Short term rental statistics and data: United States - California
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Properties

There are 129805 short term rentals properties in California
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Hosts

In this area there are 65594 unique hosts and 69522 Superhosts
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Instant Booking

42535 listings in California have Instant Booking turned on.
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Reviews

All California listings received 9.814.551 reviews.

MonthAvailabilityMedium Price
November 202550.11%€ 221.63
December 202567.76%€ 234.13
January 202679.76%€ 238.29
February 202684.6%€ 247.18
March 202687.86%€ 252.7
April 202687.26%€ 254.94
May 202688.35%€ 258.02
June 202689.07%€ 267.72
July 202682.65%€ 273.52
August 202690.93%€ 283.4
September 202696.36%€ 278.1


In the next year, in California, the short term rental higher medium price is € 283.4, and the higher medium price looking only at available listings is € 282.92. Instead the lowest medium price is € 221.63 and the lowest medium price of available listings is € 232.2.
Availability of short term rental available properties in California from November 2025 to September 2026 varies between 50.11% and 96.36%.
Consider that many short term rental hosts do not open their booking calendars too far in the future. Opening your calendar for 12 months or more could be a great business opportunity.
Note: we collect and update data every day and short term rentals prices and availabilities may vary on every data update.

Properties and rooms

In the "California" area 26.4% of short term rental properties are classified as Entire rental unit, 25.6% are classified as Entire home, 16% are classified as Private room in home, 10.4% are classified as Entire guesthouse, 5.8% are classified as Entire guest suite, 3% are classified as Entire condo, and 12.8% of short term rental properties are classified in minors categories.

Rooms in non exclusive use properties are divided according to the following types: 100% are "Private rooms", 0% are "Hotel rooms" and 0% are "Shared rooms"
Bedrooms and beds

Of those properties 55% have 1 bedroom, 22% have 2 bedrooms, 9.2% have 3 bedrooms, 8.2% have bedrooms, 3.6% have 4 bedrooms, and properties having a different number of bedrooms are 2%.

Also, the number of beds in each property varies as follows: 10% have 0 beds, 50.6% have 1 bed, 24.4% have 2 beds, 9.4% have 3 beds, 3.6% have 4 beds, and all other properties are about 2%.

98.6% have beds, 1.2% have Real bed beds, 0.2% have Others,
Bathrooms

The number of bathrooms for property is distributed as follows: 18% have bathrooms, 63% have 1.00 bathroom, 10.4% have 2.00 bathrooms, 6.2% have 5.00 bathrooms, and properties having a different number of bathrooms are 2.4%.

Note: A half bath value means it is just a toilet and sink. There isn't a shower or tub in it, so a house with 1.5 baths has one full bathroom and one-half bath.
Max guests capacity

Regarding the number of people that the accommodation facilities are able to accommodate, in the "California" area's, we have the following segments: 8% can accomodate up to 1 guest guests, 40% can accomodate up to 2 guests guests, 8.4% can accomodate up to 3 guests guests, 22.2% can accomodate up to 4 guests guests, 5.6% can accomodate up to 5 guests guests, 8.4% can accomodate up to 6 guests guests, 2.8% can accomodate up to 8 guests guests, and 4.6% can accomodate a different number of guests.
Cancellation policies

"California" area's hosts apply cancellation policies for their properties as follows: 40.8% apply Firm policy, 28% apply Moderate policy, 17.8% apply Flexible policy, 11.2% apply Strict policy, and hosts applying different policies are 2.2%.