange rate of 1.1300⁶ dollars per euro. That is the price of a room, not of a person, before the tourist tax, and it is an average over every class of hotel in the benchmark. Revenue per available room, which also counts the rooms left empty, was €183² ($207¹) in the same data.²

Room rates by quarter

In a quarterly industry panel, July to September 2024 averaged €251³ ($272¹) and January to March 2025 €184³ ($208¹) with 61.2%³ of rooms sold. For April to June 2025 it reported €295³ ($333¹) and 80.3%³ occupancy in mid-June, before the quarter had closed, so that value is partly an estimate. On those figures the spring quarter, which includes Easter, ran €111¹ above the winter one.³

In the benchmark data Rome ranked fourth among European markets by revenue per available room in 2025.² Both occupancy and average rates reached new peaks in 2025, with revenue per available room more than 40%⁷ above 2019 in real terms.⁷ In the same benchmark, the luxury segment's revenue per available room was 46%² above its 2019 level.² The Rome hotel average daily rate in 2025 therefore sits at the top of its own history, even if no public series lets a reader follow it year by year.

The average hotel price in Rome per night in 2024 is known only for the second half of that year, from the quarterly panel: €251³ in the summer quarter and €232³ in the autumn one, or about $272¹ and $251¹.³ Its forecast for July to September 2025, made in June 2025, was €256³, 2.0%¹ above the same quarter of 2024.³ All these rates exclude the city tax and average over every class and every night, so a specific booking can sit far above or below them.

Restaurant and lodging prices through 2026

No public body prints a monthly room rate for Rome, but the official consumer price index has a monthly series for accommodation services in the city, which follows the change in what guests pay for hotels and other lodging, not the level. On the new base (2025 average = 100) it went from 84.2⁸ in January 2026 to 120.5⁸ in May, 43.1%¹ higher, fell to 94.2⁸ in August and stood at 110.7⁸ in September.⁸ Against the same months of the Jubilee year it was 7.4%⁸ higher in March but 4.5%⁸ lower in August. Over a longer span, on the annual index (2015 = 100), accommodation prices in Rome rose 46.8%¹ from 2019 to 2025, and 0.8%⁹ in 2025 alone.⁹

A wider official index tracks restaurants and accommodation services together, including restaurants, cafés and lodging. In 2026 it climbed from 97.4¹⁰ in January to 107.7¹⁰ in May, a 10.6%¹ rise in four months, eased through the summer and rose again to 105.9¹⁰ in September.¹⁰ Because the index also covers restaurants and cafés, it shows the direction of prices through the year and moves less than the accommodation index.

Measured against the same month a year earlier, the index for restaurants and accommodation rose faster than prices in general from January to April 2026 and slower from May on. In February it was 4.2%¹⁰ higher than in February 2025, while all prices in Rome rose 1.6%¹⁰; by September the order had reversed, 2.0%¹⁰ against 4.3%¹⁰. The months compared with are those of the Jubilee year.

Forecasts made for 2026

In June 2025 the quarterly industry panel forecast €183³ ($207¹) for January to March 2026, €293³ ($331¹) for April to June and €257³ ($290¹) for July to September, each within €2¹ of the year before.³ Those periods have now passed; the table below shows the forecasts as they were made, not results. For April to June 2026 a different industry panel measured Rome's average rate at €214.37¹¹ ($248.11¹ at the January-October 2026 average exchange rate¹²) a room-night;¹¹ its sample and method differ, so it is not comparable with the forecast or with the 2025 quarterly rates. The latest forecast of the average hotel price per night in Rome in 2026, presented in January 2026, puts the average rate up only 0.2%¹³ on 2025 and occupancy up 0.55¹³ points, to 73.25%¹³.

