Short term rental statistics and data: Sri Lanka - Southern Province
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Properties

There are 4186 short term rentals properties in Southern Province
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Hosts

In this area there are 2538 unique hosts and 855 Superhosts
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Instant Booking

2087 listings in Southern Province have Instant Booking turned on.
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Reviews

All Southern Province listings received 65.568 reviews.

MonthAvailabilityMedium Price
July 202579.3%€ 73.72
August 202585.58%€ 74.77
September 202589.97%€ 76.53
October 202590.16%€ 83.18
November 202589.71%€ 88.58
December 202585.99%€ 84.84
January 202684.13%€ 90.22
February 202687.64%€ 92.53
March 202690.54%€ 88.44
April 202693.09%€ 83.86
May 202698.2%€ 82.03


In the next year, in Southern Province, the short term rental higher medium price is € 92.53, and the higher medium price looking only at available listings is € 88.13. Instead the lowest medium price is € 73.72 and the lowest medium price of available listings is € 67.94.
Availability of short term rental available properties in Southern Province from July 2025 to May 2026 varies between 79.3% and 98.2%.
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 "Southern Province" area 16.2% of short term rental properties are classified as Entire villa, 12.2% are classified as Entire home, 10% are classified as Entire rental unit, 9% are classified as Private room in home, 8.2% are classified as Private room in bed and breakfast, 7.2% are classified as Private room in villa, 4.6% are classified as Room in boutique hotel, 4% are classified as Private room in rental unit, 4% are classified as Room in hotel, 3% are classified as Entire condo, 2.8% are classified as Private room in guesthouse, 2.6% are classified as Entire bungalow, 2.6% are classified as Private room in nature lodge, and 13.6% 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 43.4% have 1 bedroom, 21.8% have 2 bedrooms, 18.4% have 3 bedrooms, 8.2% have 4 bedrooms, 3.4% have 5 bedrooms, 2.8% have 6 bedrooms, and properties having a different number of bedrooms are 2%.

Also, the number of beds in each property varies as follows: 12% have 0 beds, 30% have 1 bed, 23.2% have 2 beds, 18.6% have 3 beds, 8.4% have 4 beds, 3.4% have 5 beds, 2.8% have 6 beds, and all other properties are about 1.6%.

99.8% have beds, 0.2% have Others,
Bathrooms

The number of bathrooms for property is distributed as follows: 31.6% have bathrooms, 22.2% have 1.00 bathroom, 18.2% have 2.00 bathrooms, 8% have 3.00 bathrooms, 3.6% have 4.00 bathrooms, 13.2% have 5.00 bathrooms, and properties having a different number of bathrooms are 3.2%.

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 "Southern Province" area's, we have the following segments: 3% can accomodate up to 10 guests guests, 2.4% can accomodate up to 12 guests guests, 36.2% can accomodate up to 2 guests guests, 6.8% can accomodate up to 3 guests guests, 20.2% can accomodate up to 4 guests guests, 4.4% can accomodate up to 5 guests guests, 13.2% can accomodate up to 6 guests guests, 6.8% can accomodate up to 8 guests guests, and 7% can accomodate a different number of guests.
Cancellation policies

"Southern Province" area's hosts apply cancellation policies for their properties as follows: 66.8% apply Flexible policy, 15.4% apply Moderate policy, 10.2% apply Strict policy, 7.4% apply Firm policy, and hosts applying different policies are 0.2%.