The Jubilee and the papal funeral

The Jubilee year brought more hotel guests, but not many more. Hotel arrivals in the Rome metropolitan area rose 3.6%¹ in 2025, to 9.09 million¹, and hotel nights by only 0.4%¹.¹⁴ The count for all accommodation grew far more: arrivals in all tourist accommodation in the area rose from 11.49 million¹ to 15.16 million¹, up 31.9%¹, and nights in all accommodation 18.6%¹.¹⁴ Arrivals outside hotels went from 2.72 million¹ to 6.07 million¹ in one year, a step that matches the 2025 jump in counted holiday-home beds and may partly reflect wider counting of rentals rather than new demand. The hotel months did not move together. January 2025 hotel arrivals were 5.6%¹ above January 2024, while hotel nights recorded for the month were 49.5%¹ higher; May 2025 arrivals were 21.5%¹ lower than in May 2024, and October brought a rebound of 11.4%¹.¹⁵

The year's highest hotel prices up to May came on single nights around the papal funeral.¹⁶ On April 25, 2025, the night before the funeral, daily industry data showed Rome's hotels selling 88.8%¹⁶ of their rooms at an average of €351.13¹⁶ ($397¹): the highest of 2025 up to that date and the eighth-highest daily rate on record.¹⁶ In central Rome the next night, the average rate reached €786.89¹⁶ ($889¹), 42.1%¹⁶ more than a year earlier, and the conclave that followed had 84.2%¹⁶ of rooms already booked for its first day, May 7.¹⁶

Guest nights by month

Across the twelve months of 2025, April was the busiest month for hotel nights, 3.52 million¹, and August the quietest, 2.38 million¹.¹⁵ The busiest month had only 1.48¹ times the nights of the quietest. January to April 2025 show 4.7¹ to 5.0¹ nights per guest, against 2.7¹ to 3.2¹ from June to November, a gap that points to a counting effect rather than a change in how long people stay.¹⁵

The mix of guests changes with the season too. Foreign visitors made up 77.0%¹ of hotel arrivals in October 2025, while in December Italians were 40.9%¹ of check-ins, the largest share of the year.¹⁵

Record demand behind the prices

Hotels in the Rome metropolitan area sold a record 32.61 million¹ guest nights in 2025, against 24.48 million¹ in 2019, a rise of 33.2%¹.¹⁴ The pandemic years show how deep the fall was: 5.43 million¹ nights in 2020 and 7.00 million¹ in 2021. The straight-line trend below, fitted on every year since 2015 including the pandemic, is our calculation, not a forecast.

Arrivals tell a different story from nights. Hotel check-ins in 2025 were still just below their 2019 level, 9.09 million¹ against 9.24 million¹, 1.6%¹ fewer.¹⁴ Nights per arrival rose from 2.65¹ in 2019 to 3.67¹ in 2022 and were 3.59¹ in 2025. A jump of that size between two years, which then holds, more likely reflects a change in how stays are counted than a change in how long guests stay, so the gap between nights and arrivals should be read with care.

Foreign guests

Rome's hotels live on foreign visitors. Guests from abroad spent 75.0%¹ of all hotel nights in 2025, up from 69.8%¹ in 2019; in 2021 the share had dropped to 38.1%¹.¹⁴ Across 2025, 6.50 million¹ hotel arrivals came from abroad and 2.59 million¹ from within Italy.¹⁵

Which hotels sell the nights

Upscale hotels take most of the business. In 2025, 4- and 5-star hotels sold 23.63 million¹ nights, 72.5%¹ of the total, and 47.9%¹ more than in 2019. 3-star hotels and residences sold 7.81 million¹, 7.9%¹ fewer than in 2024, and 1- and 2-star hotels 1.17 million¹, down 27.1%¹.¹⁴ The top class also records the most nights per arrival, 3.79¹, against 2.81¹ in the cheapest.¹⁴

Of every ten hotel nights sold in the Rome area in 2025, about seven were in a 4- or 5-star hotel. 3-star hotels and residences sold 24.0%¹ of all nights and the two lowest classes together 3.6%¹.¹⁴ The market-wide average rate is weighted toward the upper classes.

Hotels by star rating

The comune of Rome counted 1,708⁵ hotels and tourist residences in 2025, with 72,843⁵ rooms and 147,514⁵ beds, an average of 42.6¹ rooms per property.⁵ The 3-star class has the most hotels, 571⁵, but the 4-star class has the most rooms, 37,724⁵, or 51.8%¹ of the total. Together the 3- and 4-star classes hold 76.3%¹ of all hotel rooms.⁵

Hotel size rises with class up to 4 stars; 5-star hotels are slightly smaller than 4-star ones. A 1-star hotel in Rome has 12.0¹ rooms on average and a 3-star 31.2¹, while a 4-star has 79.9¹ and a 5-star 72.4¹.⁵ That is why the 472⁵ four-star hotels, fewer than the 3-star ones, hold more than half of all rooms. At the other end, the 1- and 2-star classes together have 487¹ hotels but only 6,925¹ rooms, 9.5%¹ of the total, so a budget room in Rome is scarcer than the number of budget hotels suggests.

Two decades of hotel growth

The stock grew slowly and steadily for two decades: from 845⁵ hotels in 2002 to 1,299⁵ in 2023, 454¹ more, while rooms rose 40.8%¹.⁵ In 2024 the official count then jumped by 363¹ hotels and 13,684¹ rooms in a single year, 27.9%¹ more hotels, a step far larger than any year before.⁵ Over the ten years from 2015 to 2025 the official room count rose from 55,111⁵ to 72,843⁵, 32.2%¹, and most of that came in the 2024 step, which looks more like a change in what is counted than a burst of openings. About 1,600⁷ new rooms are in the pipeline.⁷ The trend lines here are therefore fitted on 2002-2023 only, and the 2024-2025 counts are shown in the table below.

Hotels grew faster than rooms, because the newer properties are smaller on average. In 2002 the average hotel in the comune had 49.8¹ rooms; by 2023 it had 45.6¹.⁵

Five-star hotels multiplied. Rome had 16⁵ five-star hotels in 2002, 49⁵ in 2019 and 98⁵ in 2025, 6.1¹ times as many.⁵ Luxury hotels' revenue per available room was 46%² above its 2019 level in 2025, and Rome took 23%² of all hotel investment in Italy that year.² More luxury rooms in the mix can lift the city-wide average rate even when no single hotel changes its price.

The table below shows the classes year by year since 2019, including the 2024 step. Every class grew in 2024: the 4-star count went from 367⁵ to 462⁵ and the 5-star count from 61⁵ to 99⁵, then held almost flat in 2025.⁵ The 1-star count went from 147⁵ in 2019 to 195⁵ in 2025.

Hotels and short-term rentals

Hotels no longer have most of the city's tourist beds. Of the 419,238⁵ beds counted in all tourist accommodation in the comune in 2025, hotels and tourist residences had 35.2%¹ and holiday homes and apartments 44.2%¹.⁵ Holiday-home beds grew from 2,084⁵ in 2002 to 185,474⁵ in 2025, and the 2025 figure is 2.6¹ times the 2024 one. Hotels still sold most nights: 58.2%¹ of all accommodation nights in the metropolitan area in 2025, down from 71.2%¹ in 2019.¹⁴

Over two decades the two curves crossed. Hotel beds rose 69.8%¹ between 2002 and 2025, while holiday-home beds multiplied about 89¹ times.⁵ Most of that rise came in the last two years shown. A one-year step like the 2025 one may partly reflect more complete counting of existing rentals, as with hotels in 2024; the figures are shown as published.

The city's own accommodation register shows the same shift. In June 2025 it listed 33,660¹⁷ places to stay, of which 1,008¹⁷ were hotels, 3.0%¹ of the entries, against 20,482¹⁷ short-term tourist lets, 20.3¹ for every hotel, and 6,696¹⁷ holiday homes and apartments.¹⁷

Where Rome's hotels are

Rome's hotels crowd into the center. Municipio I, the historic center from the Colosseum to the Vatican walls and Termini, holds 728¹⁷ of the 1,008¹⁷ hotels in the city register, 72.2%¹, and 55.9%¹ of their rooms.¹⁷ It also has 56¹⁷ of the register's five-star hotels; only Municipio II, around Villa Borghese and Parioli, has others (3¹⁷). Hotels in the outer municipi are fewer but larger: in Municipio XIII (Aurelio), the average register hotel has 118.5¹ rooms, against 38.1¹ in the center.¹⁷

Outside the center, the next largest hotel areas are Municipio II with 68¹⁷ hotels, Municipio XIII with 34¹⁷ and Municipio IX, which includes the EUR district, with 30¹⁷. Every other municipio has between 7¹⁷ and 25¹⁷ hotels.

Size differs as much as numbers. The 7¹⁷ hotels of Municipio XI have 1,661¹⁷ rooms between them, an average of 237.3¹ each, while central hotels are small: 38.1¹ rooms on average.¹⁷

The tourist tax on top of the room

The room rate is not the whole bill. Every guest who is not exempt pays the city's contributo di soggiorno, set per person per night by the type and class of accommodation and charged for at most 10⁴ consecutive nights in the same place.⁴ The Rome tourist tax per person per night in 2026 at a hotel runs from €4.00⁴ ($4.52¹) in a 1-star hotel to €6.00⁴ ($6.78¹) in a 3-star, €7.50⁴ ($8.47¹) in a 4-star and €10.00⁴ ($11.30¹) in a 5-star; these rates have applied to every night since October 1, 2023, whenever the stay was booked.¹⁹ B&Bs and short-term rentals pay €6.00⁴, hostels €3.50⁴ and campsites €3.00⁴. The tax is collected by the property and is due whatever the room rate, so it weighs more on a cheap room than on an expensive one. Campsites charge for at most 5⁴ nights instead of 10.⁴

For a couple, the tax adds up quickly. Two adults spending three nights in a 3-star hotel pay €36¹ ($40.68¹); two adults on a 10-night stay in a 5-star hotel pay the maximum of €200¹ ($226.00¹).⁴ In a 4-star hotel the tax for two, €15¹ a night, equals 6.1%¹ of the 2025 average room rate. The rates were last raised in 2023: the 3-star rate went from €4²⁰ to €6⁴, up 50%¹, and the 5-star rate from €7²⁰ to €10⁴.²⁰

How crowded the city is

Counting all tourist accommodation, the city of Rome recorded 18.34²¹ tourist nights per resident in 2025, against 10.98²¹ in 2019, 1.67¹ times as many; in 2020 the figure had fallen to 2.32²¹.

What this means for a trip

For a traveler, the numbers point to three choices that move the price. The first is the season: in the quarterly industry panel, January to March 2025 was the lowest-priced quarter, and April to June, as reported in mid-June, the highest.³ The second is the calendar of the Church: in daily industry data the eve of the papal funeral was the highest-priced night of 2025 up to May 1.¹⁶ The third is the neighborhood: the historic center has most of the hotels and all but 3¹⁷ of the register's five-star properties, while the outer municipi have fewer but larger hotels.¹⁷

The total budget also includes the tourist tax, charged per person and not per room, so families and groups pay proportionally more than a single traveler in the same room: €6⁴ to €10⁴ per person per night at a 3- to 5-star hotel. Travelers who can move their dates by a few weeks, or stay outside the historic center, have more room to pay less than the average.

Rome compared with Milan and Italy

In industry benchmark data for calendar 2025, Rome earned more per hotel room than Milan: its revenue per available room of €183² was 1.14¹ times Milan's €160², and its average rate €31¹ higher than Milan's €216²; Italy as a whole averaged €159² in revenue per available room.²

Conclusions

1. A Rome hotel room cost about $279¹ a night in 2025 in industry benchmark data. That is €247² for calendar 2025; a quarterly panel ranged from €184³ in January to March 2025 to €295³ reported for April to June, and its January 2026 forecast for 2026 moves the yearly rate by only 0.2%¹³.
2. The top prices came on single nights. In daily industry data the eve of the papal funeral reached €351.13¹⁶, the highest of 2025 up to May 1, and central Rome reached €786.89¹⁶ the next night.
3. Foreign guests carry Rome's hotels. Visitors from abroad spent 75.0%¹ of hotel nights in 2025, up from 69.8%¹ in 2019.
4. Luxury hotels multiplied. Five-star hotels rose from 16⁵ to 98⁵, and 4- and 5-star hotels now sell 72.5%¹ of hotel nights.
5. Hotels grew little in the Jubilee year. Hotel arrivals rose 3.6%¹ in 2025; counted arrivals in all tourist accommodation rose 31.9%¹, likely in part through wider counting of rentals, and hotels' share of nights fell from 71.2%¹ in 2019 to 58.2%¹.